Abstract
Organizer: 全球华人计算机教育应用学会; Over the past few decades,researchers and educators strongly suggest that families have a major influence on their children's achievement in school and through life.Scarce research is available on parental behaviors based on various ethnic beliefs which play a critical role in children's academic achievement.The researchers designed an instrument to investigate the impacts of parental behaviors on children's education of South Asian Americans residing in Southwest Florida.The findings may help educational stakeholders to compare parental behaviors,cultural differences,and language barriers in order to develop policies and programs across various ethnic and racial groups to enhance students' educational achievement.A minimum of 0.70 Cronbach alpha coefficient of reliability was duly satisfied.Prior to undertaking a mixed methods study on parental behaviors in children's academic achievement in the United States,a pilot study was conducted to assess the feasibility of survey question
