The Impact of Home Culture, Parental Involvement and Attitudes on Cognitive Skills of Immigrant Students in Denmark

Using data from three Danish PISA-studies, I conduct an exploratory investigation of the relation between home culture and parental involvement and attitudes towards integration and school on immigrants test scores. The result indicate that only a few of the indicators investigated in this study can be shown to influence student test scores. Cultural communication is shown to be the factor of home culture that is most closely related to higher test scores.