The Effect of Early Education Programming on Later Academic Outcomes (65906)
Session Chair: Izhar Oplatka
Saturday, January 7, 2023 (13:55)
Session: Session 4
Room: 317A
Presentation Type:Oral Presentation
We study the impact of school-based family drop-in centres on later academic achievement for preschool children in British Columbia, Canada. We find, by exploiting a number of different research designs, that participation in the program positively impacted later academic performance. More specifically, participation increased Grade 4 literacy and numeracy scores by roughly three percent in province-wide standardized testing. We further estimate, using back-of-the-envelope calculations, that hosting this program in a school results in a nearly two percent increase in a school’s overall average Grade 4 literacy and numeracy scores. Our results show that this large-scale early childhood intervention has a short-term positive impact on academic performance.
Authors:
Elizabeth Dhuey, University of Toronto, Canada
Jon Duan, British Columbia Ministry of Education, Canada
Muhammad Ali Sajid, University of Toronto, Canada
Brett Wilmer, British Columbia Ministry of Education, Canada
About the Presenter(s)
Professor Elizabeth Dhuey is a University Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer at University of Toronto in Canada
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