A Pre-Kindergarten Achievement Gap? Scope and Implications

Autor/in	Wang, Aubrey H.
Titel	A Pre-Kindergarten Achievement Gap? Scope and Implications
Quelle	5 (2008) 9, S.23-31 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1548-6613
Schlagwörter	African American Children; Racial Differences; Kindergarten; Whites; Asian Americans; Hispanic Americans; Achievement Gap; Social Influences; Mathematics Skills; Language Skills; Emergent Literacy; Reading Skills; Psychomotor Skills; Preschool Children; School Readiness; Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? African Americans; Child; Children; Afroamerikaner; Kind; Kinder; Rassenunterschied; White; Weißer; Asian immigrant; United States; Asiatischer Einwanderer; USA; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Sozialer Einfluss; Mathmatics achievement; Mathematics ability; Mathematische Kompetenz; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Frühleseunterricht; Reading skill; Lesefertigkeit; Psychomotorische Aktivität; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Readiness for school; School ability; Schulreife
Abstract	This study examined the degree to which achievement gaps existed among different ethnic and racial groups before kindergarten entry. Using published data on the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort, this study found statistically significant differences in language knowledge and skills, literacy knowledge and skills, and mathematics knowledge and skills between Black children and White children, Hispanic children and White children, and Asian and White children as early as 4-years-old. The largest achievement gap was found between Hispanic children and White children, followed by Black children and White children. Asian children were found to perform better than White children on measures of literacy, mathematics, and fine motor skills. Implications of this study were discussed. (Contains 2 tables.) (As Provided).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10