Janine Bempechat
Biographic Data
| ID | 229562 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janine Bempechat |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janine |
| FAMILY NAME | Bempechat |
| SIGNATURE | BEMPECHAT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wheelock College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0554-7534 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“Just for the Sake of Giving It: ” An Exploration of Elementary Teachers’ Beliefs About Homework Practices
Homework is a common practice in US schools, with much discussion of its potential benefits and drawbacks. But there is more to learn about the complexities of teachers’ beliefs about homework’s purpose, benefits, and challenges. This interview study with elementary teachers uses a beliefs framework to explore beliefs and their influence on perceptions of homework. Findings reveal a web of tensions around homework broadly, with teachers holding c…
“I Haven’t had That Conversation Yet”: How Homework is (or isn’t) Addressed in Teacher Preparation
In this mixed methods case study, we explored the extent to which novice teachers in one institution were prepared to respond to homework-related concerns, be these in favor of or against the practice. We queried three sources of information: teacher educators, methods course syllabi, and national/state accreditation standards for teacher preparation. Findings revealed several key themes, including challenges inherent in guiding preservice teache…
Academic Socialization From an “Informed Distance”: Low-Income Chinese American Adolescents’ Perceptions of Their Immigrant Parents’ Educational Messages
Background/Context: Despite research that has rebutted the tiger parent stereotype, the perception that Asian immigrant parents enact overly strict and controlling educational practices continues to be widespread and entrenched. This stereotype is problematic because it constrains the understanding of Asian Americans to a one-dimensional group and engenders a false narrative of Asian American educational success as expected. Purpose/Objective/Res…
Introduction: The Emergence of New Civics
New Civics has emerged in the last three decades in order to expand the definition and scope of ‘participation’ beyond elections and voting, to include the wide range of civic activities that contribute to effective democracy. The emphasis is on agency and responsibility, critical thinking and the skills for informal as well as formal action. The implications for both formal and informal education include going beyond knowledge of local political…
Supplemental Material for The Relation Between Parents’ Involvement in Children’s Schooling and Children’s Adjustment: A Meta-Analysis
My Mom Tells Me I Should Follow the Rules, That’s Why They Have Those Rules”: Perceptions of Parental Advice Giving Among Mexican-Heritage Adolescents
Relatively little research has examined the ways in which immigrant Latino parents can effectively support their adolescent children’s schooling. To address this gap, we conducted in-depth interviews with 32 Mexican-heritage 9th graders. Students identified parents’ advice giving as the most salient form of involvement. Parental advice emphasized the importance of persisting in school, avoiding hardship as experienced by parents, and exhibiting s…
What Makes Students Engaged in Learning? A Time-Use Study of Within- and Between-Individual Predictors of Emotional Engagement in Low-Performing High Schools
Building and using a social network: Nurture for low-income Chinese American adolescents' learning
Little research has examined how low-income Asian American children are supported to achieve well in school. The authors used the notion of social capital to study higher versus lower achieving Chinese adolescents from low-income backgrounds. They found that families of higher-achieving adolescents built and used more effectively three kinds of social networks in lieu of direct parental involvement: (a) designating a helper in and outside the hom…
Schooling, Peer Relations, and Family Life of Russian Adolescents
In the Russian Federation, a growing emphasis on individualism and a profusion of educational options create challenges and opportunities for adolescents making the transition to secondary school. To investigate Russian students' perspectives during this important developmental period, we conducted two openended interviews with 32 ninth graders and obtained achievement data from their teachers. Most students reported having autonomy regarding the…
Mexican-American Students’ Perceptions of Teachers’ Expectations: Do Perceptions Differ Depending on Student Achievement Levels
Beyond the Rhetoric: Understanding Achievement and Motivation in Catholic School Students
This study examines the achievement beliefs of urban adolescents enrolled in two Catholic high schools. Qualitative analysis of individual interviews revealed that these students endorse a strong sense of personal responsibility in their own learning, adhere to adaptive beliefs about difficulty and challenge in learning, and perceive their schools as caring environments in which teachers take a deep interest in both their academic and psychosocia…
The Motivational Benefits of Homework: A Social-Cognitive Perspective
