ERIC Number: EJ1462385
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Apr
Pages: 12
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ISSN: ISSN-1082-3301
EISSN: EISSN-1573-1707
Available Date: 2024-07-08
Is the Whole Greater than the Sum of Its Parts? Impacts on Child Outcomes from a Home-Visiting Parenting Program and Its Interaction with Preschool
Remy Pages1; Tracy Payne2; Herman T. Knopf1
Early Childhood Education Journal, v53 n4 p1313-1324 2025
This study evaluates the effects of a weekly home-visiting parenting program designed to enhance parent-child engagement with educationally-enriching activities and its potential interaction with children's participation in state-funded preschool. Utilizing a comprehensive dataset linked across various administrative sources, we employed a quasi-experimental approach featuring inverse probability weighting regression adjustment and nearest neighbor matching to assess outcomes as measured at or leading up to kindergarten entry. We focused on a cohort of 2,000 diverse children born between 2012 and 2016, aged three and four at the intervention's onset. Participation in the home-visiting program was associated with significant positive effects on children's cognitive skills, IDEA Part B service uptake, and the likelihood of reported child maltreatment, which persisted after adjusting for state-funded preschool participation. We found no statistical evidence of interactions between the program and preschool, underscoring the program's additive contributions to early childhood development and family well-being.
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Education, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, Parents, Home Visits, Parent Teacher Cooperation, School Readiness, Thinking Skills, Program Effectiveness, Family Environment, Family Problems
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Preschool Education; Adult Education
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Language: English
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Author Affiliations: 1University of Florida, Anita Zucker Center for Excellence in Early Childhood Studies, Gainesville, United States; 2University of South Florida, Tampa, United States