A Longitudinal and Cross-sectional Study about the Parent-teacher Interaction of the Female Southeast Asian Immigrants and the School Life of Their Children

The difference tended to be larger for students at the sixth grade. 2. The target sample students were not different from the local students on learning efficacy, learning methods/habits/attitudes, and self efficacy. 3. The relationship between achievement and attitudes were about .2 to .3.

The coefficients were not different between target sample and local sample, but between the areas of different industrialization. 4. The Southeast Asian female new immigrants were not different from the local mothers on parenthood, spous relationship, and housework loading. However, they tend to be more regressive on child-punishing, spouse conflict management, and supporint of house work from spouse.

As the third year of the project is coming, we are facing the following challenges: lack of research assistants, questionnaire disturbance, and the deficit of project grant. We have proposed strategies to cope with the challenges.