Hybrid parental training to foster play-based early childhood development: experimental evidence from Mexico

Play during early childhood is key to stimulating childrens physical, social, emotional and cognitive development; it promotes their imagination and creativity, improves their problem-solving skills and enhances their learning readiness by providing the foundations to build skills later in their lives. Parental engagement in play-based learning at home is one of the behaviors most consistently associated with positive child development. However, it is concerning that levels of parental engagement in play activities have been found to be lower in low-resourced settings. Additionally, research on play-based learning is largely limited to high-income countries and little is known about the use of hybrid interventions that promote play-based learning at home. This study uses an experimental design to estimate the effects of a hybrid large-scale parental program to promote play-based learning in the state of Morelos, Mexico. We found a positive impact on parental investment, as caregivers of the treatment group had a FCI 0.13 SD higher than the control group. The treatment group performed the following activities more often than the control group: reading books /looking at pictures (0.12 SD), singing songs (0.11 SD), and playing with toys (0.17 SD), which incentivize learning, emotional and cognitive skills development in children. The study also found a significant effect of 0.19 SD on the CDC index for those caregivers who invested less than the median FCI at the baseline. Our findings support the importance of parental training for increased quality and time of caregiver investments in play activities, which lead to improved child outcomes, especially among children in households with the lowest levels of caregiver investment at baseline.

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Main Author: Inter-American Development Bank
Other Authors: Cecilia Berlanga
Language:English
Published: Inter-American Development Bank
Subjects:Children, Game-Based Learning, Learning, Population Aging, Child Development, Educational Service, Knowledge, Parental Investment, Early Childhood Development, C93 - Field Experiments, I20 - Education and Research Institutions: General, I24 - Education and Inequality, Play-based learning;early childhood development;parental engagement;Hybrid Education;Low- and middle-income countries;COVID-19;randomized controlled trial,
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0004879
https://publications.iadb.org/en/hybrid-parental-training-foster-play-based-early-childhood-development-experimental-evidence-mexico
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spelling dig-bid-node-336292023-05-10T14:48:02ZHybrid parental training to foster play-based early childhood development: experimental evidence from Mexico 2023-05-03T00:05:00+0000 http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0004879 https://publications.iadb.org/en/hybrid-parental-training-foster-play-based-early-childhood-development-experimental-evidence-mexico Inter-American Development Bank Children Game-Based Learning Learning Population Aging Child Development Educational Service Knowledge Parental Investment Early Childhood Development C93 - Field Experiments I20 - Education and Research Institutions: General I24 - Education and Inequality Play-based learning;early childhood development;parental engagement;Hybrid Education;Low- and middle-income countries;COVID-19;randomized controlled trial Play during early childhood is key to stimulating childrens physical, social, emotional and cognitive development; it promotes their imagination and creativity, improves their problem-solving skills and enhances their learning readiness by providing the foundations to build skills later in their lives. Parental engagement in play-based learning at home is one of the behaviors most consistently associated with positive child development. However, it is concerning that levels of parental engagement in play activities have been found to be lower in low-resourced settings. Additionally, research on play-based learning is largely limited to high-income countries and little is known about the use of hybrid interventions that promote play-based learning at home. This study uses an experimental design to estimate the effects of a hybrid large-scale parental program to promote play-based learning in the state of Morelos, Mexico. We found a positive impact on parental investment, as caregivers of the treatment group had a FCI 0.13 SD higher than the control group. The treatment group performed the following activities more often than the control group: reading books /looking at pictures (0.12 SD), singing songs (0.11 SD), and playing with toys (0.17 SD), which incentivize learning, emotional and cognitive skills development in children. The study also found a significant effect of 0.19 SD on the CDC index for those caregivers who invested less than the median FCI at the baseline. Our findings support the importance of parental training for increased quality and time of caregiver investments in play activities, which lead to improved child outcomes, especially among children in households with the lowest levels of caregiver investment at baseline. Inter-American Development Bank Cecilia Berlanga Emma Näslund-Hadley Enrique Fernández García Juan Manuel Hernández Agramonte IDB Publications Mexico en
