Young Children`s Home Learning and Preschool Participation Experiences during the Pandemic.

NIEER 2020 Preschool Learning Activities Survey: Technical Report and Selected Findings

Kurzbeschreibung

COVID-19 has brought chaotic change to early education. Most of the nation's 5 million 3- to 5-year-olds attending preschool classrooms had their attendance cut short in March 2020. Preschool-age children in family day care or at home with parents and other family members had their daily routines disrupted. Parents now often work from home and families "shelter in place." These changes may have important consequences for young children's learning and development, and mental health. Moreover, impacts of the pandemic and its consequences are likely to vary with child and family characteristics. To learn how the pandemic is impacting young children's learning experiences the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) developed a parent survey on: (1) children's home learning activities during the pandemic; (2) children's preschool participation and program closures; and (3) services children and parents received to support emergency remote learning when preschool programs closed their classroom operations due to the pandemic. NIEER adopted some questions from previous national surveys such as the National Household Survey Education Survey to compare pre- and post-school closure activity patterns. The survey was conducted between May 22 and June 5, 2020. Selected panel members received an email invitation to complete the survey and were asked to do so at their earliest convenience. The survey was fielded in both English and Spanish. Respondents answered questions about a 3, 4, or 5 year-old child in their household, including items about the child's daily activities during the pandemic and the child's childcare, preschool, or kindergarten program both before and during the pandemic. This report introduces the survey data by presenting descriptive statistics for many, but not all, questions in the survey. Simple bivariate correlations may reflect complex relationships among other variables measured and unmeasured by the survey. The results presented in this report provide a broad overview of young children's activities, especially their learning experiences in and out of the home, since preschools closed in response to the pandemic. The information contained in the survey offers opportunities for more in-depth and specialized analyses.

Schlagwörter

Distance-Schooling, Familiensituation, International, Kinder im Vorschulalter, Quantitative Studie, USA

Quellenangabe

Barnett, Steven, Jung, Kwanghee, Nores, Milagros (2020). Young Children`s Home Learning and Preschool Participation Experiences during the Pandemic. NIEER 2020 Preschool Learning Activities Survey: Technical Report and Selected Findings.