This study investigated the effect of kindergarten entrance age on subsequent academic achievement in the primary grades. / The subjects of the study were 52 children (26 boys and 26 girls) who entered kindergarten during the 1982-1983 school term and attended an all white, suburban, middle class elementary school in Santa Rosa County, Florida. / Achievement data for each subject included raw scores on each of ten subtests of the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills, which was administered at the end of the second grade year. Intelligence data for each subject was obtained from the Test of Cognitive Skills which was also administered at the end of the second grade year. / Pearson correlations between kindergarten entrance age and second grade achievement and intelligence were computed for the group as a whole and for the group divided by sex. Independent t-test procedures were used to determine if any significant differences in achievement or intelligence might have been attributable to sex. / No significant correlations between kindergarten entrance age and achievement at the second grade level were found to exist. The research hypotheses, which anticipated significant positive correlations, were rejected. / A secondary analysis of achievement data from kindergarten and grades 1 and 3 was also performed. Chronological age did not appear to be a factor in achievement at grades kindergarten, 1, or 2. / At grade 3 the younger boys outperformed the older boys in several areas. However, the analysis of covariance procedure, using intelligence as the covariate, indicated that this superior performance was due mainly to the superior intelligence of the younger boys, not to chronological age. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-10, Section: A, page: 3655. / Thesis (Educat.D.)--The Florida State University, 1986.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75939 |
| Contributors | EILERTSEN, ANITA ROBERTS., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 157 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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