ERIC Number: EJ1230870
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 18
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1088-8691
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Forecasting Youth Adjustment at Age 15 from School Readiness Profiles at 54 Months
Goble, Priscilla; Pianta, Robert C.; Sabol, Terri J.
Applied Developmental Science, v23 n4 p353-370 2019
A person-oriented approach examined the extent to which patterns of school readiness across social and cognitive domains in 944 typically-developing 54-month-old children forecast academic achievement, social-emotional development, risk taking, and executive functioning at age 15. Prior work identified six distinct profiles of school readiness at 54 months that predicted group differences in achievement in first grade, as well as achievement and social-emotional outcomes in fifth grade. After controlling for demographics, early language skills, and home and school factors, the 54-month readiness profiles demonstrated different performance on risk-taking and executive function behaviors assessed at age 15. Children with attention problems at 54 months were most likely to believe that peers were engaging in risky behaviors and to have smoked more than 2 cigarettes by age 15. Children with low working memory and low to average social skills at 54 months were outperformed by their peers on working memory and executive function tasks at age 15. Results are discussed in terms of continuity in forms of developmental function.
Descriptors: School Readiness, Young Children, Predictor Variables, Academic Achievement, Social Development, Emotional Development, Risk, Executive Function, Adolescents, Grade 1, Grade 5, Attention Span, Student Attitudes, Health Behavior, Student Behavior, Smoking, Short Term Memory, Interpersonal Competence, Child Development, Family Environment, Educational Environment
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Grade 1; Primary Education; Grade 5; Intermediate Grades; Middle Schools
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Language: English
Sponsor: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) (NIH); Institute of Education Sciences (ED)
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IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: U1025449; R305B130013