Examining the Effects of a Two-Generation Education Intervention on Children's Developmental Outcomes and Family Processes Using Diverse Methodological Approaches

使用多种方法研究两代教育干预对儿童发展成果和家庭过程的影响

• 批准号: 10579820
• 负责人: Lauren A Tighe
• 金额: $ 7.18万
• 依托单位: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10579820
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Project Summary/Abstract In the United States, the academic achievement gap between children from high- and low-income families is already apparent when children begin formal schooling, and gaps continue to persist over time1-4. Many programs designed to address the achievement gap focus on school-based interventions7, but children spend most of their waking hours at home. What is missing from the current programming and research is a holistic focus on the family, particularly on parents' education – a significant source of influence on children's development5,8-12,24. A new model, called two-generation education programming, explicitly offers high-quality and equally intense interventions simultaneously to low-income parents and children from the same family6. Guided by a multi-theoretical framework, the goal of the two-year proposed fellowship is to investigate (a) the effects of an experimental two-generation education program on children's academic and behavioral outcomes and (b) if any impacts are mediated by family processes. Potential family processes include parents' efforts to promote the educational advancement of their children in addition to navigating the resources and demands of parenthood. Data come from the NU2Gen Study, an evaluation of a novel two-generation education program for low-income families called CareerAdvance. The NU2Gen Study not only offers an unprecedented opportunity to test the causal impacts of parents' education on children and families; it also provides diverse and innovative measurement of possible underlying mechanisms that might explain positive or negative outcomes. Aim 1 tests the direct and indirect effects of increased parental education on family and child outcomes by conducting causal and pathway analyses on parent survey and child school administrative data (N=478). Aim 2 will examine whether the two-generation program strengthens parents' promotion of educational success in the home (e.g., verbal environment) by utilizing data science and machine learning methodology to convert parents' audio recordings (n=40) of utterances (~1,000 words per hour) over 16 hours to transcripts for text analysis. Aim 3 will further investigate changes in families' resources and demands (e.g., work-school-family balance) due to increased parental education through qualitative analysis of 39 focus group with parents (n=141). Collectively, these studies provide insight into the complex lives of low-income families as well as the effectiveness of policies designed to improve parents and children's education simultaneously. These aims will be accomplished with a rigorous training plan at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University, an interdisciplinarysocial science and public policy research center,emphasizing program evaluation and social policy (sponsor Chase-Lansdale), data science and text mining techniques (co- sponsor Miratrix), and qualitative analytic approaches (co-sponsor Burton). Completing the proposed research and training will be the first step in the PI's career plan to conduct policy-relevant, interdisciplinary research on the impact of socioeconomic contexts on children, parents, and families using a variety of advanced methods.

项目摘要/摘要 在美国，高收入家庭和低收入家庭的儿童之间的学术成就差距是 当孩子开始正规上学时，已经显而易见，并且随着时间的时间1-4，差距继续持续存在。许多 旨在解决成就差距重点关注基于学校的干预措施的计划7，但孩子们花了 他们大部分在家里醒来的时间。当前的编程和研究中缺少的是整体 专注于家庭，尤其是父母的教育 - 对孩子的重要影响 开发5,8-12,24。一种称为两代教育计划的新模型，明确提供高质量的 仅对来自同一家庭的低收入父母和孩子的干预同样强烈。 在一个多理论框架的指导下，为期两年的奖学金的目标是调查（a） 实验性两代教育计划对儿童学术和行为成果的影响 （b）如果家庭流程介导任何影响。潜在的家庭过程包括父母的努力 促进孩子的教育发展，除了浏览资源和要求 育儿。数据来自NU2GEN研究，这是对新型两代教育计划的评估 对于低收入家庭，称为CareerAdvance。 NU2GEN研究不仅提供了前所未有的 测试父母教育对儿童和家庭的因果影响的机会；它还提供潜水员 以及可能解释正面或负面的可能基本机制的创新测量 结果。 AIM 1测试增加父母教育对家庭和儿童的直接和间接影响 通过对父母调查和儿童学校行政数据进行因果和途径分析来取得成果 （n = 478）。 AIM 2将检查两代计划是否强调父母的促进 通过使用数据科学和机器学习，在家庭中的教育成功（例如，口头环境） 转换父母的录音（n = 40）话语（每小时约1,000个单词）的方法学16小时 转录本以进行文本分析。 AIM 3将进一步调查家庭资源和需求的变化（例如， 通过对39焦点小组的定性分析增加父母教育的工作 - 家庭平衡） 与父母（n = 141）。这些研究共同洞悉了低收入家庭的复杂生活 以及旨在简单地改善父母和孩子教育的政策的有效性。 这些目标将通过在政策研究研究所进行严格的培训计划来实现 跨学科科学与公共政策研究中心西北大学强调 计划评估和社会政策（赞助商Chase-Lansdale），数据科学和文本挖掘技术（共同 赞助商Miratrix）和定性分析方法（共同赞助商Burton）。完成拟议的研究 培训将是PI职业生涯计划的第一步，以进行与政策相关的跨学科研究 社会经济环境对儿童，父母和家庭的影响，使用各种先进的方法。

项目成果

Improving the education and wellbeing of student parents.

改善学生家长的教育和福祉。

• DOI: 10.1111/nyas.15094
• 发表时间: 2024
• 期刊: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
• 影响因子: 5.2
• 作者: Tighe,LaurenA;Sommer,TeresaEckrich;Sabol,TerriJ;Chase-Lansdale,PLindsay
• 通讯作者: Chase-Lansdale,PLindsay