The Impact of Kindergarten Learning-Related Skills on Academic Trajectories at the End of Elementary School

Autor/inn/en	McClelland, Megan M.; Acock, Alan C.; Morrison, Frederick J.
Titel	The Impact of Kindergarten Learning-Related Skills on Academic Trajectories at the End of Elementary School
Quelle	In: Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 21 (2006) 4, S.471-490 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0885-2006
DOI	10.1016/j.ecresq.2006.09.003
Schlagwörter	Learning Strategies; Cognitive Style; Self Management; Interpersonal Competence; Kindergarten; Academic Achievement; Reading; Mathematics; Early Intervention; Grade 6; Grade 2 + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Learning methode; Learning techniques; Lernmethode; Lernstrategie; Cognitive styles; Kognitiver Stil; Selbstmanagement; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Schulleistung; Leseprozess; Lesen; Mathematik; School year 06; 6. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 06; School year 02; 2. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 02
Abstract	Recent research indicates that children's learning-related skills (including self-regulation and social competence) contribute to early school success. The present study investigated the relation of kindergarten learning-related skills to reading and math trajectories in 538 children between kindergarten and sixth grade, and examined how children with poor learning-related skills fared throughout elementary school on reading and math. Latent growth curves indicated that learning-related skills had a unique effect on children's reading and math scores between kindergarten and sixth grade and predicted growth in reading and math between kindergarten and second grade. In addition, children with poor learning-related skills performed lower than their higher-rated peers on measures of reading and mathematics between kindergarten and sixth grade, with the gap widening between kindergarten and second grade. Between third and sixth grade, this gap persisted but did not widen. Discussion focuses on the importance of early learning-related skills as a component in children's academic trajectories throughout elementary school and the need for early intervention focusing on children's self-regulation and social competence. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10