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How Profiles of School Readiness Relate to Grade 3 Performance among Low-Income Ethnically- and Linguistically-Diverse Children
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Tavassolie, Tanya; Bleiker, Charles; Manfra, Louis; Hartman, Suzanne C.; Dinehart, Laura H. B.; Winsler, Adam – Applied Developmental Science, 2022
A person-centered approach was used to explore how preschool school readiness profiles predict Grade 3 academic performance among a large (N = 43,044) low-income, ethnically-diverse longitudinal sample of children. Study aims: (a) determine the number and type of preschoolers' school readiness profiles, (b) determine how profile membership relates…
Descriptors: Profiles, School Readiness, Academic Achievement, Grade 3
Forecasting Youth Adjustment at Age 15 from School Readiness Profiles at 54 Months
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Goble, Priscilla; Pianta, Robert C.; Sabol, Terri J. – Applied Developmental Science, 2019
A person-oriented approach examined the extent to which patterns of school readiness across social and cognitive domains in 944 typically-developing 54-month-old children forecast academic achievement, social-emotional development, risk taking, and executive functioning at age 15. Prior work identified six distinct profiles of school readiness at…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Young Children, Predictor Variables, Academic Achievement
Relationships among Informant Based Measures of Social Skills and Student Achievement: A Longitudinal Examination of Differential Effects by Sex
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Konold, Timothy R.; Jamison, Kristen R.; Stanton-Chapman, Tina L.; Rimm-Kaufman, Sara E. – Applied Developmental Science, 2010
Children's social skills are an important class of learned behaviors that facilitate success in the classroom; the primary method used in the assessment of social skills involves having parents or teachers complete standardized checklists using judgments of frequency or intensity. Children's (N = 1,102) social skills were modeled as time-varying…
Descriptors: Mothers, Interpersonal Competence, Gender Differences, Academic Achievement
A Variable- and Person-Oriented Investigation of Preschool Competencies and Head Start Children's Transition to Kindergarten and First Grade
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McWayne, Christine M.; Green, Linnie E.; Fantuzzo, John W. – Applied Developmental Science, 2009
The present longitudinal study employed two distinctive approaches (variable-oriented and person-oriented) to examine low-income children's academic and social functioning across the important transition from pre-k to first grade. Participants included 152 former urban Head Start children. Variable-oriented and person-oriented approaches were…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Disadvantaged Youth, Kindergarten, Grade 1