CHILD CARE SCHOLARS

儿童保育学者

• 批准号: 100034
• 负责人: REBEKAH LEVINE COLEY
• 金额: $ 2.47万
• 依托单位: BOSTON COLLEGE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-29 至 2015-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/100034
• 关键词: CHILD; CARE; SCHOLARS

The proposed research aims to elucidate relations between children's physical health, early childhood education, family resources, and school readiness. Data will be drawn from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (Birth Cohort), which followed a representative sample of approximately 10,700 children born in the United States in 2001 from infancy through kindergarten. Research questions ask: 1) Do physical health problems directly predict school readiness competencies? 2) Does restricting development-promoting opportunities in ECE among children in poor health indirectly explain the associations between health problems and school readiness? 3) Does participation in ECE temper or exacerbate the negative associations between children's physical health problems and school readiness, such that ECE serves to protect or further disadvantage children in poor health? 4) Does family income have protective or aggravating effects for associations explored in Questions 1 through 3? Research questions will be addressed using OLS and logistic regressions as well as propensity score analysis methods to explore direct, mediated, and moderated relations between children's physical health and their school readiness.

这项拟议的研究旨在阐明儿童的身体健康、幼儿教育、家庭资源和上学准备之间的关系。数据将来自早期儿童纵向研究(出生队列)，该研究跟踪了2001年在美国出生的大约10,700名儿童的代表性样本，从婴儿期到幼儿园。研究问题问：1)身体健康问题是否直接预测入学准备能力？2)在健康状况较差的儿童中限制幼儿教育促进发展的机会是否间接解释了健康问题和入学准备之间的联系？3)参加幼儿教育是否缓和或加剧了儿童身体健康问题与入学准备之间的负面关联，从而使幼儿教育服务于保护或进一步不利健康状况较差的儿童？4)家庭收入对问题1至3中探讨的关联是否具有保护或加重作用？研究问题将使用OLS和逻辑回归以及倾向分数分析方法来解决，以探索儿童身体健康和他们的上学准备之间的直接、中介和调节关系。