Examining the Effects of a Two-Generation Education Intervention on Children's Developmental Outcomes and Family Processes Using Diverse Methodological Approaches

使用多种方法研究两代教育干预对儿童发展成果和家庭过程的影响

• 批准号: 10579820
• 负责人: Lauren A Tighe
• 金额: $ 7.18万
• 依托单位: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10579820
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Project Summary/Abstract In the United States, the academic achievement gap between children from high- and low-income families is already apparent when children begin formal schooling, and gaps continue to persist over time1-4. Many programs designed to address the achievement gap focus on school-based interventions7, but children spend most of their waking hours at home. What is missing from the current programming and research is a holistic focus on the family, particularly on parents' education – a significant source of influence on children's development5,8-12,24. A new model, called two-generation education programming, explicitly offers high-quality and equally intense interventions simultaneously to low-income parents and children from the same family6. Guided by a multi-theoretical framework, the goal of the two-year proposed fellowship is to investigate (a) the effects of an experimental two-generation education program on children's academic and behavioral outcomes and (b) if any impacts are mediated by family processes. Potential family processes include parents' efforts to promote the educational advancement of their children in addition to navigating the resources and demands of parenthood. Data come from the NU2Gen Study, an evaluation of a novel two-generation education program for low-income families called CareerAdvance. The NU2Gen Study not only offers an unprecedented opportunity to test the causal impacts of parents' education on children and families; it also provides diverse and innovative measurement of possible underlying mechanisms that might explain positive or negative outcomes. Aim 1 tests the direct and indirect effects of increased parental education on family and child outcomes by conducting causal and pathway analyses on parent survey and child school administrative data (N=478). Aim 2 will examine whether the two-generation program strengthens parents' promotion of educational success in the home (e.g., verbal environment) by utilizing data science and machine learning methodology to convert parents' audio recordings (n=40) of utterances (~1,000 words per hour) over 16 hours to transcripts for text analysis. Aim 3 will further investigate changes in families' resources and demands (e.g., work-school-family balance) due to increased parental education through qualitative analysis of 39 focus group with parents (n=141). Collectively, these studies provide insight into the complex lives of low-income families as well as the effectiveness of policies designed to improve parents and children's education simultaneously. These aims will be accomplished with a rigorous training plan at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University, an interdisciplinarysocial science and public policy research center,emphasizing program evaluation and social policy (sponsor Chase-Lansdale), data science and text mining techniques (co- sponsor Miratrix), and qualitative analytic approaches (co-sponsor Burton). Completing the proposed research and training will be the first step in the PI's career plan to conduct policy-relevant, interdisciplinary research on the impact of socioeconomic contexts on children, parents, and families using a variety of advanced methods.

项目概要/摘要 在美国，高收入家庭和低收入家庭的孩子之间的学业成绩差距是 当孩子们开始正规学校教育时就已经很明显了，并且随着时间的推移，差距继续存在1-4。许多 旨在解决成绩差距的计划侧重于基于学校的干预措施7，但儿童花费了 他们醒着的大部分时间都在家里。当前的规划和研究缺少的是整体性的 关注家庭，尤其是父母的教育——这是影响孩子的重要来源 发展5,8-12,24。一种称为两代教育规划的新模式明确提供了高质量的教育 同时对低收入父母和同一家庭的儿童进行同样强度的干预6。 在多理论框架的指导下，拟议的为期两年的研究金的目标是调查（a） 实验性两代教育计划对儿童学业和行为结果的影响 (b) 是否有任何影响是由家庭进程造成的。潜在的家庭过程包括父母的努力 除了引导孩子的资源和需求之外，还促进孩子的教育进步 为人父母。数据来自 NU2Gen 研究，这是对新型两代教育计划的评估 针对低收入家庭的称为 CareerAdvance 的项目。 NU2Gen 研究不仅提供了前所未有的 有机会测试父母教育对儿童和家庭的因果影响；它还提供了多样化的 以及对可能解释积极或消极的潜在机制的创新测量 结果。目标 1 测试加强父母教育对家庭和儿童的直接和间接影响 通过对家长调查和儿童学校管理数据进行因果和路径分析来得出结果 （N = 478）。目标 2 将审查两代计划是否加强了父母对孩子的促进 利用数据科学和机器学习在家庭（例如语言环境）中取得成功的教育 转换父母 16 小时内的言语录音（n=40）（每小时约 1,000 个单词）的方法 到文本分析的记录。目标 3 将进一步调查家庭资源和需求的变化（例如， 通过对 39 个焦点小组的定性分析，增加了家长教育，从而实现了工作-学校-家庭的平衡 与父母 (n=141)。总的来说，这些研究深入了解了低收入家庭的复杂生活 以及旨在同时改善父母和儿童教育的政策的有效性。 这些目标将通过政策研究所严格的培训计划来实现 西北大学，一个跨学科的社会科学与公共政策研究中心，强调 项目评估和社会政策（赞助商 Chase-Lansdale）、数据科学和文本挖掘技术（共同 赞助商 Miratrix）和定性分析方法（共同赞助商 Burton）。完成拟议的研究 培训将是 PI 职业计划的第一步，旨在开展与政策相关的跨学科研究 使用各种先进方法研究社会经济背景对儿童、父母和家庭的影响。

项目成果

Improving the education and wellbeing of student parents.

改善学生家长的教育和福祉。

• DOI: 10.1111/nyas.15094
• 发表时间: 2024
• 期刊: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
• 影响因子: 5.2
• 作者: Tighe,LaurenA;Sommer,TeresaEckrich;Sabol,TerriJ;Chase-Lansdale,PLindsay
• 通讯作者: Chase-Lansdale,PLindsay