Learning-environment aspects framework for early academic competence¶

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Evidence · 1 claim (1 for) · 1 study (1 review), q2 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 1 claim rests on one study

Description¶

The article organizes its review around aspects of the learning environment that it identifies as most closely tied to early academic success. It states that it "reviews data on aspects of the learning environment most closely associated with successful development of early academic competence," treating these environmental aspects as the organizing axis for comparing low-SES and higher-SES children's access to academically supportive conditions.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Requires data on children's learning environments and on early academic competence to relate the two.

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• Children from low socioeconomic backgrounds
• Children from higher socioeconomic status backgrounds

Target Learning Objectives¶

• Development of early academic competence

Claims¶

• Ses Differences Access Academically Auspicious Environments [+M]

Related Theories¶

Examples¶

• Use review findings to identify promising targets for social innovations improving poor children's educational prospects

Key Sources¶

• Oscar A. Barbarin, Nikki Aikens. (2015). Overcoming the Educational Disadvantages of Poor Children: How Much do Teacher Preparation, Workload, and Expectations Matter. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, vol. 85, no. 2. https://www.mathematica.org/publications/overcoming-the-educational-disadvantages-of-poor-children-how-much-do-teacher-preparation-workload