Non-cognitive abilities and pre-school: a case study for children in Brazil

Danielle Machado () and João Ricardo Rodrigues Moreira ()
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João Ricardo Rodrigues Moreira: UFF

Chapter 33 in Investigaciones de Economía de la Educación, 2016, vol. 11, pp 605-618 from Asociación de Economía de la Educación

Abstract: The objective is to investigate the effects of preschool on student proficiency and some socio-emotional skills. The intention is to understand the effects of preschool on cognitive and non-cognitive aspects. In Brazil, we do not have a lot of studies seeking to understand the influence of early childhood education in human development, especially from the point of view of non-cognitive and cognitive skills. The economic literature widely recognizes the importance of cognitive skills and, increasingly, non-cognitive in determining results in various health dimensions. Thus, this study aims to investigate how the preschool can influence these two groups of skills, which would be two channels through which early childhood education influences the success of individuals. Some questions motivate the development of this work, such as: if the Preschool is a crucial factor for good performance of students in a small city in the richest state of Brazil (Sertaozinho in São Paulo state)? Will students who attended early childhood education are different from students who did not at some personality attributes, such as self-control, locus of control and conscientiousness? We are going to use the “Prova Brasil” database from Ministry of Education for two years (2008 and 2012), which has student´s academic proficiency, and some non-cognitive measurement instruments applied in the schools of Sertãozinho collected in 2008, base in the Social Skills Rating System (SSRS), in the Big Five Inventory (BFI) and the Tel Aviv Locus of Control. With this longitudinal database, we are able to estimate the influence of non cognitive abilities in proficiency considering the school type (public or private) and also the educational trajectory (pre-school frequency).

Keywords: Non-cognitive abilites; pre school education; proficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 J13 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
ISBN: 978-84-945958-6-8
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