What impact does educational service attendance have on child development in kindergarden based on socioeconomic status?

Résumé

In 2006, Direction de santé publique de l’Agence de la santé et des services sociaux de Montréal conducted a Survey of the School Readiness of Montréal Children attending public five-year-old kindergartens in Montréal’s elementary schools. The survey showed that one in three children in kindergarten were vulnerable in at least one domain of development measured with the Early Development Instrument (EDI). When findings were shared with stakeholders in the field, one issue was at the heart of concerns: What is the link between children’s preschool experiences and school readiness?

It was in this context that in 2012, when the 2006 survey was reproduced province-wide—Québec Survey of Child Development in Kindergarten (QSCDK)—researchers at the public health department and a researcher from UQAM, in collaboration with Institut de la statistique du Québec, launched the Montréal Survey on the Preschool Experiences of Children in Kindergarten (MSPECK), a complementary survey of parents of a sample of Montréal children assessed as part of the QSCDK. The MSPECK documented several dimensions of early childhood experiences, including children’s health, family environment, quality and safety of home neighbourhood, families’ living conditions, and children’s preschool educational pathways. Links between children’s development in kindergarten and their early childhood experiences were analyzed by coupling data from the QSCDK with those of the MSPECK.

Authors

• Isabelle Laurin
• Danielle Guay
• Nathalie Bigras (UQAM)
• Michel Fournier

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