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Yiyi Chen; Zihe Ding – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Digitalization can potentially benefit the creative and cognitive development of children. This study aims to analyze this impact on a sample of preschool children. A total of 80 preschoolers were divided into four groups based on their age and program variables: there were two groups (control and training) of children aged 3 to 4 years and two…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Young Children, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Güler, Dursun; Özsoy, Olcay – Online Submission, 2018
This paper examines preschool and primary school educational games from teachers' perspective. Research group was composed by Amasya centre and related preschools and primary schools working teachers aged between 20 and 40, official and on payment (temporary). In total, 214 preschool and primary school teachers have been interviewed. The handouts…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Educational Games, Teacher Attitudes
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Ansari, Arya; Pianta, Robert – Journal of Educational Research, 2019
Data from 1,407 preschoolers were used to examine the implications of classroom age composition for the early learning and development of 4-year-olds in classrooms with 3- and 5-year-olds also in attendance. Results suggest that a greater number of younger classmates did not detract from 4-year-olds' language development, literacy performance, or…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Age Differences, Learning Processes, Child Development
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Hao, Tao; Wang, Zhe; Ardasheva, Yuliya – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2021
This meta-analysis reviewed research between 2012 and 2018 focused on technology-assisted second language (L2) vocabulary learning for English as a foreign language (EFL) learner. A total of 45 studies of 2,374 preschool-to-college EFL students contributed effect sizes to this meta-analysis. Compared with traditional instructional methods, the…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Jung, Eunjoo; Brown, Elizabeth T.; Karp, Karen S. – Learning Environments Research, 2014
The authors investigated the degree to which school-level teacher characteristics and resources are related to the mathematics learning of kindergarten children using a sample drawn from a large US database. Kindergarten-level teacher characteristics were operationalised as collective teacher efficacy, teacher experience and teacher preparation;…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Kindergarten, Role, Mathematics Education
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Ugaste, Aino; Tuul, Maire; Niglas, Katrin; Neudorf, Evelyn – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
As in many Western countries, children's learning in the curriculum of Estonian Early Childhood Education is seen as a lifelong process, wherein the teacher is primarily a guide to children's active learning. Thus, a child-centred approach to learning is valued in the national curriculum, but our interest was whether this approach is fixed in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Preschool Children
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Denham, Susanne A.; Warren-Khot, Heather K.; Bassett, Hideko Hamada; Wyatt, Todd; Perna, Alyssa – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2012
The importance of early self-regulatory skill has seen increased focus in the applied research literature given the implications of these skills for early school success. A three-factor latent structure of self-regulation consisting of compliance, cool executive control, and hot executive control was tested against alternative models and retained…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Models, Disadvantaged Youth, Factor Structure
Geren, Joy Celeste – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Typically language development in children closely coincides with development in many other areas. This makes it difficult to determine whether observed correlations are coincidental or causal in nature. The three studies presented here explore these relationships by looking at two populations of learners who are delayed in exposure to English,…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Syntax, Deafness, Foreign Countries
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Sobel, David M.; Li, Jin; Corriveau, Kathleen H. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2007
Two studies examined how 3-6-year-olds understand the process of learning. In study 1 examined how children spontaneously talk about learning via a CHILDES language analysis. Talk about the learning process increased between the ages of 3-5. Talk specifically about learning in terms of desire decreased during this period. This suggests the…
Descriptors: Intention, Concept Formation, Young Children, Learning Processes
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Payler, Jane – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2007
This paper draws on an ESRC-funded study (Payler, 2005) of the sociocultural influences on learning processes of 10 four-year-old children in their second year of the Foundation Stage in England (DfEE, 2000). The children, very close in age, were in one of two early years settings: a pre-school playgroup with a largely invisible pedagogy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Social Influences, Cultural Influences
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Li, Jin – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2004
Despite much research on Chinese children's learning achievement, little research exists on their early development of beliefs about learning. This study examined the perceptions of purposes for and affective and value expression toward learning among 129 Chinese preschoolers aged 3-6 years. To tap culturally valid perspectives, free narratives…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Values, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries