Degree
Master of Science in Economics
Faculty / School
School of Economics and Social Sciences (SESS)
Department
Department of Economics
Date of Submission
2024-11-12
Supervisor
Dr. Amir Jahan Khan, Associate Professor, Department of Economics
Project Type
MSECO Research Project
Access Type
Restricted Access
Keywords
Numeracy, Mathematical Skills, Verbal Skills, Cognitive Achievements, Child Educational Outcomes
Abstract
United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) - 4 is ‘Quality Education’ under which Target-6 is about literacy ‘and’ numeracy. Literacy has mainly been emphasized by the policy makers and researchers, for example, to set certain benchmarks for national education but numeracy has largely been neglected. Also, to measure children’s educational outcomes and cognitive achievements, their standard vocabulary test scores (as PPVT) are used under the assumption that the factors that determine children verbal skills impact other dimensions of cognitive achievements, as numeracy, in the same way. In this paper, a detailed empirical analysis of children verbals and numeracy skills is conducted, separately, using the Young Lives Data which is a longitudinal study of the lives of 3000 + children. India is being selected as a middle-income country for the purpose of this study. Through OLS regression analysis, study findsthat the factors such as contemporaneous and early nutrition status, gender, age at the start of school Grade-1, type of school, outside-the- school study hours and parents’ education that determine children cognitive skills impact their numeracy skills with substantially larger magnitudes than the verbal skills. It also finds higher persistence in the numeracy skills relative to the verbal skills using value-added regression models. Understanding these differences in the relation between children numeracy/verbal skills and their determining factors will help formulating better targeted educational policies and effective interventions and hence the progress towards the achievement of SDG-4 targets.
Pages
xii, 40
Recommended Citation
., A. (2024). Sweeping generalities under trial: Differential impact of the factors of children cognitive achievemnets on their numeracy and verbal skills - evidence from India (Unpublished graduate research project). Institute of Business Administration, Pakistan. Retrieved from https://ir.iba.edu.pk/research-projects-mseco/44
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