کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
354071 618964 2012 14 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Profiles of school readiness among four-year-old Head Start children
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی روانشناسی روان شناسی کاربردی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Profiles of school readiness among four-year-old Head Start children
چکیده انگلیسی

This study uses the Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) data from 1997 to investigate the degree to which child, family, classroom, teacher, and Head Start program characteristics are related to children's school readiness and continued development over the four-year-old Head Start year. Latent class analyses were used to examine the constellation of school readiness competencies within individual Head Start children in both the fall and spring of the four-year-old Head Start year. Multinomial regression analyses examined patterns of association between demographic and program characteristics and profile membership over time. Four distinct developmental profiles were found in the sample in the fall, and three were found in the spring. Furthermore, a substantial proportion of Head Start children (43%) moved from a developmental profile including some risk to a strengths profile between the fall and spring of the Head Start year. Child age, family structure, parental educational attainment, classroom quality and teacher's level of educational attainment emerged as important factors associated with stability and change in profile membership over the four-year-old Head Start year, but receipt of social services through Head Start was not associated with stability or change in profile membership.


► Distinct school readiness profiles were found for Head Start children.
► Many children moved from a developmental profile including some risk to a strengths profile between fall and spring.
► Classroom quality and teacher's level of educational attainment are associated with stability and change in profile membership over the Head Start year.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Early Childhood Research Quarterly - Volume 27, Issue 4, 4th Quarter 2012, Pages 613–626
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