Arts Enrichment and School Readiness for Children at Risk

Autor/inn/en	Brown, Eleanor D.; Benedett, Barbara; Armistead, M. Elizabeth
Titel	Arts Enrichment and School Readiness for Children at Risk
Quelle	In: Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 25 (2010) 1, S.112-124 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0885-2006
DOI	10.1016/j.ecresq.2009.07.008
Schlagwörter	School Readiness; Reading Readiness; Visual Arts; Achievement Gains; Outcomes of Education; Academic Achievement; At Risk Students; Art Activities; Preschool Children; Low Income Groups; Early Intervention; Longitudinal Studies; Racial Differences; Comparative Analysis; Receptive Language + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Readiness for school; School ability; Schulreife; Reading rate; Reading speed; Lesegeschwindigkeit; Optische Gestaltung; Achievement gain; Leistungssteigerung; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Schulleistung; Künstlerische Tätigkeit; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Rassenunterschied; Rezeptive Kommunikationsfähigkeit
Abstract	Arts enrichment provides varied channels for acquiring school readiness skills and may offer important educational opportunities for students from diverse backgrounds and with diverse needs. Study 1 examined achievement within an arts enrichment preschool that served low-income children. Results indicated that students practiced school readiness skills through early learning, music, creative movement, and visual arts classes. Students who attended the preschool for 2 years demonstrated higher achievement than those who attended for 1 year, suggesting that maturation alone did not account for achievement gains. Across 2 years of program attendance and four time points of assessment, students improved in school readiness skills, and there were no significant effects of race/ethnicity or developmental level on achievement growth. Study 2 compared students attending the arts enrichment preschool to those attending a nearby alternative on a measure of receptive vocabulary that has been found to predict school success. At the end of 1 year of attendance, students in the arts program showed greater receptive vocabulary than those at the comparison preschool. Results suggest that arts enrichment may advance educational outcomes for children at risk. (Contains 4 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10