Julie J Neiworth, Ana D Knighten, Christopher Leppink-Shands
Is inferential reasoning a distinctly human cognitive feature? Testing reasoning in cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus)
Journal of comparative psychology (Washington, D.C. : 1983)
parents knowledge math skills preschoolaged children develop might important component home math environment hme might shape math beliefs efforts support preschoolers math development study aimed systematically develop measures parents knowledge two critical early math topics numeracy patterning across five studies conducted total 616 us parents 3 5yearolds 66 mothers 54 sons 73 white 60 collegeeducated parents recruited via cloudresearch university database study 1 focused item generation revise previous measure capture wider set childrens early math skills analysis psychometric properties measure completed 161 parents via survey study 2 included analysis new sample parents n 21 responded measures twice across two weeks explore testretest reliability measures iteratively revised administered new samples analyzed studies 3 n 45 4 n 46 5 n 344 measures demonstrated adequate internal consistency validity construct convergent discriminant study 5 positively related parents numeracy patterning beliefs children overall newly developed measures satisfy standards development adequate measure used better understand parents know early math development relates hme facilitate