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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Rege, Mari
• Størksen, Ingunn
• Solli, Ingeborg F
• Kalil, Ariel
• McClelland, Megan M
• Braak, Dieuwer ten
• Lenes, Ragnhild
• Lunde, Svanaug
• Breive, Svanhild
• Carlsen, Martin
• Erfjord, Ingvald
• Hundeland, Per Sigurd

Titel

The Effects of a Structured Curriculum on Preschool Effectiveness: A Field Experiment

Ist Teil von

• The Journal of human resources, 2024-03, Vol.59 (2), p.576-603

Ort / Verlag

Madison: University of Wisconsin Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Quelle

EBSCOhost Business Source Ultimate

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This study tests an intervention that introduces a structured curriculum for five-year-olds into the universal preschool context of Norway, where the business as usual is an unstructured curriculum. We conduct a field experiment with 691 five-year-olds in 71 preschools and measure treatment impacts on children's development in mathematics, language, and executive functioning. The nine-month intervention has effects on child development at post-intervention, and the effects persist one year following the end of the treatment. The effects are mainly driven by the preschools identified as low quality at baseline, indicating that a structured curriculum can reduce inequality in early childhood learning environments.