Taylor, Gemma and Sala, Giovanni and Kolak, Joanna and Gerhardstein, Peter and Lingwood, Jamie (2024) Does adult-child co-use during digital media use improve children's learning aged 0-6 years? A systematic review with meta-analysis. Educational Research Review. ISSN 1747-938X
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Abstract
Young children spend a significant and increasing amount of time using digital media.
Thus, a clear understanding of how best to support children’s learning from digital media is important. A specific recommendation by some professional bodies is that
parental co-use should be applied to scaffold children’s learning from digital media. The aim of this meta-analysis was to assess the association between adult-child co-use on 0–6-year-old children’s learning from digital media. The analysis was conducted using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA)
guidelines. We identified 17 studies investigating typically developing 0–6-year-old children's learning outcomes from digital media use with an adult for inclusion in this
meta-analysis. We extracted 100 effect sizes (Ntotal = 1,288) from studies published between 1977 and 2022. Our meta-analysis found a small positive association of adultchild co-use on children’s learning from digital media (g = 0.198, 95% CIs: 0.059 – 0.337, p = 0.009); none of our moderator analyses were significant. While the evidence
suggests a positive role of adult-child co-use, support for this conclusion was limited by small sample sizes and a lack of variety in study design. These issues limited the
statistical power of our moderator analyses. The effect is, however, clearly significant and suggests that a real effect exists in the practice of co-use, but future research
systematically exploring the mechanisms by which adult-child co-use supports children’s learning is warranted.
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| Additional Information and Comments: | © 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Human and Digital Sciences > School of Psychology |
| Depositing User: | Jamie Lingwood |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Jun 2024 09:21 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Jun 2024 09:21 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/4295 |
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