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Record W4414137947 · doi:10.1080/10409289.2025.2559338

Cumulative Family Sociodemographic Risk and Preschoolers’ Language Skills Development: The Mediating Role of the Home Literacy Environment

2025· article· en· W4414137947 on OpenAlex
Angélique Laurent, Marie‐Josée Letarte, Jean‐Pascal Lemelin

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Bibliographic record

VenueEarly Education and Development · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicChild Development and Digital Technology
Canadian institutionsUniversité de Sherbrooke
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLiteracyFamily literacySocioeconomic statusHome languageLanguage developmentLanguage proficiencyFamily incomeStatistical analysis

Abstract

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Research Findings: This longitudinal study examined the mediating role of home literacy environment (HLE) in the relationship between family sociodemographic risk factors and preschoolers’ language skills during their transition to kindergarten. A sample of 142 children showing vulnerability regarding school readiness were assessed three times. Eight months before kindergarten, family sociodemographic information was collected, and a cumulative family sociodemographic risk score was calculated. Children’s language skills (i.e. receptive and expressive vocabulary and sentence recall) were also collected at this timepoint. Four months later, three components of HLE (i.e. frequency of parents’ involvement in literacy activities, quality of parents’ involvement in literacy activities, and availability of learning materials at home) were measured. At the end of kindergarten, 1 year later, children’s language skills were reassessed. One main indirect association was found: cumulative risk was related to expressive vocabulary through the availability of learning materials. Practice or Policy: These findings highlight that interventions with parents of preschoolers showing vulnerability regarding school readiness should focus on supporting parental practices and helping parents gain access to learning materials through school, social services, and other community resources.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.506
Threshold uncertainty score0.645

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.004
GPT teacher head0.251
Teacher spread0.246 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it