将家长教育和劳动力培训添加到Head Start计划中,是否会促进或干扰儿童的发展?
Terri J Sabol1, Elise Chor2, Teresa Eckrich Sommer3
1School of Education and Social Policy, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA.
Child development
|July 31, 2024
概括
结合家长教育和Head Start的CareerAdvance计划,与单独的Head Start相比,儿童发展没有显著差异. 无论父母是否接受教育,孩子的成绩都保持稳定.
科学领域:
- 幼儿教育 儿童早期教育
- 发展心理学 发展心理学
- 社会经济干预措施 社会经济干预
背景情况:
- 两代计划旨在改善父母和孩子的结果.
- 职业发展计划将父母的医疗保健教育与儿童的Head Start项目整合在一起.
- 关于这些综合计划对儿童发育的长期影响的研究有限.
研究的目的:
- 评估CareerAdvance计划对儿童学术,语言,数学和抑制控制技能的影响.
- 为了比较CareerAdvance计划中的儿童成果与仅接受Head Start的匹配对照组.
- 评估三年时间内的发展轨迹.
主要方法:
- 在CareerAdvance组的147名儿童和对照组的139名儿童的长度研究.
- 2011年至2018年间在俄克拉荷马州图尔萨收集的数据.
- 分析重点是学术,语言,数学和抑制性控制结果.
主要成果:
- 与单独的Head Start相比,CareerAdvance计划没有产生明显不同的儿童结果.
- 儿童在学术,语言,数学和抑制控制方面的发展轨迹没有受到父母参与该计划的负面影响.
- 当父母从事教育活动时,没有观察到对儿童发展的短期不良影响.
结论:
- 像CareerAdvance这样的综合两代计划可能不会为儿童发展提供额外的短期好处,超出像Head Start这样的现有计划.
- 父母参与教育似乎不会在短期内对孩子的发展进步产生负面影响.
- 需要进一步的研究来探索两代干预措施的潜在长期益处或特定子组影响.
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