This article argues that, as a pedagogical practice, homework plays a critical, long-term role in the development of children's achievement motivation. Homework provides children with time and experience to develop positive beliefs about achievement, as well as strategies for coping with mistakes, difficulties, and setbacks. This article reviews current research on achievement motivation and examines the ways parents and teachers encourage or inh…
Implicit theories of intelligence across academic domains: A study of meaning making in adolescents of Mexican descent
Research on beliefs about intelligence used questionnaires to characterize students as viewing intelligence as either a malleable quality of a fixed trait. In our study, regardless of the belief they endorsed, all students spoke about intelligence as malleable in subsequent interviews
The Socialization of Achievement in Poor and Minority Students: A Comparative Study
Ethnic similarities and differences in children's perceptions of their parents' educational socialization practices and attributions for success and failure, and the impact of these variables on mathematics achievement, were examined in a sample of 591 poor African American, Latino, Indo-Chinese, and Caucasian fifth and sixth graders. Students completed the Educational Socialization Scale (ESS), the Sydney Attribution Scale (SAS), and the Wide Ra…
Personality correlates of career choice in the Kibbutz: A comparison between career and noncareer women
The Motivational Benefits of Homework: A Social-Cognitive Perspective
This article argues that, as a pedagogical practice, homework plays a critical, long-term role in the development of children's achievement motivation. Homework provides children with time and experience to develop positive beliefs about achievement, as well as strategies for coping with mistakes, difficulties, and setbacks. This article reviews current research on achievement motivation and examines the ways parents and teachers encourage or inh…
My Mom Tells Me I Should Follow the Rules, That’s Why They Have Those Rules”: Perceptions of Parental Advice Giving Among Mexican-Heritage Adolescents
Relatively little research has examined the ways in which immigrant Latino parents can effectively support their adolescent children’s schooling. To address this gap, we conducted in-depth interviews with 32 Mexican-heritage 9th graders. Students identified parents’ advice giving as the most salient form of involvement. Parental advice emphasized the importance of persisting in school, avoiding hardship as experienced by parents, and exhibiting s…
Beyond the Rhetoric: Understanding Achievement and Motivation in Catholic School Students
This study examines the achievement beliefs of urban adolescents enrolled in two Catholic high schools. Qualitative analysis of individual interviews revealed that these students endorse a strong sense of personal responsibility in their own learning, adhere to adaptive beliefs about difficulty and challenge in learning, and perceive their schools as caring environments in which teachers take a deep interest in both their academic and psychosocia…
What Makes Students Engaged in Learning? A Time-Use Study of Within- and Between-Individual Predictors of Emotional Engagement in Low-Performing High Schools
The Socialization of Achievement in Poor and Minority Students: A Comparative Study
Ethnic similarities and differences in children's perceptions of their parents' educational socialization practices and attributions for success and failure, and the impact of these variables on mathematics achievement, were examined in a sample of 591 poor African American, Latino, Indo-Chinese, and Caucasian fifth and sixth graders. Students completed the Educational Socialization Scale (ESS), the Sydney Attribution Scale (SAS), and the Wide Ra…
Mexican-American Students’ Perceptions of Teachers’ Expectations: Do Perceptions Differ Depending on Student Achievement Levels
Schooling, Peer Relations, and Family Life of Russian Adolescents
In the Russian Federation, a growing emphasis on individualism and a profusion of educational options create challenges and opportunities for adolescents making the transition to secondary school. To investigate Russian students' perspectives during this important developmental period, we conducted two openended interviews with 32 ninth graders and obtained achievement data from their teachers. Most students reported having autonomy regarding the…
Personality correlates of career choice in the Kibbutz: A comparison between career and noncareer women
The Socialization of Achievement in Poor and Minority Students: A Comparative Study
Ethnic similarities and differences in children's perceptions of their parents' educational socialization practices and attributions for success and failure, and the impact of these variables on mathematics achievement, were examined in a sample of 591 poor African American, Latino, Indo-Chinese, and Caucasian fifth and sixth graders. Students completed the Educational Socialization Scale (ESS), the Sydney Attribution Scale (SAS), and the Wide Ra…
Implicit theories of intelligence across academic domains: A study of meaning making in adolescents of Mexican descent
Research on beliefs about intelligence used questionnaires to characterize students as viewing intelligence as either a malleable quality of a fixed trait. In our study, regardless of the belief they endorsed, all students spoke about intelligence as malleable in subsequent interviews
The Motivational Benefits of Homework: A Social-Cognitive Perspective
