Short-Term Impact of an Early Childhood Education Intervention in Rural Thailand

Short-Term Impact of an Early Childhood Education Intervention in Rural Thailand

This paper evaluates the short-term impact of an early childhood education intervention on child development. The program randomly assigned an additional 19 teachers to coteach using a new curriculum based on the HighScope approach, in 19 out of 50 child care centers in rural Thailand. The main resu...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of human capital 2021-06, Vol.15 (2), p.269-290
Hauptverfasser: Chujan, Wisuwat, Kilenthong, Weerachart T.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Child care
Child development
Childhood
Curricula
Day care centers
Early childhood education
Early intervention
Frühkindliche Bildung
Kinderbetreuungseinrichtung
Ländlicher Raum
Persönlichkeitspsychologie
Short term
Social skills
Soziale Kompetenz
Teachers
Thailand
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Zusammenfassung:This paper evaluates the short-term impact of an early childhood education intervention on child development. The program randomly assigned an additional 19 teachers to coteach using a new curriculum based on the HighScope approach, in 19 out of 50 child care centers in rural Thailand. The main result indicates that the intervention had a positive and significant effect on child development in gross motor and personal and social skills with an effect size of 0.40 standard deviations for the benchmark case.
ISSN:1932-8575
1932-8664
DOI:10.1086/712727