Article Accepted Manuscript

Developing a Rigorous Measure of the Pre-school Home Mathematics Environment

Author(s) / Creator(s)

Cahoon, Abbie
Cassidy, Tony
Purpura, David
Simms, Victoria

Abstract / Description

Children begin pre-school with varying levels of school readiness. Those children who enter pre-school with better foundational mathematics skills are more likely to succeed in school than those who do not. This initial variation in early mathematics suggests that experiences outside of the school setting, namely the home environment, may support learning and development. This study aims to systematically develop a comprehensive home mathematics environment questionnaire that reliably assesses the experiences of pre-school children (i.e. 3-5-year-olds) following recent recognised scale development and validation methods. Four studies were used to develop and validate the Pre-school Home Mathematics Questionnaire (PHMQ). Study 1 focused on (a) item generation through individual, in-depth interviews with parents of young children and (b) identifying previous questions from other home mathematics environment (HME) questionnaires to be incorporated into the PHMQ. Study 2 involved questionnaire refinement and was used to assess the psychometric properties of the new measure while addressing construct validity (i.e., factor structure and scale score reliability). Study 3 assessed content and criterion validity of the scale. Finally, Study 4 focused on construct validity through confirmatory factor analysis. Overall, the four studies demonstrate construct, content, and criterion validity. Hence, the newly developed PHMQ satisfies the American Psychological Association (APA) standards for psychometric adequacy.

Keyword(s)

pre-school questionnaire home numeracy environment home mathematics environment construct validity content validity criterion validity

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Date of first publication

2021-04-19

Journal title

Journal of Numerical Cognition

Publisher

PsychArchives

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acceptedVersion

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reviewed

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Cahoon, A., Cassidy, T., Purpura, D., & Simms, V. (in press). Developing a rigorous measure of the pre-school home mathematics environment [Author accepted manuscript]. Journal of Numerical Cognition. http://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.4778
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Cahoon, Abbie
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Cassidy, Tony
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Purpura, David
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Simms, Victoria
  • PsychArchives acquisition timestamp
    2021-04-19T10:15:50Z
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    2021-04-19T10:15:50Z
  • Date of first publication
    2021-04-19
  • Abstract / Description
    Children begin pre-school with varying levels of school readiness. Those children who enter pre-school with better foundational mathematics skills are more likely to succeed in school than those who do not. This initial variation in early mathematics suggests that experiences outside of the school setting, namely the home environment, may support learning and development. This study aims to systematically develop a comprehensive home mathematics environment questionnaire that reliably assesses the experiences of pre-school children (i.e. 3-5-year-olds) following recent recognised scale development and validation methods. Four studies were used to develop and validate the Pre-school Home Mathematics Questionnaire (PHMQ). Study 1 focused on (a) item generation through individual, in-depth interviews with parents of young children and (b) identifying previous questions from other home mathematics environment (HME) questionnaires to be incorporated into the PHMQ. Study 2 involved questionnaire refinement and was used to assess the psychometric properties of the new measure while addressing construct validity (i.e., factor structure and scale score reliability). Study 3 assessed content and criterion validity of the scale. Finally, Study 4 focused on construct validity through confirmatory factor analysis. Overall, the four studies demonstrate construct, content, and criterion validity. Hence, the newly developed PHMQ satisfies the American Psychological Association (APA) standards for psychometric adequacy.
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  • Publication status
    acceptedVersion
  • Review status
    reviewed
  • Citation
    Cahoon, A., Cassidy, T., Purpura, D., & Simms, V. (in press). Developing a rigorous measure of the pre-school home mathematics environment [Author accepted manuscript]. Journal of Numerical Cognition. http://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.4778
  • ISSN
    2363-8761
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/4217
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.4778
  • Language of content
    eng
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  • Publisher
    PsychArchives
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  • Is version of
    https://doi.org/10.5964/jnc.6373
  • Is version of
    https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.6097
  • Is related to
    https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.4980
  • Is related to
    https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.6097
  • Keyword(s)
    pre-school
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  • Keyword(s)
    questionnaire
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  • Keyword(s)
    home numeracy environment
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  • Keyword(s)
    home mathematics environment
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  • Keyword(s)
    construct validity
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  • Keyword(s)
    content validity
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  • Keyword(s)
    criterion validity
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  • Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)
    150
  • Title
    Developing a Rigorous Measure of the Pre-school Home Mathematics Environment
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  • DRO type
    article
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  • Journal title
    Journal of Numerical Cognition
  • Visible tag(s)
    PsychOpen GOLD
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  • Visible tag(s)
    Accepted Manuscript
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