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Direct linkFatma Betül Senol; Nezahat Hamiden Karaca – Education 3-13, 2025
This study aimed to determine the motor creativity of preschoolers, to develop a music education programme suitable for the interests and needs of children, and to investigate whether music education is effective in motor creativity. A quasi-experimental design was used to test the effect of music education programme on children's motor…
Descriptors: Music Education, Creativity, Preschool Education, Preschool Children
Sezici, Emel; Akkaya, Deniz Döne – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
The study was conducted to examine the effect the 60-72 months of preschool children's motor skills have on their self-care skills. This is an analytical and sectional type of research. This study was conducted with aged 60-72 months of 126 preschool children between 15 March and 30 May 2019. The data were collected using the Self-Care Skills…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Psychomotor Skills, Daily Living Skills, Measures (Individuals)
Marinšek, Miha; Jurak, Gregor; Kovac, Marjeta – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2020
Educators' self-efficacy influences their practice and thus determines the quality of teaching in early childhood education and care (ECEC). This study analyzed educators' self-efficacy to teach physical education (PE) and the differences between pre-service and in-service early childhood educators. Early childhood educators (N = 381) completed a…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Beliefs, Self Efficacy, Preservice Teachers
Bonneton-Botte, Nathalie; Beucher-Marsal, Claude; Bara, Florence; Muller, Julie; Corf, Laurence Le; Quéméneur, Marielle; Dare, Maud – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2021
The process of teaching and learning handwriting is complex and laborious. A digital learning environment in the form of a tablet app could enhance teachers' knowledge of writer characteristics and their management of classroom diversity. This study aims to identify the needs of cursive writing teachers from a survey of 164 kindergarten teachers…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Teaching Methods, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Classroom Techniques
Download full textKoçak, Duygu; Incekara, Sema – Journal of Theoretical Educational Science, 2020
In this study, it is aimed to determine the opinions of preschool teachers and classroom teachers about school readiness. As in the current situation, since this research is aimed to be a qualitative approach, the research is a case study of qualitative research type. In the study, interviews were conducted with a total of 25 teachers including 15…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Preschool Teachers, Grade 1, Young Children
Hastie, Peter A.; Rudisill, Mary E.; Boyd, Korey; Johnson, Jerraco L. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2019
Purpose: This study followed a strengths-based approach to identify the pathway children follow as they develop from novice to skillful learners during a mastery-motivational physical education setting. Method: Eleven 4-year-old children (nine boys) participated in a motor activity program delivered twice weekly across 26 weeks. The teacher…
Descriptors: Motor Development, Mastery Learning, Physical Education, Novices
Clancy Blair; Rachel D. McKinnon – Grantee Submission, 2016
Academic preparedness, executive function abilities, and positive relationships with teachers have each been shown to be uniquely important for school readiness and success in the early elementary grades. Few studies, however, have examined the joint influence of these readiness variables on early school outcomes. Using data from a prospective…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Mathematics Skills, Mathematics Tests, Children
Zawi, Khairi; Lian, Denise Koh Choon; Abdullah, Rozlina Tan – International Education Studies, 2014
Acquisition of gross motor skill is a natural developmental process for children. This aspect of human development increases with one's chronological age, irrespective of any developmental conditions. The purpose of this study was to assess the level of gross motor skill development among pre- and early school-aged children with motor disability.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Early Childhood Education
Mitchell, Jessica; Skouteris, Helen; McCabe, Marita; Ricciardelli, Lina A.; Milgrom, Jeannette; Baur, Louise A.; Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, Matthew; Dwyer, Genevieve – Early Child Development and Care, 2012
The primary aim of this review was to identify and evaluate the strength of associations of the key parental factors measured in studies examining early childhood physical activity (PA). A systematic review of the literature, using databases PsychINFO, Medline, Academic Search Complete, PSYCHinfo, and CINHAL, published between January 1986 and…
Descriptors: Physical Activity Level, Parent Influence, Correlation, Databases
Goodway, Jacqueline D.; Wall, Sarah; Getchell, Nancy – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2009
With childhood obesity and physical inactivity at an all-time high, parents and physical educators alike must look to the early years to promote competent and confident young movers. Popular opinion believes that children are naturally active and motor skill development progresses as a normal function of getting older. However, if one looks at…
Descriptors: Obesity, Physical Activities, Early Childhood Education, Young Children
Zhang, Xiangkui; Sun, Lei; Gai, Xiaosong – Frontiers of Education in China, 2008
In order to investigate the teachers and parents' perceptions of school readiness, 218 parents and 370 teachers were surveyed. Based on the areas of "physical well-being and motor development", "social and emotional development", "approaches to learning", "language use", "cognition and general…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Kindergarten, Elementary School Teachers, Motor Development
Public Policy Forum, 2009
This report is the latest in a series of reports investigating the link between high quality early childhood education and economic development. Longitudinal research from national experts indicates that high quality early childhood programs are likely to impart significant social, academic, and economic benefits to the children who participate,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Young Children, Kindergarten
Zachopoulou, Evridiki; Makri, Anastasia – Early Child Development and Care, 2005
Movement responses to a stimulus could be either quantitative or qualitative, or could also be the answer to a pre-established problem. This process activates both divergent thinking and critical thinking. Divergent movement ability generates both quantitative and qualitative movement responses to a stimulus. The aim of this study was to examine…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Preschool Children, Elementary School Students, Child Development
