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Ramscar, Michael; Dye, Melody; Gustafson, Jessica W.; Klein, Joseph – Child Development, 2013
Cognitive control, the ability to align our actions with goals or context, is largely absent in children under four. How then are preschoolers able to tailor their behavior to best match the situation? Learning may provide an alternative route to context-sensitive responding. This study investigated this hypothesis in the Dimensional Change Card…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Cognitive Processes, Conflict, Cognitive Ability
Kirk, Stacie M.; Kirk, Erik P. – Journal of School Health, 2016
Background: The effects of increases in physical activity (PA) on early literacy skills in preschool children are not known. Methods: Fifty-four African-American preschool children from a low socioeconomic urban Head Start participated over 8 months. A 2-group, quasi-experimental design was used with one preschool site participating in the PA…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Emergent Literacy, Preschool Children, African Americans
Aslan, Durmus; Aktas Arnas, Yasare – Educational Studies, 2015
This study was conducted to investigate the immediate impacts of preschool attendance on Turkish children's mathematics achievement. The participants were 200 children who attended or did not attend preschool. The number and operation task and the geometric shapes sorting task were used as the data collection tools. The children who attended…
Descriptors: Preschool Evaluation, Attendance, Mathematics Achievement, Investigations
Sheridan, Susan M.; Knoche, Lisa L.; Edwards, Carolyn P.; Kupzyk, Kevin A.; Clarke, Brandy L.; Moorman Kim, Elizabeth – Early Education and Development, 2014
Research Findings: This study reports the results of a randomized trial of a parent engagement intervention (the Getting Ready intervention) on directly observed learning-related social behaviors of children from low-income families in the context of parent-child interactions. The study explored the moderating effect of parental depression on…
Descriptors: Role, Depression (Psychology), Parent Child Relationship, Control Groups
Bonawitz, Elizabeth; Fischer, Adina; Schulz, Laura – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2012
Previous research suggests that 3-year-olds fail to learn from statistical data when their prior beliefs conflict with evidence. Are children's beliefs entrenched in their folk theories, or can preschoolers rationally update their beliefs? Motivated by a Bayesian account, we conducted a training study to investigate this question. Children (45…
Descriptors: Evidence, Preschool Children, Statistical Data, Learning
Kambanaros, Maria; Grohmann, Kleanthes K.; Michaelides, Michalis; Theodorou, Elena – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2013
Against the background of the increasing number of multilingual children with atypical language development around the world, this study reports research results on grammatical word class processing involving children with specific language impairment (SLI). The study investigates lexical retrieval of verbs (through picture-naming actions) and…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Impairments, Language Acquisition, Multilingualism
Levy, Sharona T. – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2013
The present study explored young 5-6-year old children's design-based learning of science through building working physical systems and examined their evolving conceptions of water flow. Fifteen children in an experimental group individually built water-pipe systems during four sessions that included end-of-session interviews. In addition,…
Descriptors: Young Children, Physics, Water, Hands on Science
Stefan, Catrinel A.; Miclea, Mircea – Psychology in the Schools, 2013
This study was designed to assess the effectiveness of a multifocused
(child-, teacher- and parent-focused) prevention program for Romanian preschoolers, targeting social--emotional competence development, as well as reduction of behavior problems. Fourteen classrooms were randomly assigned to the intervention and control conditions. Subsequent…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Preschool Children, Prevention, Social Development
de Bree, Elise; Kerkhoff, Annemarie – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2010
This study assesses morpho-phonological alternation in plural formation by 5-year-old Dutch children with a familial risk of dyslexia, children with specific language impairment (SLI), and typically developing children. The morpho-phonological process investigated is the voicing alternation in Dutch singular-plural pairs such as bed [t]…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Dyslexia, Indo European Languages, Task Analysis
Jones, Mark; Onslow, Mark; Packman, Ann; O'Brian, Sue; Hearne, Anna; Williams, Shelley; Ormond, Tika; Schwarz, Ilsa – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2008
Background: In the Lidcombe Program of Early Stuttering Intervention, parents present verbal contingencies for stutter-free and stuttered speech in everyday situations. A previous randomized controlled trial of the programme with preschool-age children from 2005, conducted in two public speech clinics in New Zealand, showed that the odds of…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Early Intervention, Stuttering, Preschool Children
Wilkinson, Krista – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2007
One phenomenon of language development is a dramatic increase in vocabulary size, driven by rapid word learning. For individuals with intellectual disabilities, the size of the lexicon often lags behind what would be expected both for CA and MA. I examined how well individuals with severely limited receptive vocabulary associated with intellectual…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Language Acquisition, Mental Retardation, Vocabulary Development
Dodd, Barbara J.; So, Lydia K. H.; Lam, Kobe K. C. – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2008
Children first exposed to English as a second language when they start school are at risk for poor academic outcome. They perform less well than their monolingual peers, matched for socio-economic background, at the end of primary school on measures of language and literacy, despite immersion in English at school. Previous research suggests,…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Phonemes, Phonological Awareness, Monolingualism
Amsterlaw, Jennifer; Wellman, Henry M. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2006
Microgenetic methods were used to document young children's (N = 36; M age = 3;5) acquisition of false belief (FB) understanding and investigate developmental mechanisms. A control group received no experience with FB; 2 other groups received microgenetic sessions designed to promote FB understanding. Over consecutive weeks, microgenetic groups…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Control Groups, Cognitive Development, Beliefs