Prevalence of sustained shared thinking in preschool settings predicts children's outcomes on academic and social-behavioral measures¶

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q2 i? The review reports that the EPPE and REPEY studies found prevalence of sustained shared thinking was highly predictive of children's outcomes including social/behavioral development, academic progress, and reading and mathematics at age 6. → Dave Neale & Deborah Pino-Pasternak 2016

Evidence¶

Dave Neale & Deborah Pino-Pasternak 2016¶

Dave Neale & Deborah Pino-Pasternak. (2016). A Review of Reminiscing in Early Childhood Settings and Links to Sustained Shared Thinking. Educ Psychol Rev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-016-9376-0

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Narrative review reporting the large-scale EPPE and REPEY studies (Siraj-Blatchford et al. 2003; Sylva et al. 2004, 2011). The review states prevalence of sustained shared thinking was "highly predictive of children ’s outcomes"; no effect sizes are printed.

"the prevalence of focused adult–child dialog, labeled“sustained shared thinking”, in preschool settings was highly predictive of children ’s outcomes on a range of measures, including indicators of social/behavioral development at school entry"

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