Early years non-cognitive skills
Overview
- Influence: Early years non-cognitive skills
- Domain: Student
- Sub-Domain: Prior knowledge and background
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Likely to have positive impact
- Influence Definition: Non-cognitive is defined as not relating to the process of acquiring knowledge through the senses, experience, or reasoning. Non-cognitive skills include conscientiousness, perseverance, teamwork, social conformity, engagement, and self-efficacy.
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 1
- Number of studies: 78
- Number of students: 0
- Number of effects: 78
- Weighted mean effect size: 0.20
- Robustness index: 2
Meta-Analyses
| Journal Title | Author | First Author's Country | Article Name | Year Published | Variable | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Effect Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nature Human Behaviour | Smithers, Sawyer, Chittleborough, Davies, Smith, & Lynch | USA | A systematic review and meta-analysis of effects of early life non-cognitive skills on academic, psychosocial, cognitive and health outcomes. achievement, psychosocial, language and cognitive, and health outcomes | 2018 | Early years Non-cognitive skills on achievement | 78 | 0 | 78 | 0.20 |
| TOTAL/AVERAGE | 78 | 0 | 78 | 0.20 | |||||