Protecting the development of 5-11 year olds from the impacts of early disadvantage: The Role of Primary School Academic Effectiveness

Conference item

Objectives:
1. To determine whether attending a more academically effective primary school can protect children’s self regulation and academic attainment between 6 to 11 years from prior early disadvantages that were experienced before school-entry at age 5.

2 . To better integrate the mutually-informative findings and approaches that come from the distinct but interrelated ‘Educational Effectiveness Research (EER)’ and ‘Risk and Resilience’ research traditions as both seek to differentiate the effects of a child’s background from the impacts of day-to-day interactions and processes (Rutter and Sroufe, 2000; Sammons, 1999).

Research question:
To what extent can the academic effectiveness of primary schools protect child development from adverse effects that come from experiencing multiple (early) disadvantages?

Authors: Sammons, P; Hall, J; Sylva, K; Melhuish, E; Siraj-Blatchford, I

• Publication status: Not published
• Peer review status: Reviewed (other)
• Publisher: EARLI
• Host title: EARLI 2012 SIG 18 “Educational Effectiveness”
• Journal: EARLI SIG 18 2012
• Publication date: 2012-08-31
• Acceptance date: 2012-01-30
• Event location: Zurich, Switzerland
• Keywords: SBTMR