Associations between Low-Income Children's Fine Motor Skills in Preschool and Academic Performance in Second Grade

Autor/inn/en	Dinehart, Laura; Manfra, Louis
Titel	Associations between Low-Income Children's Fine Motor Skills in Preschool and Academic Performance in Second Grade
Quelle	In: Early Education and Development, 24 (2013) 2, S.138-161 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1040-9289
DOI	10.1080/10409289.2011.636729
Schlagwörter	Low Income Groups; Psychomotor Skills; Academic Achievement; Preschool Children; Elementary School Students; Grade 2; Economically Disadvantaged; Reading Achievement; Mathematics Achievement; Writing Skills; Minority Group Students; Language Skills; Grade Point Average; Hispanic American Students; Gender Differences; Racial Differences; Regression (Statistics); Florida; Beery Developmental Test of Visual Motor Integration; Stanford Achievement Tests + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Psychomotorische Aktivität; Schulleistung; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; School year 02; 2. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 02; Leseleistung; Mathmatics sikills; Mathmatics achievement; Mathematical ability; Mathematische Kompetenz; Writing skill; Schreibfertigkeit; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Hispanic; Hispanic Americans; Student; Students; Hispanoamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Geschlechterkonflikt; Rassenunterschied; Regression; Regressionsanalyse
Abstract	Research Findings: Given the growing literature pertaining to the importance of fine motor skills for later academic achievement (D. W. Grissmer, K. J. Grimm, S. M. Aiyer, W. M. Murrah, & J. S. Steele, 2010), the current study examines whether the fine motor skills of economically disadvantaged preschool students predict later academic performance in 2nd grade. More specifically, we expand on the current literature and evaluate whether 2 types of fine motor skills--fine motor object manipulation and fine motor writing--predict academic achievement above and beyond the effects of demographic characteristics and early language and cognition skills. Results indicate that performance on both fine motor writing and object manipulation tasks had significant effects on 2nd-grade reading and math achievement, as measured by grades and standardized test scores. Stronger effects were yielded for writing tasks compared to object manipulation tasks. Practice or Policy: Implications for researchers and early childhood practitioners are discussed. (Contains 7 tables and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10