Ready for kindergarten: Are intelligence skills enough?
South African Journal of Childhood Education
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Ready for kindergarten: Are intelligence skills enough? | |
| Creator | Fitzpatrick, Caroline | |
| Description | This study investigated how different profiles of kindergarten readiness in terms of student intellectual ability, academic skills and classroom engagement relate to future academic performance. Participants are French-Canadian children followed in the context of the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development (N = 670). Trained examiners measured number knowledge, receptive vocabulary and fluid intelligence when children were in kindergarten. Teachers rated kindergarten classroom engagement. Outcomes included fourth-grade teacherrated achievement and directly assessed mathematical skills. Latent class analyses revealed three kindergarten readiness profiles: high (57%), moderate (34%) and low (9.3%) readiness. Using multiple regression, we found that a more favourable kindergarten profile predicted better fourth-grade academic performance. Identifying children at risk of academic difficulty is an important step for preventing underachievement and dropout. These results suggest the importance of promoting a variety of cognitive, academic and behavioural skills to enhance later achievement in at-risk learners. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2017-12-11 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/sajce.v7i1.512 | |
| Source | South African Journal of Childhood Education; Vol 7, No 1 (2017); 8 pages 2223-7682 2223-7674 | |
| Language | eng | |
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