Does pre-primary education reach those who need it most?
- Attendance in pre-primary education is associated with better student performance later on.
- Fifteen-year-old students in 2012 were more likely than 15-year-olds in 2003 to have attended at least one year of pre-primary education.
- The gap in pre-primary attendance rates between socio-economically advantaged and disadvantaged pupils is growing.
Guter Start: 15-Jährige, die vor der Schulzeit mindestens ein Jahr einen Kindergarten oder ähnliches besucht haben, schneiden im PISA-Test teils erheblich besser ab als Kinder ohne diese Erfahrung. In der Slowakei, Frankreich und Belgien liegt der Leistungsunterschied in Mathematik bei mehr als zwei Schuljahren.
Is is true for nearly every endeavour, the better prepared one is, the greater the likelihood of success. Education is no exception. Young children who have learned how to behave in groups and have been introduced to the basics of letters and numbers tend to be more open to and ready for the school experience than children who haven’t.