Threshold analysis of association between child care quality and child outcomes for low-income children in pre-kindergarten programs
Threshold analysis of association between child care quality and child outcomes for low-income children in pre-kindergarten programs
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DOI：
10.1016/j.ecresq.2009.10.004
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发表时间：
2010-06-01
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Mashburn, Andrew
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作者：
Burchinal, Margaret;Vandergrift, Nathan;Mashburn, Andrew
在过去的50年里，联邦政府和大多数州都投入了大量资金，为低收入家庭的3岁和4岁儿童提供公共资助的儿童保育和早期教育机会。政策制定者和家长希望确定与更好的儿童成果有关的教师与儿童互动和有意指导的质量水平或阈值，以便最有效地利用儿童保育来改善入学准备。来自低收入家庭的儿童的学业和社会成果进行预测，从教师与儿童的互动和教学质量的措施，在样条回归分析的数据，从11个州的幼儿园前的评估。研究结果表明，教师与儿童的互动质量是一个更强的预测较高的社会能力和较低水平的行为问题，在较高的比在较低质量的教室。此外，研究结果表明，教学质量与语言，阅读和数学技能更强烈地在高质量比低质量的教室。这些研究结果表明，高质量的教室可能是必要的，以提高社会和学术成果在学前班计划为低收入儿童。(C)2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Over the past five decades, the federal government and most states have invested heavily in providing publicly-funded child care and early education opportunities for 3- and 4-year-old children from low-income families. Policy makers and parents want to identify the level or threshold in quality of teacher-child interaction and intentional instruction related to better child outcomes to most efficiently use child care to improve school readiness. Academic and social outcomes for children from low-income families were predicted from measures of teacher-child interactions and instructional quality in a spline regression analysis of data from an 11-state pre-kindergarten evaluation. Findings suggested that the quality of teacher-child interactions was a stronger predictor of higher social competence and lower levels of behavior problems in higher than in lower quality classrooms. Further, findings suggested that quality of instruction was related to language, read and math skills more strongly in higher quality than in lower quality classrooms. These findings suggest that high-quality classrooms may be necessary to improve social and academic outcomes in pre-kindergarten programs for low-income children. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.