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topic Children
Game-Based Learning
Learning
Population Aging
Child Development
Educational Service
Knowledge
Parental Investment
Early Childhood Development
C93 - Field Experiments
I20 - Education and Research Institutions: General
I24 - Education and Inequality
Play-based learning;early childhood development;parental engagement;Hybrid Education;Low- and middle-income countries;COVID-19;randomized controlled trial
Children
Game-Based Learning
Learning
Population Aging
Child Development
Educational Service
Knowledge
Parental Investment
Early Childhood Development
C93 - Field Experiments
I20 - Education and Research Institutions: General
I24 - Education and Inequality
Play-based learning;early childhood development;parental engagement;Hybrid Education;Low- and middle-income countries;COVID-19;randomized controlled trial
spellingShingle Children
Game-Based Learning
Learning
Population Aging
Child Development
Educational Service
Knowledge
Parental Investment
Early Childhood Development
C93 - Field Experiments
I20 - Education and Research Institutions: General
I24 - Education and Inequality
Play-based learning;early childhood development;parental engagement;Hybrid Education;Low- and middle-income countries;COVID-19;randomized controlled trial
Children
Game-Based Learning
Learning
Population Aging
Child Development
Educational Service
Knowledge
Parental Investment
Early Childhood Development
C93 - Field Experiments
I20 - Education and Research Institutions: General
I24 - Education and Inequality
Play-based learning;early childhood development;parental engagement;Hybrid Education;Low- and middle-income countries;COVID-19;randomized controlled trial
Inter-American Development Bank
Hybrid parental training to foster play-based early childhood development: experimental evidence from Mexico
description Play during early childhood is key to stimulating childrens physical, social, emotional and cognitive development; it promotes their imagination and creativity, improves their problem-solving skills and enhances their learning readiness by providing the foundations to build skills later in their lives. Parental engagement in play-based learning at home is one of the behaviors most consistently associated with positive child development. However, it is concerning that levels of parental engagement in play activities have been found to be lower in low-resourced settings. Additionally, research on play-based learning is largely limited to high-income countries and little is known about the use of hybrid interventions that promote play-based learning at home. This study uses an experimental design to estimate the effects of a hybrid large-scale parental program to promote play-based learning in the state of Morelos, Mexico. We found a positive impact on parental investment, as caregivers of the treatment group had a FCI 0.13 SD higher than the control group. The treatment group performed the following activities more often than the control group: reading books /looking at pictures (0.12 SD), singing songs (0.11 SD), and playing with toys (0.17 SD), which incentivize learning, emotional and cognitive skills development in children. The study also found a significant effect of 0.19 SD on the CDC index for those caregivers who invested less than the median FCI at the baseline. Our findings support the importance of parental training for increased quality and time of caregiver investments in play activities, which lead to improved child outcomes, especially among children in households with the lowest levels of caregiver investment at baseline.
author2 Cecilia Berlanga
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Inter-American Development Bank
topic_facet Children
Game-Based Learning
Learning
Population Aging
Child Development
Educational Service
Knowledge
Parental Investment
Early Childhood Development
C93 - Field Experiments
I20 - Education and Research Institutions: General
I24 - Education and Inequality
Play-based learning;early childhood development;parental engagement;Hybrid Education;Low- and middle-income countries;COVID-19;randomized controlled trial
author Inter-American Development Bank
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title Hybrid parental training to foster play-based early childhood development: experimental evidence from Mexico
title_short Hybrid parental training to foster play-based early childhood development: experimental evidence from Mexico
title_full Hybrid parental training to foster play-based early childhood development: experimental evidence from Mexico
title_fullStr Hybrid parental training to foster play-based early childhood development: experimental evidence from Mexico
title_full_unstemmed Hybrid parental training to foster play-based early childhood development: experimental evidence from Mexico
title_sort hybrid parental training to foster play-based early childhood development: experimental evidence from mexico
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