Early Mathematics Achievement Trajectories: English-Language Learner and Native English-Speaker Estimates, Using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 916-930

  Roberts, Greg ^a   Bryant, Diane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Achievement trend; Early childhood; Early mathematics; English language learner; Longitudinal survey

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TEST; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ACHIEVEMENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TESTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTILINGUALISM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 79960444627     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023865     Document Type: Article

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