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Dr Elsje van Bergen@drelsje.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🧮 Do home maths activities help children learn? Only partly. What looks like an “environmental effect” may partly reflect shared family characteristics. 🔗 osf.io/9hu3g 👉 Accounting for familial confounding matters in education research — and is why we developed the Familial Control Method.

📢 Children's word #reading skills are linked to the number of books at home and mother-child reading activities—even after accounting for parental reading skills as a proxy for genetic influences. 🧬📚 🔗 Read more: doi.org/10.1111/jcpp... 🧵👇1/6

Books at home and reading to children is seen as causally related to childrens literacy development. Such studies often dont account genetics. In our study in JCPP, we do, and what happens then? 😊 with @drelsje.bsky.social @grandegerman.bsky.social acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

<em>Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry</em> | ACAMH Pediatric Journal | Wiley Online Library

Background Numerous studies have investigated the associations between the home literacy environment (HLE) and children's word reading skills. However, these associations may partly reflect shared g...

acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

🚨🚨Our work on the intergenerational impact of mothers and fathers on children’s word reading is finally out in an open access article in JCPP. Thanks to @drelsje.bsky.social @dramland.bsky.social @melbylervag.bsky.social and Arne Lervåg for this great collaboration! doi.org/10.1111/jcpp...

<em>Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry</em> | ACAMH Pediatric Journal | Wiley Online Library

Background Numerous studies have investigated the associations between the home literacy environment (HLE) and children's word reading skills. However, these associations may partly reflect shared g...

doi.org