Head Start and urban children's school readiness: a birth cohort study in 18 cities.
Head Start and urban children's school readiness: a birth cohort study in 18 cities.
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启蒙和城市儿童的入学准备：18 个城市的出生队列研究。
DOI：
10.1037/a0020784
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发表时间：
2011
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4
通讯作者：
Waldfogel,Jane
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作者：
Zhai,Fuhua;Brooks-Gunn,Jeanne;Waldfogel,Jane
我们使用了出生队列研究的纵向数据，脆弱家庭和儿童福利研究，以调查5岁城市儿童（N= 2，803; 18个城市）的大样本和多样化样本中的学前教育和入学准备之间的联系。我们发现，提前上课与认知能力和社交能力的增强以及注意力问题的减少有关，但与内化或外化行为问题的减少无关。这些发现对模型规格（包括具有城市固定效应和倾向评分匹配的模型）具有鲁棒性。此外，领先优势的影响因参考组而异。与父母照顾或其他非父母照顾相比，Head Start与认知发展的改善有关，也与社会能力的改善（与父母照顾相比）和注意力问题的减少（与其他非父母照顾相比）有关。相比之下，与幼儿园前或其他中心护理的出勤率相比，学前教育的出勤率与认知能力的提高无关，但与社会能力的提高、注意力的减少和外化行为问题的减少有关（与其他中心护理的出勤率相比）。这些关联不受儿童性别或种族/民族的影响。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2022阿帕，保留所有权利）
We used longitudinal data from a birth cohort study, the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, to investigate the links between Head Start and school readiness in a large and diverse sample of urban children at age 5 (N= 2,803; 18 cities). We found that Head Start attendance was associated with enhanced cognitive ability and social competence and reduced attention problems but not reduced internalizing or externalizing behavior problems. These findings were robust to model specifications (including models with city-fixed effects and propensity-scoring matching). Furthermore, the effects of Head Start varied by the reference group. Head Start was associated with improved cognitive development when compared with parental care or other nonparental care, as well as improved social competence (compared with parental care) and reduced attention problems (compared with other nonparental care). In contrast, compared with attendance at pre-kindergarten or other center-based care, Head Start attendance was not associated with cognitive gains but with improved social competence and reduced attention and externalizing behavior problems (compared with attendance at other center-based care). These associations were not moderated by child gender or race/ethnicity.(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)