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Toddler home math environment: Triangulating multi-method assessments in a U.S. Sample

INTRODUCTION: Current research has documented the home math environment (HME) of preschoolers and kindergarteners. Very few studies, however, have explored the number and spatial activities in which parents engage with children during their toddler years. METHODS: This study examined the HME of 157...

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Autores principales: Miller, Portia, Elliott, Leanne E., Podvysotska, Tamara, Ptak, Chelsea, Duong, Shirley, Fox, Danielle, Coulanges, Linsah, Libertus, Melissa, Bachman, Heather J., Votruba-Drzal, Elizabeth
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9989257/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36895738
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1105569
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author Miller, Portia
Elliott, Leanne E.
Podvysotska, Tamara
Ptak, Chelsea
Duong, Shirley
Fox, Danielle
Coulanges, Linsah
Libertus, Melissa
Bachman, Heather J.
Votruba-Drzal, Elizabeth
author_facet Miller, Portia
Elliott, Leanne E.
Podvysotska, Tamara
Ptak, Chelsea
Duong, Shirley
Fox, Danielle
Coulanges, Linsah
Libertus, Melissa
Bachman, Heather J.
Votruba-Drzal, Elizabeth
author_sort Miller, Portia
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description INTRODUCTION: Current research has documented the home math environment (HME) of preschoolers and kindergarteners. Very few studies, however, have explored the number and spatial activities in which parents engage with children during their toddler years. METHODS: This study examined the HME of 157 toddlers using several methodologies, including surveys, time diaries, and observations of math talk. Further, it examined correlations within and across data sources to identify areas of convergence and triangulation, and correlated HME measures with measures of toddlers’ number and spatial skills. RESULTS: Findings showed that, in general, uses of different types of math activities, including both number and spatial, were intercorrelated within method. Across methods, there was high intercorrelation between the frequency of math activities reported on parent surveys and the diversity of types of math activities endorsed in time diary interviews. Parent math talk gleaned from semi-structured interviews functioned as a separate aspect of the HME; different types of math talk shared few intercorrelations with engagement in math activities as reported in either surveys or time diaries. Finally, several HME measures positively correlated with toddlers’ math skills. DISCUSSION: Given extant research demonstrating that both math activities and math talk predict children’s math skills, our results stress the need for multimethod studies that differentiate among these HME opportunities.
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spelling pubmed-99892572023-03-08 Toddler home math environment: Triangulating multi-method assessments in a U.S. Sample Miller, Portia Elliott, Leanne E. Podvysotska, Tamara Ptak, Chelsea Duong, Shirley Fox, Danielle Coulanges, Linsah Libertus, Melissa Bachman, Heather J. Votruba-Drzal, Elizabeth Front Psychol Psychology INTRODUCTION: Current research has documented the home math environment (HME) of preschoolers and kindergarteners. Very few studies, however, have explored the number and spatial activities in which parents engage with children during their toddler years. METHODS: This study examined the HME of 157 toddlers using several methodologies, including surveys, time diaries, and observations of math talk. Further, it examined correlations within and across data sources to identify areas of convergence and triangulation, and correlated HME measures with measures of toddlers’ number and spatial skills. RESULTS: Findings showed that, in general, uses of different types of math activities, including both number and spatial, were intercorrelated within method. Across methods, there was high intercorrelation between the frequency of math activities reported on parent surveys and the diversity of types of math activities endorsed in time diary interviews. Parent math talk gleaned from semi-structured interviews functioned as a separate aspect of the HME; different types of math talk shared few intercorrelations with engagement in math activities as reported in either surveys or time diaries. Finally, several HME measures positively correlated with toddlers’ math skills. DISCUSSION: Given extant research demonstrating that both math activities and math talk predict children’s math skills, our results stress the need for multimethod studies that differentiate among these HME opportunities. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-02-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9989257/ /pubmed/36895738 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1105569 Text en Copyright © 2023 Miller, Elliott, Podvysotska, Ptak, Duong, Fox, Coulanges, Libertus, Bachman and Votruba-Drzal. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Ptak, Chelsea
Duong, Shirley
Fox, Danielle
Coulanges, Linsah
Libertus, Melissa
Bachman, Heather J.
Votruba-Drzal, Elizabeth
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title Toddler home math environment: Triangulating multi-method assessments in a U.S. Sample
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title_sort toddler home math environment: triangulating multi-method assessments in a u.s. sample
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9989257/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36895738
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1105569
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