Diversity, child care quality, and developmental outcomes
Diversity, child care quality, and developmental outcomes
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DOI：
10.1016/j.ecresq.2003.09.003
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发表时间：
2003-01-01
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Cryer, D
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作者：
Burchinal, MR;Cryer, D
人们普遍认为，高质量的儿童保育能促进儿童的认知和社会发展，但有人质疑，高质量的保育是否取决于儿童的种族和文化背景。为了解决这个问题，二次分析的数据，从两个最大的研究儿童保育的经验，在美国，成本，质量和成果的研究和NICHD研究幼儿保育，测试是否儿童保育质量的标准措施是不可靠或有效的非洲裔美国人和讲英语的拉丁美洲儿童比白色儿童。广泛使用的儿童保育质量的措施表明，白色，非洲裔美国人和拉丁美洲儿童的可靠性和类似的水平的有效性。分析测试认知和社会技能是否与儿童保育质量，儿童和照顾者的种族之间的匹配，以及母亲和照顾者对育儿的信念之间的匹配。结果表明，来自所有三个民族的儿童在标准化评估中表现出较高的认知和社交技能水平，这些评估表明，当照顾者敏感和刺激时，这些评估可以预测学校的成功。儿童的技能并不总是与儿童和照顾者的种族是否匹配或母亲和照顾者对养育子女的信念是否相似有关。这两项大型研究表明，所有三个族裔群体的儿童都受益于对与学业成功有关的儿童成果的敏感和刺激性照顾。结果被解释为表明，全球层面的质量可能会反映在非常不同类型的做法，反映文化差异。(C)2003年爱思唯尔公司All rights reserved.
It is widely accepted that high quality child care enhances children's cognitive and social development, but some question whether what constitutes quality care depends on the child's ethnic and cultural background. To address this question, secondary analysis of data from the two largest studies of child care experiences in the United States, Cost, Quality, and Outcomes Study and the NICHD Study of Early Child Care, tested whether standard measures of child care quality were less reliable or valid for African-American and English-speaking Latino children than for white children. Widely used measures of child care quality showed comparably high levels of reliability and similar levels of validity for white, African-American, and Latino children. Analyses tested whether cognitive and social skills were related to child care quality, the match between child's and caregiver's ethnicity, and the match between the mother's and caregiver's beliefs about child-rearing. Results indicated children from all three ethnic groups showed higher levels of cognitive and social skills on standardized assessments shown to predict school success when caregivers were sensitive and stimulating. Children's skills were not consistently related to whether the child's and caregiver's ethnicity matched or whether the mother's and caregiver's beliefs about child-rearing were similar. These two large studies suggest that children from all three ethnic groups benefit from sensitive and stimulating care on child outcomes related to school success. The results are interpreted as indicating that the global dimension of quality may be reflected in very different types of practices that reflect cultural differences. (C) 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.