Does the Opportunity-Propensity Framework predict the early mathematics skills of low-income pre-kindergarten children?

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 259-270

  Wang, Aubrey H ^a   Shen, Feng ^a   Byrnes, James P ^b  

^a SAINT JOSEPH S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Early childhood; Low income children; Mathematics; Opportunity Propensity Framework; Preschool; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878414612     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2013.04.004     Document Type: Article

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