Une approche longitudinale-expérimentale sur l’impact des mesures d’éducation au préscolaire sur le rendement scolaire des enfants défavorisés de Montréal

ABSTRACT A Longitudinal Experimental Approach on the Impact of Pre-School-LevelEducational Measures on the Achievement of Socially DisadvantagedMontreal Students Linda Pagani, Youmna Ghosn, Julie Jalbert, Milenka Munoz and Maude ChamberlandUniversite de Montreal, Quebec, CanadaIn this article, we present some results of a longitudinal research program whichstarted at the pre-school level. In the first section, we discuss the longitudinal part ofa program inspired by Head Start and implanted at the pre-school level for childrenliving in urban areas. We examine its influence on the linguistic competence of chil-dren belonging to ethnic minorities. At the end of pre-school, these children show agreater improvement in their linguistic competence than their French-speakingpeers. Despite the inter-group difference at the end of kindergarten in favour of volume XXXIII:2, automne 2005 www.acelf.ca 225Une approche longitudinale-experimentale sur l’impact des mesures d’education au prescolaire sur le rendement scolaire des enfants defavorises de Montreal