Profiles of School Readiness among Four-Year-Old Head Start Children

Autor/inn/en	Halle, Tamara G.; Hair, Elizabeth C.; Wandner, Laura D.; Chien, Nina C.
Titel	Profiles of School Readiness among Four-Year-Old Head Start Children
Quelle	In: Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 27 (2012) 4, S.613-626 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0885-2006
DOI	10.1016/j.ecresq.2012.04.001
Schlagwörter	Profiles; School Readiness; Educational Attainment; Social Services; Family Structure; Preschool Children; Disadvantaged Youth; Early Intervention; Family Characteristics; Teacher Characteristics; Classroom Environment; Student Characteristics; Child Development; Correlation; At Risk Students; Age Differences; Parents; Preschool Teachers; Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Charakterisierung; Profilanalyse; Readiness for school; School ability; Schulreife; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Social service; Soziale Dienstleistung; Soziale Dienste; Familienkonstellation; Familiensystem; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Benachteiligter Jugendlicher; Klassenklima; Unterrichtsklima; Kindesentwicklung; Korrelation; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Eltern; Erzieher; Erzieherin; Kindergärtnerin
Abstract	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. (Contains 6 tables and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10