Journal article
Room quality and composition matters: Children's verbal and numeracy abilities in Australian early childhood settings
F Niklas, C Tayler
Learning and Instruction | PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD | Published : 2018
Abstract
Early literacy and numeracy competencies are an important foundation for successful school achievement. In this large-scale study data from over 2000 Australian children who attended formal early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings were analysed to identify predictors of these competencies. In addition to child and family characteristics, the quality and the composition of the attended ECEC rooms were included in hierarchic linear models. A significant amount of variance of both, verbal and numeracy competencies, was explained by child and family characteristics. In addition, room composition reflected by mean intelligence of the children in the rooms in which children participate a..
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Funding Acknowledgements
E4Kids is a project of the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at The University of Melbourne and is conducted in partnership with Queensland University of Technology. E4Kids is funded by the Australian Research Council Linkage Projects Scheme (LP0990200), the Victorian Government Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, and the Queensland Government Department of Education and Training. E4Kids is conducted in academic collaboration with the University of Toronto Scarborough, the Institute of Education at the University of London and the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne. The E4Kids team would like to sincerely thank the ECEC services, directors, teachers/staff, children and their families for their ongoing participation in this study.r This work was also supported by a fellowship within the Post-doctoral Programme of the German Academic Exchange Services (DAAD).