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Developing and validating a measure of parental knowledge about early math development.

Ashli-Ann Douglas¹, Camille Msall¹, Bethany Rittle-Johnson¹

¹Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States.

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Summary

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Parents’ knowledge of early math skills, including numeracy and patterning, is key for supporting preschooler development. New measures were developed to assess this knowledge, aiding in understanding the Home Math Environment (HME).

Keywords:

early math development home math environment home numeracy development knowledge of child development parent math support patterning knowledge preschool skills

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Area of Science:

Child Development
Educational Psychology
Measurement in Education

Background:

Parental knowledge of early math skills influences the Home Math Environment (HME).
Understanding parents' knowledge of numeracy and patterning is crucial for supporting preschool math development.
Existing measures may not fully capture the scope of parental knowledge in early math.

Purpose of the Study:

To systematically develop and validate measures of parents' knowledge about preschool numeracy and patterning skills.
To assess the psychometric properties, including reliability and validity, of the newly developed measures.
To provide a tool for researchers to better understand the relationship between parental knowledge and the HME.

Main Methods:

Iterative development and refinement of parent knowledge measures across five studies.
Recruitment of 616 U.S. parents of 3- to 5-year-olds.
Psychometric analyses including internal consistency, test-retest reliability, construct, convergent, and discriminant validity.

Main Results:

The newly developed measures demonstrated adequate internal consistency and validity.
Measures were positively associated with parents' beliefs about their children's numeracy and patterning abilities.
The study successfully created reliable tools to assess parental knowledge of key early math concepts.

Conclusions:

The developed measures meet standards for adequate assessment tools.
These measures can enhance research on parental knowledge and its impact on the Home Math Environment.
Improved understanding of parental knowledge can inform interventions to support early math development.