ERIC Number: EJ1449501
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 22
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ISSN: ISSN-0924-3453
EISSN: EISSN-1744-5124
Enrolment in the First Stage of Early Childhood Education and Students' Academic Performance: A Cross-Country Analysis
School Effectiveness and School Improvement, v35 n4 p365-386 2024
Parents have the option of enrolling their children in the first stage of early childhood education (from 0 to 3 years of age). However, not all parents decide to do so, waiting until the second stage of early childhood education to enrol them in the education system (from 3 to 5 years of age), or even until compulsory education when their children are around 6. We intend to analyse the influence of students' enrolment in the first stage of early childhood education on their fourth-grade reading scores. This analysis has been performed using data from the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2011 and 2016 for 39 countries and an instrumental variable approach to go beyond simple correlation. We find that attending the first stage of early childhood education has a positive influence on students' reading scores in 18 countries, whereas it presents a null influence in 16 countries.
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Enrollment Influences, Parent Role, Decision Making, Age Differences, Child Development, Compulsory Education, Social Development, Cognitive Development, Grade 4, Student Characteristics, Parent Background, Family Environment, Reading Habits, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Grade 4; Intermediate Grades
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Europe; Australia; Asia; Canada; United Kingdom (Northern Ireland); New Zealand; Ireland
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