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| Titre : |
Unequal educational outcomes for children with similar early childhood vocabulary but different socioeconomic circumstances |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Emma THORNTON, Auteur ; Danielle MATTHEWS, Auteur ; Praveetha PATALAY, Auteur ; Colin BANNARD, Auteur |
| Article en page(s) : |
p.1115-1126 |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Mots-clés : |
Vocabulary socioeconomic inequalities birth cohort longitudinal education |
| Index. décimale : |
PER Périodiques |
| Résumé : |
Background In a purely meritocratic society, educational outcomes would reflect ability and only ability. Vocabulary size is a common measure of cognitive ability that predicts educational outcomes but is confounded with socioeconomic circumstances (SEC). Methods In preregistered analyses of the nationally representative UK Millennium Cohort Study data (N?=?15,576), we used a series of multiple linear and logistic regression analyses to investigate the predictive value of age-5 vocabulary for age-16 educational outcomes and assess whether socioeconomic circumstance moderated this relation. Results We show that age-5 vocabulary strongly predicted age-16 educational attainment, even after adjusting for both SEC and caregiver vocabulary (OR?=?1.62, 95% CIs?=?[1.52; 1.72]; ??=?.22, 95% CIs?=?[0.19; 0.24]). SEC also predicts educational attainment (OR?=?2.05, 95% CIs?=?[1.92; 2.19]), and modifies the association between vocabulary and educational attainment, whereby a larger vocabulary was most advantageous for those in middle SEC groups (interaction term OR?=?1.09 [1.03; 1.15]). Conclusions Early child vocabulary is a strong predictor of children's educational outcomes ? even when controlling for proxy measures of the home environment and genetics. Nonetheless, children who enter school with strong vocabulary skills but disadvantaged socioeconomic circumstances still have only about a 50/50 chance of gaining gateway qualifications at age 16. |
| En ligne : |
https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.70117 |
| Permalink : |
https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=588 |
in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry > 67-7 (July 2026) . - p.1115-1126
[article] Unequal educational outcomes for children with similar early childhood vocabulary but different socioeconomic circumstances [texte imprimé] / Emma THORNTON, Auteur ; Danielle MATTHEWS, Auteur ; Praveetha PATALAY, Auteur ; Colin BANNARD, Auteur . - p.1115-1126. Langues : Anglais ( eng) in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry > 67-7 (July 2026) . - p.1115-1126
| Mots-clés : |
Vocabulary socioeconomic inequalities birth cohort longitudinal education |
| Index. décimale : |
PER Périodiques |
| Résumé : |
Background In a purely meritocratic society, educational outcomes would reflect ability and only ability. Vocabulary size is a common measure of cognitive ability that predicts educational outcomes but is confounded with socioeconomic circumstances (SEC). Methods In preregistered analyses of the nationally representative UK Millennium Cohort Study data (N?=?15,576), we used a series of multiple linear and logistic regression analyses to investigate the predictive value of age-5 vocabulary for age-16 educational outcomes and assess whether socioeconomic circumstance moderated this relation. Results We show that age-5 vocabulary strongly predicted age-16 educational attainment, even after adjusting for both SEC and caregiver vocabulary (OR?=?1.62, 95% CIs?=?[1.52; 1.72]; ??=?.22, 95% CIs?=?[0.19; 0.24]). SEC also predicts educational attainment (OR?=?2.05, 95% CIs?=?[1.92; 2.19]), and modifies the association between vocabulary and educational attainment, whereby a larger vocabulary was most advantageous for those in middle SEC groups (interaction term OR?=?1.09 [1.03; 1.15]). Conclusions Early child vocabulary is a strong predictor of children's educational outcomes ? even when controlling for proxy measures of the home environment and genetics. Nonetheless, children who enter school with strong vocabulary skills but disadvantaged socioeconomic circumstances still have only about a 50/50 chance of gaining gateway qualifications at age 16. |
| En ligne : |
https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.70117 |
| Permalink : |
https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=588 |
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Unequal educational outcomes for children with similar early childhood vocabulary but different socioeconomic circumstances in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 67-7 (July 2026)
