超越时间点估计:使用增长模型来了解什么时候发生PreK融合,如何以及哪些技能
Meghan McCormick1, Emily Hanno1, Christina Weiland2
1MDRC, New York, New York, USA.
Child development
|April 25, 2025
概括
高质量的学前教育 (PreK) 招生提高了早期的学术技能,特别是语言和数学,这些技能持续到一年级. 执行职能技能最初与学前教育入学率的关联较小.
科学领域:
- 儿童发展 儿童发展
- 教育心理学教育心理学
- 幼儿教育 儿童早期教育
背景情况:
- 高质量的早期教育计划对于认知和社会情感发展至关重要.
- 了解学前教育 (PreK) 对技能发展轨迹的长期影响至关重要.
- 需要进行研究,以澄清PreK如何影响早期小学阶段的各种学术和非学术技能.
研究的目的:
- 检查高质量的学前教育入学与儿童的学术,执行功能和社会情感技能之间的关联.
- 从幼儿园到一年级,追踪这些技能协会的持续性.
- 分析随着时间的推移,PreK入学者和非入学者之间的技能趋同模式.
主要方法:
- 纵向研究设计追踪了422名儿童从幼儿园到一年级.
- 分析学前教育入学率与学术 (语言,数学),执行功能和社会情感技能增长之间的关联.
- 在不同的时间点,比较PreK入学者和非入学者之间的技能趋同.
主要成果:
- 幼儿园招生与语言和数学技能之间的关联一直持续到一年级.
- 语言技能融合在一年级比幼儿园更大;数学融合在幼儿园更大.
- 在第一年级执行职能方面没有发现任何显著的关联,大多数趋同发生在那一年.
结论:
- 高质量的预科教学表明,对早期小学语言和数学技能有持续的好处.
- 预科对执行职能的影响似乎是以后发展的,在一年级发生的趋同.
- 幼儿教育在塑造基础学术技能方面发挥着重要作用,不同技能领域的发展轨迹各不相同.
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