High-Quality Preschool: The Socioeconomic Composition of Preschool Classrooms and Children's Learning

Autor:	Douglas D. Ready, Jeanne L. Reid
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	media_common.quotation_subject education Social change Child development Education Developmental psychology Rating scale Developmental and Educational Psychology Cognitive development Quality (business) Psychology Association (psychology) Socioeconomic status Composition (language) media_common
Zdroj:	Early Education & Development. 24:1082-1111
ISSN:	1556-6935 1040-9289
DOI:	10.1080/10409289.2012.757519
Popis:	Research Findings: As policymakers expand access to preschool, the sociodemographic composition of preschool classrooms will become increasingly important. These efforts may create programs that increase the concentration of children from low-income families or, alternatively, foster the creation of socioeconomically diverse preschool classrooms. What effect the creation of such contexts would have on very young children remains unclear. Using multilevel methods and data on 2,966 children in 704 prekindergarten classrooms, this study explores the relationship between socioeconomic classroom composition and children's social and cognitive development. The results indicate positive associations between the mean socioeconomic status (SES) of the class and children's receptive language, expressive language, and mathematics learning, regardless of children's own sociodemographic backgrounds and the characteristics of their classrooms. However, the analyses indicate no association between the development of soc...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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