Early education and later achievement: The impact of COVID-19 on educational attainment of African American children

早期教育和后期成就：COVID-19 对非裔美国儿童受教育程度的影响

• 批准号: 10445914
• 负责人: Araba Nayena Blankson
• 金额: $ 49.61万
• 依托单位: SPELMAN COLLEGE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-01 至 2027-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10445914
• 关键词: Academic achievement; Achievement; Address; African American; Area; COVID-19; COVID-19 impact; COVID-19 pandemic; Child; Cognition; Conflict (Psychology); Crystallization; Development; Education; Emotional; Environment; Future Teacher; Goals; Health; Home; Home environment; Individual; Instruction; Intelligence; Intervention; Knowledge; Life; Liquid substance; Low income; Mathematics; Natural experiment; Nursery Schools; Outcome; Pathway interactions; Play; Policies; Population; Predictive Factor; Process; Reading; Research; Research Project Summaries; Role; Sampling; Schools; Societies; Socioeconomic Status; Testing; Uncertainty; Underserved Population; cognitive process; cognitive skill; cohort; early childhood; elementary school; executive function; experience; follow-up; high school; improved; kindergarten; mathematical ability; reading ability; recruit; school environment; second grade; socioeconomics; success; tenth grade; third grade

PROJECT SUMMARY The research focuses on examining African American children across a broad range of socioeconomic statuses (SES), avoiding the inherent confound in examination of only low-income African American children. In the proposed research, cognitive processes (fluid reasoning, executive functioning, and crystallized knowledge) are examined within the context of classroom quality (emotional support, classroom organization, and instructional support), student-teacher relationships (warmth and conflict), and home environmental stimulation to elucidate determinants of reading and math achievement among an economically diverse sample of African American children. A primary aim of the research is also to examine the impact of COVID-19 on the educational attainment of African American children. The research is a natural experiment involving longitudinal follow-up of an economically diverse sample of 198 African American children originally assessed in their preschool, kindergarten, and early elementary school years and a new cohort of children who experienced a disruption in their preschool year due to COVID-19. The proposed research will have a significant impact on improving educational outcomes in African American children by enhancing our understanding of the child x environment processes that influence reading and math achievement in this underserved population. Results of the research can be used in developing treatments, interventions, or policies concerning early childhood development and education for this understudied population, thereby contributing to enhancing the health and outcomes of children in this nation.

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