ERIC Number: EJ1181554
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 25
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ISSN: ISSN-1040-9289
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Instructional Support and Academic Skills: Impacts of "INSIGHTS" in Classrooms with Shy Children
Meghan McCormick; Hope White; Parham Horn; Rachel Lacks; Erin O'Connor; Elise Cappella; Sandee McClowry
Early Education and Development, v29 n5 p691-715 2018
Research Findings: This study investigated how mean classroom-level shyness scores moderated the impacts of "INSIGHTS" into "Children's Temperament" on instructional support and students' math and reading skills in kindergarten and 1st-grade classrooms. "INSIGHTS" is a temperament-based social-emotional learning intervention with teacher, parent, and classroom programs. A total of 22 low-income urban elementary schools, 90 teachers, and 435 children were included in the study. Schools were randomly assigned to "INSIGHTS" or an attention-control condition. Multilevel modeling demonstrated larger impacts of "INSIGHTS" on instructional support in 1st-grade classrooms with greater mean classroom-level shyness scores. A further set of multilevel analyses showed larger impacts of "INSIGHTS" on math skills for students in classrooms with greater mean classroom-level shyness scores. Practice or Policy: Results suggest the importance of considering temperament at the classroom level when deciding how to allocate limited resources to the implementation of temperament-based intervention and/or social-emotional learning programs. Moreover, providing professional development supports to teachers of shy students--who are at risk for poorer instruction and academic skills--should be considered by policymakers and practitioners.
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Student Characteristics, Social Development, Emotional Development, Low Income Groups, Urban Schools, Randomized Controlled Trials, Teaching Methods, Personality Traits, Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Student Needs, At Risk Students, Minority Group Students, Pretests Posttests, Questionnaires, Observation, Check Lists, Attention, Reading Skills, Mathematics Skills, Achievement Tests, Personality Measures, Statistical Analysis
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Related Records: ED651419
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Kindergarten; Primary Education; Grade 1; Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Woodcock Johnson Tests of Achievement; Leiter International Performance Scale
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