Building a Bridge Between Measurement and Latine Families: The Case of the Home Numeracy Environment

• In Event: Sheraton Roundtable Session Fifteen
  In Roundtable Session: Critical Theory and Culturally Affirming Research in Latinx/e Scholarship (Table 5)

Abstract

The Home Numeracy Environment (HNE) is an essential factor that helps explain children’s numeracy skills. Research in this field has been developed mostly on English-speaking families although more recent studies have analyzed this construct for Latine families. The existing HNE scales have not taken into consideration cultural differences that contextualize the home environment and those measures might provide biased results from a deficit perspective.
This study used a sequential mixed methods design to first understand the HNE of Latine families through 15 semi-structured interviews and then develop a culturally contextualized HNE scale. The factor structure of the newly developed scale was analyzed. This study updates and increases the cultural relevance of an important measure, as it is the HNE.

Authors

• Jimena Cosso, Pennsylvania State University
  Presenting Author

• David J. Purpura, Purdue University
  Non-Presenting Author