Taylor, Gemma;
Sala, Giovanni;
Kolak, Joanna;
Gerhardstein, Peter;
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
, 44
, Article 100614. 10.1016/j.edurev.2024.100614.
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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 = 1288) from studies published between 1977 and 2022. Our meta-analysis found a small positive association of adult-child 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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Does adult-child co-use during digital media use improve children's learning aged 0–6 years? A systematic review with meta-analysis |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.edurev.2024.100614 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.edurev.2024.100614 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 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/). |
| Keywords: | Meta-analysis; Children; Adult-child co-use; Digital media; Learning |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Psychology and Human Development |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10199543 |
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