Unpacking the Home Numeracy Environment: Examining Dimensions of Number Activities in Early Childhood.
Unpacking the Home Numeracy Environment: Examining Dimensions of Number Activities in Early Childhood.
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DOI：
10.1016/j.ecresq.2022.08.002
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发表时间：
2023
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3.7
通讯作者：
Bachman, Heather J
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作者：
Elliott, Leanne;Votruba-Drzal, Elizabeth;Miller, Portia;Libertus, Melissa E;Bachman, Heather J
越来越多的研究考察了家长在家中支持幼儿数字学习的做法，即家庭数学环境。这些研究中有许多聚焦于数学活动的正式和非正式领域，这些领域的定义并不一致，且与儿童的数学学习相关。在这项研究中，我们探究了家庭数学环境的维度，并在为期一年的时间里，在一组四岁儿童及其家长的样本中检验了它们与儿童数学技能的关系。家长报告了孩子在四岁和五岁时21种数学活动的频率。探索性和验证性因素分析揭示了一个双因素解决方案：与数字相关的游戏活动以及使用带有数字的教育材料。在控制了先前的数字技能、儿童年龄和社会经济地位的情况下，与数字相关的游戏频率与儿童五岁时解决应用数学问题的能力呈正相关。相比之下，在控制了协变量的情况下，家庭数学环境的这两个测量指标都不能预测符号数字知识或非符号数字感知。这些发现强调了区分家庭数学环境的各个因素以及对这些因素制定清晰的理论定义的必要性。
A growing body of research has examined parents’ practices to support their young children’s number learning at home, i.e., the home numeracy environment. Many of these studies focus on formal and informal domains of numeracy activities, which are inconsistently defined and related to children’s math learning. In this study, we explore dimensions of the home numeracy environment and examine their relations with children’s math skills among a sample of four-year-old children and their parents over the course of one year. Parents reported on the frequency of 21 numeracy activities when children were four and five. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses revealed a two-factors solution: number-related play activities and use of educational materials with numbers. Frequency of play with numbers was positively related to children’s ability to solve applied math problems at age five, controlling for prior number skills, child age, and socioeconomic status. In contrast, neither measure of the home numeracy environment predicted symbolic number knowledge or non-symbolic number sense when controlling for covariates. These findings underscore the need to differentiate between factors of the home numeracy environment and to develop clear theoretical definitions of these factors.