This article argues that, as a pedagogical practice, homework plays a critical, long-term role in the development of children's achievement motivation. Homework provides children with time and experience to develop positive beliefs about achievement, as well as strategies for coping with mistakes, difficulties, and setbacks. This article reviews current research on achievement motivation and examines the ways parents and teachers encourage or inh…
Building and using a social network: Nurture for low-income Chinese American adolescents' learning
Little research has examined how low-income Asian American children are supported to achieve well in school. The authors used the notion of social capital to study higher versus lower achieving Chinese adolescents from low-income backgrounds. They found that families of higher-achieving adolescents built and used more effectively three kinds of social networks in lieu of direct parental involvement: (a) designating a helper in and outside the hom…
Schooling, Peer Relations, and Family Life of Russian Adolescents
In the Russian Federation, a growing emphasis on individualism and a profusion of educational options create challenges and opportunities for adolescents making the transition to secondary school. To investigate Russian students' perspectives during this important developmental period, we conducted two openended interviews with 32 ninth graders and obtained achievement data from their teachers. Most students reported having autonomy regarding the…
Mexican-American Students’ Perceptions of Teachers’ Expectations: Do Perceptions Differ Depending on Student Achievement Levels
Beyond the Rhetoric: Understanding Achievement and Motivation in Catholic School Students
This study examines the achievement beliefs of urban adolescents enrolled in two Catholic high schools. Qualitative analysis of individual interviews revealed that these students endorse a strong sense of personal responsibility in their own learning, adhere to adaptive beliefs about difficulty and challenge in learning, and perceive their schools as caring environments in which teachers take a deep interest in both their academic and psychosocia…
What Makes Students Engaged in Learning? A Time-Use Study of Within- and Between-Individual Predictors of Emotional Engagement in Low-Performing High Schools
My Mom Tells Me I Should Follow the Rules, That’s Why They Have Those Rules”: Perceptions of Parental Advice Giving Among Mexican-Heritage Adolescents
Relatively little research has examined the ways in which immigrant Latino parents can effectively support their adolescent children’s schooling. To address this gap, we conducted in-depth interviews with 32 Mexican-heritage 9th graders. Students identified parents’ advice giving as the most salient form of involvement. Parental advice emphasized the importance of persisting in school, avoiding hardship as experienced by parents, and exhibiting s…
Supplemental Material for The Relation Between Parents’ Involvement in Children’s Schooling and Children’s Adjustment: A Meta-Analysis
Introduction: The Emergence of New Civics
New Civics has emerged in the last three decades in order to expand the definition and scope of ‘participation’ beyond elections and voting, to include the wide range of civic activities that contribute to effective democracy. The emphasis is on agency and responsibility, critical thinking and the skills for informal as well as formal action. The implications for both formal and informal education include going beyond knowledge of local political…
Academic Socialization From an “Informed Distance”: Low-Income Chinese American Adolescents’ Perceptions of Their Immigrant Parents’ Educational Messages
Background/Context: Despite research that has rebutted the tiger parent stereotype, the perception that Asian immigrant parents enact overly strict and controlling educational practices continues to be widespread and entrenched. This stereotype is problematic because it constrains the understanding of Asian Americans to a one-dimensional group and engenders a false narrative of Asian American educational success as expected. Purpose/Objective/Res…
“I Haven’t had That Conversation Yet”: How Homework is (or isn’t) Addressed in Teacher Preparation
In this mixed methods case study, we explored the extent to which novice teachers in one institution were prepared to respond to homework-related concerns, be these in favor of or against the practice. We queried three sources of information: teacher educators, methods course syllabi, and national/state accreditation standards for teacher preparation. Findings revealed several key themes, including challenges inherent in guiding preservice teache…
“Just for the Sake of Giving It: ” An Exploration of Elementary Teachers’ Beliefs About Homework Practices
Homework is a common practice in US schools, with much discussion of its potential benefits and drawbacks. But there is more to learn about the complexities of teachers’ beliefs about homework’s purpose, benefits, and challenges. This interview study with elementary teachers uses a beliefs framework to explore beliefs and their influence on perceptions of homework. Findings reveal a web of tensions around homework broadly, with teachers holding c…
Psychology (14 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Parental Involvement in Education (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Pedagogy (7 works) · Academic achievement (5 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works)