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Grounding Understanding of the Home Numeracy Environment: Within-Group Variation in Latine Families
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Jimena Cosso; Gala Campos Oaxaca; David J. Purpura – Infant and Child Development, 2024
The home numeracy environment is an essential construct that helps explain children's numeracy skills. However, this field has been developed mostly focusing on monolingual English-speaking families, and cultural differences that contextualize the home environment have not been considered. This study describes the home numeracy environment of…
Descriptors: Home Study, Educational Environment, Family Environment, Numeracy
The Relations between Parent-Educator Communication, the Home Environment, and Children's Outcomes in Preschool
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Tanya M. Paes; Joyce Lin; Robert Duncan; David J. Purpura; Sara A. Schmitt – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2024
Background: The literature suggests that educators can use parent-educator communication to support parents with engaging their children in home learning activities (Epstein, 1995; Hoover-Dempsey & Sandler, 1997). Objective: This study examines the relations between parent-educator communication and preschoolers' numeracy, literacy, executive…
Descriptors: Parent School Relationship, Communication Strategies, Family Environment, Outcomes of Education
Goldilocks and the Home Mathematics Environment: Parents' Rate Activities 'Too Easy,' 'Just Right,' or 'Too Hard' across Early Development
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Patrick Ehrman; Alexa Ellis; David J. Purpura – Infant and Child Development, 2023
Research focusing on the home mathematics environment has shown mixed results across age groups. Using data from a large online survey, we explored parents' perceptions of the age appropriateness of home mathematics activities for their children. Children's ages ranged from one to 6 years old (N = 958). Activities spanned multiple domains of early…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Parent Attitudes, Mathematics Instruction, Family Environment
The Home Numeracy Environment of Latine Families: A Mixed Methods Measurement Development Study
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Jimena Cosso; David J. Purpura; Hirokazu Yoshikawa – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
The home numeracy environment (HNE) is an essential factor to explain family engagement in relation to numeracy. Research in this field has mostly focused on English-speaking families and has not taken into consideration cultural differences that contextualize the home environment. Measuring HNE in more ethnically diverse samples might counter…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Numeracy, Hispanic Americans, Cultural Differences