Promoting Parents' Social Capital to Increase Children's Attendance in Head Start: Evidence from an Experimental Intervention

Autor/inn/en	Sommer, Teresa Eckrich; Sabol, Terri J.; Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay; Small, Mario; Wilde, Henry; Brown, Sean; Huang, Zong Yang
Titel	Promoting Parents' Social Capital to Increase Children's Attendance in Head Start: Evidence from an Experimental Intervention
Quelle	In: Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 10 (2017) 4, S.732-766 (35 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1934-5747
DOI	10.1080/19345747.2016.1258099
Schlagwörter	Social Capital; Attendance; Disadvantaged Youth; Preschool Education; Preschool Children; Low Income; Randomized Controlled Trials; Intervention; Guidelines; Trust (Psychology); Parent Influence; Experimental Groups; Neighborhoods; Control Groups; Focus Groups; Parent Attitudes; Teacher Attitudes; Mixed Methods Research; Social Networks; Parent Participation; Helping Relationship; Help Seeking; Interviews + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sozialkapital; Anwesenheit; Benachteiligter Jugendlicher; Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschule; Niedriglohn; Richtlinien; Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft; Elternverhalten; Lehrerverhalten; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Elternmitwirkung; Helfende Beziehung; Help-seeking behavior; Help-seeking behaviour; Hilfe suchendes Verhalten; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik
Abstract	Improving children's attendance is a high priority for Head Start and other early childhood education programs serving low-income children. We conducted a randomized control trial in a major northern city to evaluate the impact of a low-cost intervention designed to promote parents' social capital as a potential influence on children's attendance in Head Start centers. The intervention assigned children to treatment group classrooms based on (a) neighborhood of residence (geography condition) or (b) the geography condition plus the opportunity for parents to form partnerships in support of their children's attendance, or to control group classrooms according to Head Start guidelines only. We did not find impacts on average attendance throughout the year. However, the intervention did lead to increased attendance during the winter when average center attendance was lowest. There were no impacts on fall or spring attendance. Follow-up exploratory analyses of focus groups with parents and staff suggested that parents' level of connection and trust, self-generated partnership strategies, and commitment to their children's education may be factors by which parents' social capital expands and children's attendance improves. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01