Parents' Perceptions of the Malleability of their Child's Academic Competencies

This study set out to examine parents' perceptions of the malleability of their child's academic competencies. A total of 97 mothers and fathers were asked to rate their child's potential for improving her/his competencies in mathematics and Finnish, using both intrapersonal and interpersonal criteria in their ratings. These two criteria were found to correlate closely with each other, suggesting that parents resorted to the school's normative...