Trial reportChild development2021
Effects of Montessori Education on the Academic, Cognitive, and Social Development of Disadvantaged Preschoolers: A Randomized Controlled Study in the French Public-School System.
Trial report in Child development, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 42 citations in OpenAlex.
- Early Montessori education shows delayed benefits for mathematical problem-solving in a 5-year longitudinal randomized controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- A national randomized controlled trial of the impact of public Montessori preschool at the end of kindergarten.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Trial
- When little brain goes to school: Impact of pedagogy on cerebellar peduncles' development.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2026Article
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- Active inference goes to school: the importance of active learning in the age of large language models.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Centre-based early education interventions for improving school readiness: A systematic review.Campbell systematic reviews · 2023Review
- LearningBrain sciences · 2023Article
- The Behavioral Effects of Montessori Pedagogy on Children's Psychological Development and School Learning.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
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Abstract
Previous research on Montessori preschool education is inconsistent and prone to analytic flexibility. In this preregistered study, disadvantaged preschoolers in a French public school were randomly assigned to either conventional or Montessori classrooms, with the latter being adapted to French public education. Adaptations included fewer materials, shorter work periods, and relatively limited Montessori teacher training. Cross-sectional analyses in kindergarten (N = 176; M
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