Unlocking early academic skills: children's cognitive processes, learning skills, and parental beliefs and behaviors predicting children's language and math skills.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

This study explored the emerging academic skills of five-year-old Estonian children, focusing on cognitive processes, learning skills, and parental beliefs and behaviors. While previous research has concentrated on a limited number of skill areas and aspects of the home environment, this study aimed to provide a more comprehensive understanding of children's early learning by studying multiple skills and parental characteristics concurrently.

Methods

Data was collected through direct e-assessments of children's skills alongside parental questionnaires (N = 279).

Results

We found positive relationships between children's cognitive processes, language, math, and learning skills, emphasizing the importance of considering multiple skills together. Whil

SUBMITTER: Meesak AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12405427 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature