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Bustamante, Andres S.; Dearing, Eric; Zachrisson, Henrik Daae; Vandell, Deborah Lowe – Child Development, 2022
Experimental research demonstrates sustained high-quality early care and education (ECE) can mitigate the consequences of poverty into adulthood. However, the long-term effects of community-based ECE are less known. Using the 1991 NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (n = 994; 49.7% female; 73.6% White, 10.6% African American,…
Descriptors: Child Care, Educational Quality, Early Childhood Education, Poverty
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Masnick, Amy M.; Morris, Bradley J. – Child Development, 2008
A crucial skill in scientific and everyday reasoning is the ability to interpret data. The present study examined how data features influence data interpretation. In Experiment 1, one hundred and thirty-three 9-year-olds, 12-year-olds, and college students (mean age = 20 years) were shown a series of data sets that varied in the number of…
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Data Analysis, Children, Preadolescents
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Feng, Gary; Miller, Kevin; Shu, Hua; Zhang, Houcan – Child Development, 2009
As children become proficient readers, there are substantial changes in the eye movements that subserve reading. Some of these changes reflect universal developmental factors while others may be specific to a particular writing system. This study attempts to disentangle effects of universal and script-dependent factors by comparing the development…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Eye Movements, Written Language, Reading Processes