Impacts of a prekindergarten program on children’s mathematics, language, literacy, executive function, and emotional skills

TitleImpacts of a prekindergarten program on children's mathematics, language, literacy, executive function, and emotional skills
Publication TypeJournal Article
AuthorsWeiland, C., and H. Yoshikawa
Publicly funded prekindergarten programs have achieved small-to-large impacts on children's cognitive outcomes. The current study examined the impact of a prekindergarten program that implemented a coaching system and consistent literacy, language, and mathematics curricula on these and other nontargeted, essential components of school readiness, such as executive functioning. Participants included 2,018 four and five-year-old children. Findings indicated that the program had moderate-to-large impacts on children's language, literacy, numeracy and mathematics skills, and small impacts on children's executive functioning and a measure of emotion recognition. Some impacts were considerably larger for some subgroups. For urban public school districts, results inform important programmatic decisions. For policy makers, results confirm that prekindergarten programs can improve educationally vital outcomes for children in meaningful, important ways.
Title Impacts of a prekindergarten program on children's mathematics, language, literacy, executive function, and emotional skills
Publication Title Child Dev
Publication Type Journal Article
Published Year 2013
Authors C. Weiland; H. Yoshikawa
Accession Number 23534487
Number 6
ISBN Number 1467-8624 (Electronic)<br/>0009-3920 (Linking)
Grant List
-

JOIN THE CONVERSATION

For breaking news and to stay connected, follow us on social media. Sign up to get our E-News delivered straight to your inbox.