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Kindergarten redshirting may exacerbate early achievement gaps between high-socioeconomic status (SES) or White children and their peers. Thus, identifying redshirting predictors is important for addressing early childhood inequality. Extending from literature identifying child-level variables, this study uses ECLS-K 2011 and multilevel logistic regression to investigate early learning experiences and school-level characteristics as redshirting predictors. The results showed that children attending full-day kindergarten were less likely to redshirt than those attending half-day kindergarten and public school children were less likely to redshirt than private school children. Surprisingly, SES was a non-significant predictor. However, consistent with previous literature, White and male children were more likely to redshirt than non-White and female children.
Keywords: kindergarten transition, early childhood education, redshirting