RT Journal Article
T1 The influence of kindergarten on students’ performance: The Spanish case.
A1 López-Agudo, Luis Alejandro
A1 Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David
K1 Educación - Modelos matemáticos
K1 Enseñanza preescolar
K1 Guarderías
K1 Lectura - Estudio y enseñanza
K1 Matemáticas - Estudio y enseñanza
AB Most Spanish parents enrol their children in preschool education (ages 3–5)as a way of preparing them for compulsory education. However, not allparents decide to enrol their children in kindergarten (ages 0 to 2). In thiscontext, the aim of the present study is to analyse the influence of kinder-garten attendance on students’ academic performance in third and sixthgrades. In order to address this issue, we employ census and longitudinaldata from the Spanish region of the Canary Islands and an instrumentalvariable approach to go beyond simple correlation. Our results show thatkindergarten attendance improves students’ performance in around onestandard deviation in third grade, but that this influence is reduced andalmost disappears when reaching sixth grade, particularly in reading.
PB Taylor & Francis
YR 2023
FD 2023-04-03
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/39346
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/39346
LA eng
NO López-Agudo, L. A., Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, O. D. (2023). “The influence of kindergarten on students' performance: the Spanish case”. The Social Science Journal, in press.
NO https://openpolicyfinder.jisc.ac.uk/id/publication/16775
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 20 ene 2026