Engaging Young Children by OECD

Author:OECD
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Education
ISBN: 9789264085145
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2018-03-26T16:00:00+00:00

Years of work experience do not predict quality of staff-child interactions

Evidence for the links between staff work experience and process quality has been largely inconsistent for centres for children 3 to 6 years old. Staff with more work experience, when compared to staff with less work experience, have demonstrated higher-quality staff-child interactions in Germany and the US (LoCasale-Crouch et al., 2007[170]; Kuger, Pflieger and Rossbach, 2005[171]; Kuger et al., 2015[120]); but also lower quality staff-child interactions in the United States (Connor et al., 2005[61]; Wilcox-Herzog, 2004[172]); or no relationship at all between work experience and staff-child interactions in China and the US (Hu et al., 2016a[104]; Justice et al., 2008[124]; Philips, Gormley and Lowenstein, 2009[148]; Pianta et al., 2005[31]). Cross-country comparison studies have shown similar patterns of mixed findings across countries (Cryer et al., 1999[106]; Slot, Lerkkanen and Leseman, 2015[99]).

These mixed results were confirmed by the meta-analysis conducted for this report (see Figure 3.9, (von Suchodoletz et al., 2017[17])). Specifically, more work experience was not associated with the overall staff-child interactions index (Panel A), but was associated with the combined score of staff emotional, instructional and organisation interactions with the children (Panel B). Because the evidence summarised in this meta-analysis differed in size and direction, within and across countries, there is a possibility that the association between years of experience and staff-child interactions reflect both within-country variation and differences according to countries. However, these results should be considered with caution, given the small number of studies included in the meta-analyses.

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