Impacts of Early Childhood Programs on Children: A Comprehensive Meta-Analysis

早期儿童项目对儿童的影响：综合荟萃分析

• 批准号: 8637105
• 负责人: HIROKAZU YOSHIKAWA
• 金额: $ 50.49万
• 依托单位: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-04-01 至 2016-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8637105
• 关键词: Achievement; Address; Administrator; Age; Area; Behavior; Characteristics; Child; Child Development; Child Nutrition; Code; Cognitive; Communities; Data; Databases; Development; Documentation; Education; Educational Curriculum; Effectiveness; Emotional; Employment; Evaluation Studies; Family; Goals; Health; Hour; Income; Intervention; Investments; Language; Literature; Measures; Meta-Analysis; Methods; Nursery Schools; Outcome; Parenting behavior; Parents; Personal Satisfaction; Policies; Population; Population Characteristics; Program Evaluation; Research; Research Design; Research Personnel; Risk; Techniques; Training; United States; anti social; early childhood; evidence base; improved; inclusion criteria; innovation; intervention program; meetings; nutrition; physical conditioning; prenatal; programs; public health relevance; skills; social; social skills; socioeconomics; study characteristics

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Early childhood programs interventions for children and their families occurring between the prenatal period and age 5 have expanded rapidly in the past several decades and represent substantial public investments in children's healthy development. Despite the hundreds of evaluation studies that have been conducted, we lack a comprehensive understanding of the effectiveness of different types of programs for improving children's wellbeing, and how program intensity matters within and across program types. Meta-analysis provides a systematic method for quantitative synthesis of the entire population of early childhood program evaluations and for the full range of children served by these programs. Yet to date, no meta-analysis has integrated multiple program types and programmatic components. As a result, policymakers and program administrators are unable to make evidence-based decisions about which types of programs or program components would be most effective for meeting their goals. We propose to: 1) complete the coding of a database of all rigorous early childhood program evaluations conducted between 1960 and 2007 in the United States; 2) perform a database-wide descriptive analysis of impacts on children's wellbeing by program type (early childhood education; parenting support; parent socioeconomic support; support of child nutrition) and key program characteristics; 3) understand how programmatic components and combinations of programmatic components predict the magnitude of effects in particular child domains; and 4) prepare and release the meta-analytic database for public use. One key innovation of our proposed project is that the database will be the first to encompass both parent- and child-focused programs. A second is that our inclusion criteria for evaluation studies are both broader (including, for example, econometric studies) and more rigorous than have been employed in prior meta-analyses in this area. Finally, ours will be the first meta- analytic database in early childhood to be prepared and released for public use.

描述（由申请人提供）：在产前期和5岁之间发生的儿童及其家人的幼儿计划干预措施在过去几十年中迅速扩大，并代表了儿童健康发展的大量公共投资。尽管已经进行了数百种评估研究，但我们对不同类型计划改善儿童福祉的有效性以及程序强度在计划类型内和跨程序类型中的重要性都缺乏全面的理解。荟萃分析提供了一种系统的方法，用于定量综合幼儿计划评估的整个人群，以及这些计划提供的儿童的全部范围。然而，迄今为止，尚无荟萃分析整合了多种程序类型和程序化组件。结果，政策制定者和计划管理员无法就哪种类型的计划或计划组件做出基于证据的决定，最有效地实现其目标。我们建议：1）完成1960年至2007年在美国进行的所有严格幼儿计划评估数据库的编码； 2）对按计划类型（幼儿教育；育儿支持；父母的社会经济支持；对儿童营养的支持）和关键计划特征进行对儿童福祉的影响进行描述性分析； 3）了解程序化组件和程序成分的组合如何预测特定儿童领域的影响的大小； 4）准备和发布荟萃分析数据库供公众使用。我们提出的项目的一个关键创新是，数据库将是第一个涵盖父母和以子女为中心的程序的数据库。第二是，我们用于评估研究的纳入标准既广泛（例如，包括计量经济学研究），并且比该领域先前的荟萃分析中使用的更为严格。最后，我们的童年时期将成为第一个零售数据库，并被准备并发布供公众使用。