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The Relationship Of Home Environment And Kindergarten Readiness., Nancye C. Williams
The Relationship Of Home Environment And Kindergarten Readiness., Nancye C. Williams
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between home environment and school readiness of children entering kindergarten in a rural East Tennessee county. Family and home environment variables included family income, family structure, parents' education, participation in literacy activities, availability of home learning tools, and amount of children's television viewing. A self-reported parent survey was used to gather information about the family environment; the Brigance K Screen was used to determine entering kindergartner's readiness for school. Three hundred and thirty eight children and parents participated.
An initial analysis of data incorporated simple descriptive statistics in the form …