El papel de los padres en el desarrollo de la competencia lectora de sus hijos
[The role of parents in developing their children's reading skills]
Mauro Mediavilla1 & José García Clavel2
1 University of Valencia & Institute of Economy of Barcelona
2 University of Murcia
This talk describes the research objectives and the main conclusions of the study on the influence of parents on the development of reading ability of their children, prepared from data from the 2009 edition of the PISA program (Program for International Student Assessment). Our analysis shows that not only do parents who enjoy reading have children who read better, but children read better precisely because their parents are enthusiastic readers.
The study is open access here.
Bio
Mauro Mediavilla is a professor at the Department of Applied Economics of the University of Valencia and associate researcher at the Institute of Economics of Barcelona. Award for the best doctoral thesis in Economics of Education. Assessor of l’Institut d’Educació Superior d’Amèrica Llatina i el Carib (UNESCO) and the Prometheus program of the governor of l’Equador. He has made some academic visits to the different countries: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Denmark and Equador.
José García Clavel is an associate professor at the Department of Quantitative Methods for Economics and Business at the University of Murcia. He was a visiting professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (University of Toronto) and the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (Mumbai). His recent research addresses the measurement of non-cognitive skills and its impact on educational processes.
