Department of Health and Human Development, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA; Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.
Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.
J Exp Child Psychol. 2022 Sep;221:105453. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2022.105453. Epub 2022 May 20.
Extensive literature has documented socioeconomic status (SES) disparities in young children's standardized math achievement, which primarily reflect differences in basic number and arithmetic skills. In addition, growing evidence indicates that direct assessments of executive function (EF) both predict standardized math achievement and mediate SES differences in standardized math tests. However, early spatial skills and children's approximate number system (ANS) acuity, critical components of later math competence, have been largely absent in this past research. The current study examined SES associations with multiple direct assessments of early ANS, cardinality, and spatial skills, as well as standardized math achievement, in a socioeconomically diverse sample of 4-year-old children (N = 149). Structural equation modeling revealed SES effect sizes of .21 for geometric sensitivity skills, .23 for ANS acuity, .39 for cardinality skills, and .28 for standardized math achievement. Furthermore, relations between SES and children's spatial skills, ANS acuity, cardinality, and standardized math skills were mediated by a composite measure of children's EF skills. Implications of pervasive SES disparities across multiple domains of early math development, as well as the mitigating role of EF, are discussed.
大量文献记录了社会经济地位(SES)对幼儿标准化数学成绩的差异,这主要反映了基本数字和算术技能的差异。此外,越来越多的证据表明,执行功能(EF)的直接评估既可以预测标准化数学成绩,也可以解释标准化数学测试中 SES 差异的中介作用。然而,在过去的研究中,早期的空间技能和儿童的近似数量系统(ANS)敏锐度,这是后期数学能力的关键组成部分,在很大程度上被忽视了。本研究在一个社会经济多样化的 4 岁儿童样本(N=149)中,考察了 SES 与多种早期 ANS、基数和空间技能以及标准化数学成绩的直接评估之间的关联。结构方程模型显示,几何敏感性技能的 SES 效应大小为.21,ANS 敏锐度为.23,基数技能为.39,标准化数学成绩为.28。此外,SES 与儿童的空间技能、ANS 敏锐度、基数和标准化数学技能之间的关系,由儿童 EF 技能的综合衡量标准来中介。讨论了广泛存在的 SES 差异对早期数学发展多个领域的影响,以及 EF 的缓解作用。
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