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DeCicca, Philip; Smith, Justin D. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2011
We investigate short and long-term effects of early childhood education using variation created by a unique policy experiment in British Columbia, Canada. Our findings imply starting Kindergarten one year late substantially reduces the probability of repeating the third grade, and meaningfully increases in tenth grade math and reading scores.…
Descriptors: Evidence, Low Income Groups, Early Childhood Education, Children
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Kafoussi, Sonia – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2004
This paper describes a classroom teaching experiment, concerning the concept of probability, with children aged 5 in a kindergarten school. The teaching experiment was based on constructivist and interactionist theories about the learning of school mathematics and lasted one month. The collection of the information was based on the tape-recorded…
Descriptors: Probability, Kindergarten, Constructivism (Learning), Young Children