Cognitieve competenties van jonge kinderen en structurele en culturele gezinskenmerken: Ontwikkelingen en samenhangen

Overview & Synopsis

Cognitive competencies of young children and structural and cultural familycharacteristics: developments and relations? In this paper three questions are answered: 1) are there developments in the languageand math performance of young children; 2) are there developments in anumber of family characteristics (parental educational level, ethnicity, home language,proficiency level in Dutch, and reading behavior); and 3) are there relationsbetween the children’s competencies and their parents’ characteristics? Data fromthree waves of the PRIMA cohort study (1996, 1998 and 2000) were analyzed withone-level and multilevel techniques. The sample included a total of 24,130 pupilsat 688 primary schools. The results showed there to be just one development, namelya slight rise in language performance between 1996 and 1998.