Does One More Year of Rural Preschool Education Have More Dosage Effects?

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10.2991/978-94-6463-040-4_166How to use a DOI?

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poverty-stricken area; preschool education intervention; dose effect; fade out effect

Abstract

Inadequate and unbalanced development of preschool education is a prominent problem of China’s education. development. In poverty-stricken rural areas, the population of pre-school-aged children generally exceeds the local capacity to provide services, resulting in some pre-school-aged children, especially those aged 3 to 4, could not participate in kindergarten. Local governments and authorities often have to weigh the scale and quality of preschool service, whether to provide two-year or three-year preschool services in rural areas. The "One Village, One Preschool (OVOP) " program aims to ensure that all pre-school-aged children in China's poverty-stricken rural areas can receive fair and quality preschool education. This study followed 23,775 children from preschool (4 years old) to fourth grade (10 years old) in a poverty county in Guizhou Province. Multiple methods including linear model, discrete model and multiple propensity score weighted matching (MPSW) were used to analyze the relationship between variables, interventions and effects. The results showed that children of the 3-year OVOP group and the 2-year OVOP group had very similar scores at the beginning of the first grade, 0.14 SD behind the children of the public kindergarten group. However, by the third and fourth grades, children of the 3-year OVOP group had catched up with children of the public kindergarten group, compared to the children of the 2-year OVOP group had lagged behind by about 0.2 SD. The results concluded that in poverty-stricken rural areas, children received one more year preschool education can reduce the long-term fade-out effects.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Chen Zhao
AU  - Xingli Zhang
AU  - Si Chen
AU  - Jiannong Shi
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/27
TI  - Does One More Year of Rural Preschool Education Have More Dosage Effects?
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Education (IC-ICAIE 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1102
EP  - 1116
SN  - 2589-4900
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-040-4_166
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-040-4_166
ID  - Zhao2022
ER  -