Effects of Classroom Practices and School Context

课堂实践和学校环境的影响

• 批准号: 6683427
• 负责人: M LEE VAN HORN
• 金额: $ 6.19万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-07-01 至 2004-08-10
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6683427
• 关键词: academic achievement; behavior disorders; behavioral /social science research tag; child psychology; education evaluation /planning; educational psychology; elementary school; human data; longitudinal human study; psychometrics; social behavior; teaching

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The developmentally appropriate practices (DAP) guidelines proposed by the National Association for the Education of Young Children in 1987 have been widely taught in training programs for early childhood education and implemented in elementary school classrooms. The DAP standards have had a significant impact on the classroom experiences of millions of children. The proposed research builds on previous work examining the measurement of DAP and the effects of DAP on academic achievement. This research has three aims: 1) to examine the effects of DAP on the developmental trajectory of social skills and problem behavior; 2) to study the extent to which the school context relates to teacher use of DAP; and 3) to examine the combined effects of school context and DAP on trajectories of academic achievement and social skills. This study addresses methodological limitations of earlier research, using multilevel analyses appropriate to the nested nature of the data set and an observer measure of DAP with strong psychometric properties. The analyses proposed in this study make use of an existing data set that includes longitudinal data from over 4,000 former Head Start children and their peers. Data were collected in 30 states around the US including a diverse ethnic makeup. As in other studies evaluating the effects of DAP, results are limited by the fact that only those aspects of DAP that take place in the classroom on a regular basis are included.

描述（由申请人提供）：1987年全国幼儿教育协会提出的发展适当的实践（DAP）指南已在幼儿教育培训计划中得到广泛教授，并在小学教室中实施。 DAP标准对数百万儿童的课堂经历产生了重大影响。拟议的研究以先前的工作为基础，研究了DAP的测量以及DAP对学术成就的影响。这项研究具有三个目的：1）研究DAP对社交技能和问题行为的发展轨迹的影响； 2）研究学校环境与教师使用DAP有关的程度； 3）检查学校环境和DAP对学术成就和社交技能轨迹的综合影响。这项研究使用适合数据集嵌套性质的多级分析以及具有强烈心理测量特性的DAP的观察者度量来解决早期研究的方法论局限性。这项研究中提出的分析利用了现有数据集，其中包括来自4,000多名以前的启动儿童及其同龄人的纵向数据。在美国的30个州收集了数据，包括多样化的种族化妆。与其他评估DAP效果的研究一样，结果受到以下事实的限制：仅包括定期在课堂上发生的DAP的那些方面。