Attendance in early childhood education and care programmes and academic proficiencies at age 15

Abstract

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The association between school-level SES and emergent literacy in Italy (La relación entre el nivel socioeconómico a nivel de centro escolar y la alfabetización emergente en Italia)

“…Interestingly, a recent working paper released by OECD based on the PISA database (Balladares & Kankaraš, 2020) verified the existence of a relationship between students' ECEC (Early Childhood Education and Care) attendance and their later academic proficiency using PISA 2015 data. The result showed that SES played an important role, as there was a significant association between children's SES and the age of entry in ECEC.…”

“…Curiosamente, un reciente documento de trabajo, publicado por la OCDE, basado en el informe PISA (Balladares & Kankaraš, 2020) corroboró la existencia de una relación entre la asistencia a un centro de educación y cuidado durante la primera infancia (ECEC, por sus siglas inglesas) y el rendimiento académico posterior, utilizando datos del informe PISA de 2015. Los resultados mostraron que el NSE desempeña un papel importante, dada la existencia de una relación significativa entre el NSE de los alumnos y la edad de ingreso en un centro ECEC.…”