Dissertations
Date of Award
7-2019
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Education (EdD)
Department
Educational Leadership
Advisor
Dr. Wendy Ellis
Abstract
The current study explored the effects of ABC prekindergarten program status by gender and ethnicity on early literacy and mathematics readiness for students entering kindergarten in a large urban school district in Central Arkansas. The study used scores for kindergarten students categorized by their prekindergarten participation in the school district’s ABC prekindergarten program (participated versus no participation), gender, and ethnicity (White and non-White). The NWEA MAP Growth assessment was used to measure literacy and mathematics achievement in all nine elementary schools in the Central Arkansas school district. In all four hypotheses, the main effect of ABC prekindergarten program participation was not significant. The second hypothesis revealed a significant main effect of gender on mathematics achievement with the females, on average, significantly outscoring the males. For the third hypothesis, the results indicated a significant main effect of ethnicity on literacy achievement. In this instance, the non- White students scored significantly lower on literacy compared to their White counterparts. Finally, for Hypothesis 4, there were two significant results in mathematics, the main effect of ethnicity and the interaction effect of ethnicity and ABC vii prekindergarten program participation. Because the interaction effect helped explain the main effect of ethnicity, attention was given to the simple main effects analysis. The results of the simple effects analysis of the interaction indicated a significant difference between two of the pairings. First, the non-White students not participating in the ABC program scored significantly lower compared to the White students who did not participate in the ABC prekindergarten program. Second, the non-White students not participating in the ABC prekindergarten program scored significantly lower compared to the non-White students who participated in the ABC prekindergarten program.
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Recommended Citation
Trotter-Coleman, Shanda R., "Participation Status in an Arkansas Better Chance Program on Early Literacy and Mathematics Readiness" (2019). Dissertations. 49.
https://scholarworks.harding.edu/hu-etd/49
