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What matters most for early childhood development? Evidence from Malda district, India

PLoS ONE, 2022
Background The early period of a child’s life is considered to be the most important developmental stage throughout the lifespan. Around 250 million children of age below five years in low-and middle- income countries (LMICs) are at risk of not attaining
Rayhan S. K
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No Association Between the Home Math Environment and Numerical and Patterning Skills in a Large and Diverse Sample of 5- to 6-year-olds

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
Selecting a large and diverse sample of 5–6-year-old preschool children (179 boys and 174 girls; Mage = 70.03 months, SDage = 3.43), we aimed to extend previous findings on variability in children’s home math environment (i.e., home math activities ...
Laure De Keyser, Merel Bakker, Sanne Rathé, Nore Wijns, Joke Torbeyns, Lieven Verschaffel, Bert De Smedt   +6 more
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Relations between Subdomains of Home Math Activities and Corresponding Math Skills in 4-Year-Old Children

Education Sciences, 2021
Most studies on the subject have investigated relations between home math activities and child math skills, without paying much attention to the specific skills that such activities foster and their alignment with children’s math assessments. The present
Diana Leyva, Melissa E. Libertus, Rebecca McGregor   +2 more
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Parents' views and experiences of the informal and formal home numeracy environment

Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, 2017
Abstract At school entry, it is evident that children vary in their literacy and numeracy skills, suggesting that the home environment in which children live and grow may influence a child's learning and development. Semi-structured interviews with parents (N = 8), of children aged between 37 months and 59 months (M = 47.5 months), were used to ...
Abbie Cahoon, Tony Cassidy, Victoria Simms   +2 more
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How does the modern home environment impact children's mathematics knowledge? Evidence from Canadian elementary children's digital home numeracy practice (DHNP)

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2023
AbstractBackgroundA strong knowledge of mathematics, beginning at the elementary level, is critical for participation in today's complex world. The home may be one way to facilitate individualized mathematics instruction, given that children spend more time at home than in an academic institution.
Sabrina Shajeen Alam, Adam Kenneth Dubé
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Developing and validating a measure of parental knowledge about early math development

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
Parents’ knowledge about the math skills that most preschool-aged children can develop might be an important component of the Home Math Environment (HME) as it might shape their math beliefs and efforts to support their preschoolers’ math development ...
Ashli-Ann Douglas, Camille Msall, Bethany Rittle-Johnson   +2 more
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Measuring Child Disadvantage: Comparing Multidimensional and Socioeconomic Approaches for Predicting Developmental Outcomes

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Robust measurement of disadvantage is essential to identifying and addressing inequities in children's development. We tested how a multidimensional framework of child disadvantage performed relative to a traditional socioeconomic position (SEP) approach to predict developmental outcomes.
Wei Hong, Fiona Mensah, Elodie O'Connor, Shuaijun Guo, Sharon Goldfeld, Meredith O'Connor, Cindy Pham, Sarah Gray   +7 more
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Reception Baseline Assessment and ‘small acts’ of micro‐resistance

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In September 2021, following the global COVID‐19 pandemic, the Department for Education introduced a national standardised digital Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA) for all English 4‐year‐old children. We analyse RBA and its associated Quality Monitoring Visits, as a further intensification of the new public management of early years ...
Guy Roberts‐Holmes, Diana Sousa, Siew Fung Lee   +2 more
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Principals' Leadership Content Knowledge in STEM contexts

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper we consider the nature of school principals' leadership content knowledge (LCK) for STEM subjects and for integrated STEM. We present a conceptualisation of STEM LCK based on aspects of principals' STEM capability and consideration of the differences between LCK and pedagogical content knowledge.
Kim Beswick, Vince Geiger, Sharon Fraser
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Teachers’ well-being, home learning environment and children learning outcomes in emergencies: a case of Afghanistan

Cogent Education
Teachers’ well-being and a conducive home learning environment play a pivotal role in improving children learning outcomes, but little is known about this in a humanitarian setting. This article assesses the role of teachers’ well-being and home learning
Conrad Murendo, Zahra Azemi, Than Zaw Oo, Silvia M. Arlini, Men Chanbona, Rachel Fermin, Nishtha Shrestha, Sayed Maher Sadat, Edwin Kimani, Kasundu Bosco   +9 more
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