TY - JOUR
T1 - Early Mathematics Skills From Prekindergarten to First Grade
T2 - Score Changes and Ability Group Differences in Kentucky, Nebraska, and Shanghai Samples
AU - Ryoo, Ji Hoon
AU - Molfese, Victoria J.
AU - Heaton, Ruth
AU - Zhou, Xin
AU - Brown, E. Todd
AU - Prokasky, Amanda
AU - Davis, Erika
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported in part by a grant (R305K05186: P. Starkey (PI), University of California-Berkeley, Sub-Award V. Molfese (PI), University of Louisville) from the U.S Department of Education, by the University of Louisville and University of Nebraska - Lincoln; and in part by a grant (DUE 0831835: James Lewis (PI) and Ruth Heaton (Co-PI), University of Nebraska-Lincoln) and by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Xin Zhou’s project titled “Early Childhood Performance Assessment” received financial support from the School of Early Childhood and Special Education, East China Normal University.
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PY - 2014/8/1
Y1 - 2014/8/1
N2 - The 2011 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study shows average mathematics scores of U.S. fourth graders are lower than children in many Asian countries. There are questions about differences in mathematics skills at younger ages. This study examines differences in score growth for High-, Average-, and Low-performing children in two U.S. states and one city in China. The samples are not representative of site populations and are different in socioeconomic status (SES). Test of Early Mathematics Ability–3 (TEMA-3; Ginsburg & Baroody, 2003) scores were obtained at four time points from the longitudinal samples. Children in Shanghai had higher scores than children in Kentucky and Nebraska; the majority of children in Shanghai scored in the High group, whereas most children in Kentucky and Nebraska were in the Average group. The best fitting growth models were nonlinear and the growth patterns varied across samples. More research is needed to understand how classroom instruction, home environments, parenting, and SES impact growth of TEMA-3 scores.
AB - The 2011 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study shows average mathematics scores of U.S. fourth graders are lower than children in many Asian countries. There are questions about differences in mathematics skills at younger ages. This study examines differences in score growth for High-, Average-, and Low-performing children in two U.S. states and one city in China. The samples are not representative of site populations and are different in socioeconomic status (SES). Test of Early Mathematics Ability–3 (TEMA-3; Ginsburg & Baroody, 2003) scores were obtained at four time points from the longitudinal samples. Children in Shanghai had higher scores than children in Kentucky and Nebraska; the majority of children in Shanghai scored in the High group, whereas most children in Kentucky and Nebraska were in the Average group. The best fitting growth models were nonlinear and the growth patterns varied across samples. More research is needed to understand how classroom instruction, home environments, parenting, and SES impact growth of TEMA-3 scores.
KW - STEM
KW - United States–China comparisons
KW - ability grouping
KW - early childhood education
KW - mathematics
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U2 - 10.1177/1932202X14538975
DO - 10.1177/1932202X14538975
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84936994585
SN - 1932-202X
VL - 25
SP - 162
EP - 188
JO - Journal of Advanced Academics
JF - Journal of Advanced Academics
IS - 3
ER -