TY - JOUR
T1 - School Readiness among U.S. Children
T2 - Development of a Pilot Measure
AU - Ghandour, Reem M.
AU - Moore, Kristin Anderson
AU - Murphy, Kelly
AU - Bethell, Christina
AU - Jones, Jessica R.
AU - Harwood, Robin
AU - Buerlein, Jessica
AU - Kogan, Michael
AU - Lu, Michael
N1 - Funding Information:
Portions of the work described in this manuscript, including item analysis and confirmatory factor analyses, were conducted under contract #GS10F0030R between the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau and Child Trends. Contributions to the manuscript content from the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative were in part conducted under the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Maternal and Child Health Measurement Research Network grant (Number UA6MC30375) to the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, This is a U.S. Government work and not under copyright protection in the US; foreign copyright protection may apply.
Copyright:
Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/8/15
Y1 - 2019/8/15
N2 - No single U.S. data source supports a multidimensional, population-based assessment of young children’s readiness to start school. This changed with the 2016 National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH). This study provides an overview of the process by which content related to multiple domains of school readiness was identified, refined and selected for inclusion in the NSCH; describes the analytic processes and resultant outcomes associated with the development of domain-specific and summary measures of school readiness; and discusses opportunities to refine and validate these pilot measures to provide a national portrait of young children’s progress towards timely mastery of skills and competencies needed to be “Healthy and Ready to Learn.” The NSCH, an annual, address-based, self-administered survey, produces national- and state-level data on the physical and emotional health of children ages 0–17 years. In 2016, 22 items were added to assess school readiness among 3–5 year-olds and pilot summary measures of “Healthy and Ready to Learn” were developed. Four distinct domains were identified: Early Learning Skills, Self-Regulation, Social-Emotional Development, and Physical Health/Motor Development. Over four in ten children were “On Track” across all four domains while another three in ten were on track in three of the four domains. One in ten are reported to be “On Track” in ≤ 1 domain. New NSCH content and related summary measures of “Healthy and Ready to Learn” present a unique opportunity to extend what is known about young children’s school-readiness at both the national and state levels. Continued measure development and validation is required.
AB - No single U.S. data source supports a multidimensional, population-based assessment of young children’s readiness to start school. This changed with the 2016 National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH). This study provides an overview of the process by which content related to multiple domains of school readiness was identified, refined and selected for inclusion in the NSCH; describes the analytic processes and resultant outcomes associated with the development of domain-specific and summary measures of school readiness; and discusses opportunities to refine and validate these pilot measures to provide a national portrait of young children’s progress towards timely mastery of skills and competencies needed to be “Healthy and Ready to Learn.” The NSCH, an annual, address-based, self-administered survey, produces national- and state-level data on the physical and emotional health of children ages 0–17 years. In 2016, 22 items were added to assess school readiness among 3–5 year-olds and pilot summary measures of “Healthy and Ready to Learn” were developed. Four distinct domains were identified: Early Learning Skills, Self-Regulation, Social-Emotional Development, and Physical Health/Motor Development. Over four in ten children were “On Track” across all four domains while another three in ten were on track in three of the four domains. One in ten are reported to be “On Track” in ≤ 1 domain. New NSCH content and related summary measures of “Healthy and Ready to Learn” present a unique opportunity to extend what is known about young children’s school-readiness at both the national and state levels. Continued measure development and validation is required.
KW - Early childhood development
KW - Early childhood education
KW - Indicators
KW - National Survey of Children’s health
KW - School readiness
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U2 - 10.1007/s12187-018-9586-8
DO - 10.1007/s12187-018-9586-8
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85066626361
SN - 1874-897X
VL - 12
SP - 1389
EP - 1411
JO - Child Indicators Research
JF - Child Indicators Research
IS - 4
ER -