Associations between school enjoyment at age 6 and later educational achievement: evidence from a UK cohort study.

ABSTRACT: Education is influenced by a broad range of factors but there has been limited research into the role that early school enjoyment plays in pupil's educational achievement. Here we used data from a UK cohort to answer three research questions. What is the association between early school enjoyment and later academic achievement? To what extent do family background factors underlie this association? Do sex differences in school enjoyment underlie sex differences in achievement? School enjoyment was self-reported in two questionnaires completed at age 6. We used multiple imputation to account for missing covariates in this study, giving an imputed sample size of 12,135. Children's school enjoyment at age 6 associated with sex and cognitive ability but not family socioeconomic background. For

SUBMITTER: Morris TT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8206254 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature