Academic and Cognitive Functioning in First Grade: Associations with Earlier Home and Child Care Predictors and with Concurrent Home and Classroom Experiences

By Jason T. Downer, Robert C. Pianta. 2006

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Building Links Between Early Socioeconomic Status, Cognitive Ability, and Math and Science Achievement (2017, unknown): “…are evident in performance on mathematical problem-solving tasks (Pappas, Ginsburg, & Jiang, 2003), on tests of language ability (NICHD, 2002), and on measured math achievement (Downer & Pianta, 2006; Korenman, Miller, & Sjaastad, 1995; McLoyd, 1998; Sektnan, McClelland, Acock, & Morrison, 2010).”
Why poor children are more likely to become poor readers: the early years (2014, background): “Of the three measures that comprise the tripartite index of socio-economic status, most research indicates that parent education has the strongest influence (Cheadle 2008; Downer and Pianta 2006; Marks, Cresswell, and Ainley 2006; Marks 2008; The Sutton Trust 2010).”
Starting small: Building preschool teacher knowledge that supports early literacy development (2009, background): “Embedding emergent literacy instruction into preschool programs, particularly in disadvantaged communities, is a critical dimension of preparing students for elementary school (Dickinson & Smith, 1994; Downer & Pianta, 2006).”
Family and Sociodemographic Predictors of School Readiness Among African American Boys in Kindergarten (2012, background): “There is evidence that parental warmth is positively related to kindergarten achievement (Downer & Pianta, 2006).”
Strengthening school readiness for Head Start children: Evaluation of a self-regulation intervention (2015, background): “Extant literature documents parental education as an indicator of risk and links low parental education with poor developmental outcomes (Downer & Pianta, 2006; Sektnan et al., 2010).”
Investigation of Dimensions of Social-Emotional Classroom Behavior and School Readiness for Low-Income Urban Preschool Children (2007, background): “Downer and Pianta (2006) found that children’s early social competence mediated the relationship between their early experiences and first-grade academic achievement.”
Why poor children are more likely to become poor readers: The school years (2013, background): “Most research indicates that of the three measures that comprise the tripartite socioeconomic index, parent education has the strongest influence (Cheadle, 2008; Downer & Pianta, 2006; Marks, 2008; Marks et al., 2006; Sutton Trust 2010).”
Pre-Service Teachers: Dispositional Traits, Emotional States, and Quality of Teacher-Student Interactions (2011, background): “…by the CLASS predict growth in pre-k children’s achievement (Howes, et al., 2008; Mashburn, Pianta, Hamre, Downer, Barbarin, & Bryant et al., 2007), first-graders’ achievement gains (Hamre & Pianta 2005), and social adjustment in early childhood and elementary school (Downer & Pianta, 2006).”