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- Title
The self-reported academic self-concept of four-year-old children: Global and fixed, or nuanced and changing in the year before school?
- Authors
Cohrssen, Caroline; Niklas, Frank; Logan, Danielle; Tayler, Collette
- Abstract
STUDIES HAVE SHOWN THAT academic self-concept and academic achievement are closely related and that academic self-concept is multidimensional. Most studies on academic self-concept have been conducted with school age children and little is known about developing academic self-concept in younger children. In this study, we investigated the evolving academic self-concept of a sample of 97 four-year-old children attending four different early childhood settings across Melbourne, Australia, during the year prior to school commencement. Analysis indicated that at this age, academic self-concept remains a global construct rather than distinguishable into literacy and numeracy self-concepts, and has little connection with children's actual performance on a range of assessment measures. In addition, children overestimated their academic selfconcept to a lesser degree at the end of the year than at the start of the year. Implications for early childhood education pedagogy are discussed.
- Subjects
ACADEMIC self-perception; SELF-perception in adolescence; SELF-perception testing; EARLY childhood educators; EARLY childhood education
- Publication
Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2016, Vol 41, Issue 3, p4
- ISSN
1836-9391
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/183693911604100302