Zróżnicowanie umiejętności początkowych w klasie pierwszej a efekt względnego wieku w klasie trzeciej
Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: The paper aims to verify two hypotheses.The first states that the differentiation of initial 1 st grade pupil skills is negatively correlated with age at entry to school.This was tested according to findings from the ERI study Six and seven year olds at the start of school.The variation of reading and writing scores of 1164 pupils aged 5.9-7.9 years who were beginning 1 st grade decreased in subsequent age quartiles.The second hypothesis -that classroom differentiation of pupils' initial skills in 1 st grade is positively correlated with the birthdate effect in 3 rd grade -was tested on data of 4838 pupils from 254 classrooms drawn from the 2011 PIRLS and TIMSS studies in Poland.Skills were evaluated on the basis of parental reports.Hierarchical linear analysis (gender, SES and school location controlled) showed that the greater the differentiation of language skills in 1 st grade, the greater the birthdate effect in mathematics in 3 rd grade.This result suggests that school entry age is of lesser importance than the methods used to reduce differences in children's school readiness at the onset of education.
Author: Krzysztof Konarzewski
Language: Polish
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2525457550