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Download full textPi-Hun Yang; Chung-Yuan Hsu; Gwo-Jen Hwang; Gwo-Haur Hwang; Min-Ai Yang – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2024
The complexity of gear concepts, often misunderstood by young children, highlights the need for educational frameworks beyond simple play. To examine the effects of using the prediction, observation, and explanation (POE) model in building block activities, a true experimental design was implemented. A total of 49 preschoolers were randomly…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Play, Science Education
Direct linkSamantha Bergmann; Tiffany Kodak – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2024
Parity is one source of automatic reinforcement that increases the probability of verbal behavior that conforms to models provided by the verbal community. Parity as a conditioned reinforcer could explain the acquisition of grammar in the absence of direct, explicit reinforcement. This possibility has been explored in previous research on…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Verbal Development, Responses
Joana Cadima; Tiago Ferreira; Carolina Guedes; Diana Alves; Catarina Grande; Teresa Leal; Filipe Piedade; Ana Lemos; Andri Agathokleous; Vicky Charalambous; Charalambos Vrasidas; Demos Michael; Manuela Ciucurel; Georgeta Chirlesan; Bogdan Marinescu; Delia Duminica; Anastasia Vatou; Maria Tsitiridou-Evangelou; Evridiki Zachopoulou; Vasilis Grammatikopoulos – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
Professional Development (PD) can be a powerful lever for improving the quality of teacher-child interactions in early childhood education and care (ECEC) and teachers' feelings of support and competence. However, there is a dearth of studies examining different formats of PD and their links with workplace features. The present study aims to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers
Mertala, Pekka – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
To be able to support young children in learning to learn--an ability that requires adapting often-unprecedented changes in society--teachers need to be aware of the ways in which children understand learning. In this qualitative study, 177 micro-interviews conducted with 41 Finnish children were analysed using an abductive method to understand…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Student Attitudes, Psychomotor Skills, Art Activities
Omidvar, Nazanin; Wright, Tarah; Beazley, Karen; Seguin, Daniel – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2019
Early childhood environmental education focusses on expanding children's bio-affinity, developing their environmental attitudes and encouraging them to behave in a more environmentally friendly manner. One example of the educational method that is based on high-quality practices of both early childhood education and environmental education is the…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Reggio Emilia Approach, Outdoor Education, Early Childhood Education
Saçkes, Mesut; Smith, Mandy McCormick; Trundle, Kathy Cabe – International Journal of Science Education, 2016
The purpose of this cross-cultural study was to describe and compare US and Turkish children's observational knowledge of the day and night cycle and to identify similarities predicted by framework theory. Fifty-six (27 US and 29 Turkish) young children (ages 48-60 months) participated in the study. Semi-structured interviews were individually…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Astronomy, Observational Learning
Gettinger, Maribeth; Stoiber, Karen C. – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2016
This study examined the effects of coaching with versus without demonstrations of evidence-based book-reading practices on teachers' use of strategies during independent book-reading periods. A total of 22 Head Start teachers were randomly assigned to one of two cohorts. One cohort (n = 12) participated in biweekly coaching sessions that included…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Demonstrations (Educational), Evidence Based Practice, Reading Strategies
Gerson, Sarah A.; Woodward, Amanda L. – Cognition, 2012
Understanding the intentional relations in others' actions is critical to human social life. Origins of this knowledge exist in the first year and are a function of both acting as an intentional agent and observing movement cues in actions. We explore a new mechanism we believe plays an important role in infants' understanding of new actions:…
Descriptors: Social Life, Intention, Socialization, Infants
Ledford, Jennifer R.; Wolery, Mark – Exceptional Children, 2015
Many studies have shown that small-group direct instruction is effective and efficient for teaching students with and without disabilities, although relatively few studies have been conducted with heterogeneous groups of preschool participants. In addition, previous studies have primarily assessed whether observational learning occurred for…
Descriptors: Small Group Instruction, Direct Instruction, Teaching Methods, Disabilities
Ramani, Geetha B. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2012
Empirical and theoretical literature on cooperative problem solving in preschool children suggests that integrating features of play into structured, experimental settings should increase the benefits of joint peer interactions and task performance. Four- and five-year-old peer dyads completed a playful, flexible, and child-driven building task or…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Play, Preschool Children, Observational Learning
Ledford, Jennifer R.; Wolery, Mark – Exceptional Children, 2013
The authors describe an intervention for 3 preschoolers with disabilities who had low peer-related social competence. The intervention taught academic skills tailored to the need of each target student in small groups (triads) with two typically developing peers, using a progressive time delay procedure. Prior to instruction and separate from the…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Disabilities, Interpersonal Competence, Peer Groups
Gardiner, Amy K.; Greif, Marissa L.; Bjorklund, David F. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2011
Object use is a ubiquitous characteristic of the human species, and learning how objects function is a fundamental part of development. In this article the authors examine the role that intentionality plays in children's understanding of causal relationships during observational learning of object use. Children observed demonstrations in which…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Child Development, Manipulative Materials, Observational Learning
Taylor, Bridget A.; DeQuinzio, Jaime A.; Stine, Jaime – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2012
We evaluated the effects of monitoring responses on the acquisition of sight words with 3 children with autism. In the training condition, we taught participants a vocal imitation and matching response related to a peer's reading response. In another condition, participants were exposed only to a peer's reading responses. Participants read the…
Descriptors: Autism, Sight Vocabulary, Observational Learning, Reader Response
Horner, Sherri L.; Bhattacharyya, Srilata; O'Connor, Evelyn A. – Childhood Education, 2008
Anyone who has observed or played with young children probably has noticed how they imitate what they see--their friends, siblings, parents, and teachers; television, movie, and book characters; and sometimes even their family pets. Frequently, this imitation can help children learn appropriate behaviors, attitudes, and thinking patterns.…
Descriptors: Imitation, Young Children, Epistemology, Preschool Education
Singer-Dudek, Jessica; Greer, R. Douglas; Schmelzkopf, Jeannine – Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention, 2008
This study sought to further investigate the effects of an observational intervention for two participants on the reinforcing property of pieces of string. Pre-observational intervention data showed that the neutral stimuli (strings) did not function to reinforce two participants' responding to a performance task or learning three new skills that…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Intervention, Observational Learning, Reinforcement
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