Parent-reported home math activities showed no significant association with children's math achievement, and inhibitory control did not moderate this null relation¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · associational r2 · q2
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Subclaims¶

q2 i? The interaction between home math activities and inhibitory control was not significant, adding only 0.4% of variance (ΔF(1,113) = 0.63, p = .430). → Silver 2022 q2 i? Home math activities were not significantly related to children's math achievement in the base model, despite a marginally significant bivariate correlation (r = .17). → Silver 2022 (2)

Evidence¶

Silver 2022¶

Silver, A. M., Elliott, L., & Libertus, M. E. (2022). Parental math input is not uniformly beneficial for young children: The moderating role of inhibitory control. Journal of Educational Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000679

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Regression with 123 children testing home math activities × inhibitory control showed the "interaction term was not statistically significant"; planned robustness checks were skipped because significance was not reached. The non-significant interaction is plotted in Figure 3.

"This interaction term was not statistically significant, however, and resulted in only an additional 0.4% of variance explained in children's math achievement, which was not a significant increase from the base model, ΔF(1,113) = 0.63, p = .430."

Silver 2022 (2)¶

Silver, A. M., Elliott, L., & Libertus, M. E. (2022). Parental math input is not uniformly beneficial for young children: The moderating role of inhibitory control. Journal of Educational Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000679

q2 · i? · associational · r2

In the covariate-adjusted base model, the main effect of parent-reported home math activity frequency (LeFevre questionnaire) was null, though the bivariate correlation was marginally significant (r = .17); the authors attribute this partly to self-report measurement limits.

"However, home math activities were not significantly related to children's math achievement."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Executive Function — moderator: an instructional effect differs with it

Related Claims¶

• Children's inhibitory control moderates the association between parental number talk and children's math achievement, with a positive association only at higher inhibitory control — related
• The number talk × inhibitory control interaction is domain-specific: it did not hold for parents' overall talk or for children's vocabulary as the outcome — related
• More frequent parent-reported home literacy activities were associated with better children's math performance, controlling for covariates — related
• At high (but not low) levels of children's inhibitory control, parental number talk was associated with children's math performance — related