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Demographic, socioeconomic, and neighbourhood characteristics of vulnerable children at school entry / : Caractéristiques démographiques, socioéconomiques et résidentielles des enfants vulnérables à l'entrée à l'école

10 Dec 2012

Based on an adapted version studies conducted in Canada and elsewhere in the world have of the early Development instrument (EDI), administered as part of shown that a child’s developmental level at the end of the preschool the Québec longitudinal study of child Development (see the box period is strongly associated with health status as well as future entitled about the survey on page 11), the ai [...] The data drawn from it therefore reflect the situation assessment of a child’s readiness for school based on his/her knowledge of children in Québec kindergartens excluding those who came to the and observations of the child during the school year. [...] The ISQ estimates that approximately 7% of children 6 years of age in 2004, namely at the time of the seventh data collection of the QLSCD, came to Québec after their birth and were therefore not part of the target population. [...] It indicates the degree of homogeneity or internal consistency; the closer the value is to 1, the higher the reliability of the instrument. [...] These data support the results of other research on the predictive validity of the EDI, in particular the domain of language and cognitive development as it relates to academic achievement.23,24,25 Figure 1 Proportion of children1 whose academic performance was below average in Grade 4 of elementary school by whether they were considered vulnerable in kindergarten,2 for each domain and in at least
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Authors

Desrosierset, Hélène, Tétreault, Karine, Boivin, Michel

Pages
12
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario

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