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Mehmet Basaran; Sermin Metin; Ömer Faruk Vural – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
The growing significance of coding in 21st-century early childhood education extends beyond technical proficiency, encompassing cognitive development, problem-solving, and creativity. Coding is being integrated globally into educational curricula to prepare students for the digital era. This research examines coding's potential impact on cognitive…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Coding, 21st Century Skills, Social Emotional Learning
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Wang, Lin; Shi, Donglin; Geng, Fengji; Hao, Xiaoxin; Chanjuan, Fu; Li, Yan – Journal of Educational Research, 2022
Coding learning involves cognitive control ability that enables children to coordinate behaviors according to internally maintained goals. However, such ability is still developing during early childhood and cannot reach maturity at least until late adolescence. This study aimed to test whether integrating cognitive control strategies into online…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Development, Self Control
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Booth, Amy E.; Alvarez, Aubry – Language Learning and Development, 2015
This work explores whether the facilitative effect of causal information on preschoolers' word and descriptive fact learning persists in school-age children. Twenty-three 5-year-olds just beginning school and 23 6- to 7-year-olds who had accumulated over a year of schooling were taught novel words along with descriptions of causally rich,…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Preschool Children, Kindergarten, Grade 1
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Wang, Zhenlin; Wong, Richard Kwok Shing; Wong, Paul Yau Ho; Ho, Fuk Chuen; Cheng, Doris Pui Wah – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
The study seeks to understand the relation between preschool children's mode of participation and negotiation strategies during play and their theory of mind (ToM) development in the Hong Kong context. Forty-two 5-year-old children were recruited. Their emotional and cognitive ToMs were assessed along with expressive language ability. Children's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Play, Theory of Mind
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Beers, Courtney – Action in Teacher Education, 2018
The purpose of this qualitative study was to propose a framework for the types of practices and ideologies that the most successful clinical-based, early childhood teacher education programs use to prepare their preservice teachers for the profession. Grounded theory methods guided the collection and analysis of data. Participants included…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Teacher Education Programs, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers
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Poolman, B. G.; Leseman, P. P. M.; Doornenbal, J. M.; Minnaert, A. E. M. G. – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
Rural children are a largely understudied population in language and literacy research, despite the fact that these children often enter school with delays in their language development. Since most rural areas suffered from so-called selective rural outmigration, many parents in rural areas are lower or middle educated. The home literacy climate,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Primary Education
Scott-Little, Catherine; Kagan, Sharon Lynn; Frelow, Victoria Stebbins – SERVE Center for Continuous Improvement at UNCG, 2005
The purpose of this descriptive study is to examine the content of early learning standards developed by state-level organizations in order to address the following research questions: (1) To what extent have various dimensions of development and learning (i.e., the dimensions of physical and motor, social and emotional, approaches toward…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, State Standards, Child Development, Cognitive Development