Title: Cognitive science in the field: A preschool intervention durably improves non-symbolic, but not symbolic, mathematics

Type Dataset Dillon, Moira R., Kannan, Harini, Dean, Joshua T., Spelke, Elizabeth S., Duflo, Esther (2017): Cognitive science in the field: A preschool intervention durably improves non-symbolic, but not symbolic, mathematics. Harvard Dataverse. Dataset. https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/LCLKDT

Authors: Dillon, Moira R. (New York University) ; Kannan, Harini (Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab) ; Dean, Joshua T. (Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ; Spelke, Elizabeth S. (Department of Psychology, Harvard University) ; Duflo, Esther (Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ; Dean, Joshua (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ; Dillon, Moira R. (New York University) ; Kannan, Harini (Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab) ; Spelke, Elizabeth S. (Department of Psychology, Harvard University) ; Duflo, Esther (MIT) ;

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Summary

Many children in developing countries grow up in economically poor environments and often also suffer from poorly performing educational systems. Dillon et al. designed inexpensive, locally sourced games—five for mathematics and five for social cognition—for use in preschools in Delhi. They measured the effects of these interventions 3, 9, and 15 months later. Compared with those who played social games, the kids who played math games showed enhanced performance on both nonsymbolic and symbolic math assessments at the 3-month time point. However, only the nonsymbolic improvements persisted for as long as a year.

More information

• DOI: 10.7910/DVN/LCLKDT

Subjects

• Social Sciences

Dates

• Publication date: 2017
• Submitted: March 16, 2017
• Updated: April 01, 2020

Rights

• info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 CC0 1.0

Format

electronic resource

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