Summarize the environmental factors that enhance academic achievement during the teenage years

What will be an ideal response?

Adolescent achievement is the result of a long history of cumulative effects. Early on, positive educational environments, both family and school, lead to personal traits that support achievement—intelligence, confidence in one's own abilities, the desire to succeed, and high educational aspirations. Nevertheless, improving an unfavorable environment can foster resilience among poorly performing young people. Some environmental factors that enhance achievement during the teenage years include:
– Child-rearing practices. Includes authoritative parenting, joint parent–adolescent decision making, and parent involvement in the adolescent's education
– Peer influences. Includes peer valuing of and support for high achievement
– School characteristics. Includes teachers who are warm and supportive, develop personal relationships with parents, and show them how to support their teenager's learning; learning activities that encourage high-level thinking; and active student participation in learning activities and classroom decision making
– Employment schedule. Includes job commitment limited to less than 15 hours per week and high-quality vocational education for non-college-bound adolescents