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The Relationship Of Prior Ability And Family Characteristics To School Attendance And School Achievement In Rural Guatemala, Marc Irwin, Patrice L. Engle, Charles Yarbrough, Robert E. Klein, John Townsend

Psychology and Child Development

Data from a longitudinal study in progress were used to investigate the relationships between intellectual ability prior to schooling opportunities and characteristics of family and home environment, and elementary school attendance and performance in 3 rural Guatemalan communities. Pre-school- ing mental test performances, family SES level, and indices of parental values concerning education were all associated with attending or not attending school. Length of school attendance was predicted by pre-schooling mental test scores for girls and by family SES level and parental values for boys. Age at first enrollment was predicted by both pre-schooling mental test scores and family SES …