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Catrinel A. ?tefan; Delia Cristescu; Ingrid Danila – Early Education and Development, 2024
The Social-Emotional Prevention Program (SEP) is a multi-focused intervention combining universal and indicated intervention strategies delivered face-to-face and through the use of technology. The study's objectives were to assess comparatively SEP effectiveness as a function of preschoolers' baseline risk of externalizing problems and to…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Prevention, Preschool Children
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Pons, Francisco; Giménez-Dasí, Marta; Daniel, Marie-France; Auriac-Slusarczyk, Emmanuèle; Businaro, Nicoletta; Viana, Karine – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2019
Children's emotion understanding has emerged as one of the best predictors of their psychological well-being, pro-social competences and school achievement. The main goal of this study was to evaluate for the first time the impact of an easy-to-use and not time-consuming classroom dialogue-based intervention (a) on preschool children's…
Descriptors: Intervention, Classroom Techniques, Dialogs (Language), Emotional Development
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Ansari, Arya; Pianta, Robert C.; Whittaker, Jessica V.; Vitiello, Virginia E.; Ruzek, Erik A. – Developmental Psychology, 2020
The present investigation examined the benefits of pre-K through the end of kindergarten for children from low-income homes who lived in a large and diverse county (n = 2,581) as well as factors associated with a reduction in benefits during the kindergarten year. Results revealed that pre-K graduates outperformed nonattenders in the areas of…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Program Effectiveness, Low Income Students, Kindergarten
Ansari, Arya; Pianta, Robert C.; Whittaker, Jessica V.; Vitiello, Virginia E.; Ruzek, Erik A. – Grantee Submission, 2020
The present investigation examined the benefits of pre-K through the end of kindergarten for children from low-income homes who lived in a large and diverse county (n = 2,581) as well as factors associated with a reduction in benefits during the kindergarten year. Results revealed that pre-K graduates outperformed non-attenders in the areas of…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Program Effectiveness, Low Income Students, Kindergarten
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Al-Omari, Aieman A.; Ihmeideh, Fathi M.; Al-Dababneh, Khouloud A. – Early Education and Development, 2011
Research Findings: Forty-five child caregivers and 120 parents participated in this study to examine perceptions of childcare programs in Jordan. The researchers developed a questionnaire that consisted of 6 dimensions: health, education, parent-caregiver relationship, facilities, building/landscape, and playground. Moreover, interviews with 10…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Care, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Evaluation
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Bender, Stacy L.; Fedor, Megan C.; Carlson, John S. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2011
This study examined a comprehensive screening model within children attending Head Start programs from urban (n = 232) and rural (n = 231) communities. The Devereux Early Childhood Assessment (DECA; LeBuffe & Naglieri, 1999) was used to measure social-emotional protective factors (i.e., Total Protective Factors [TPF]) and risk factors (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Urban Programs, Income, Disadvantaged Youth
Moiduddin, Emily; Aikens, Nikki; Tarullo, Louisa; West, Jerry – Administration for Children & Families, 2010
The Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) was first launched in 1997 as a periodic longitudinal study of program performance. Successive nationally representative samples of Head Start children, their families, classrooms, and programs provide descriptive information on the population served; staff qualifications, credentials,…
Descriptors: Family Life, Parent Participation, Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness
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Downs, Andrew; Strand, Paul – Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention, 2008
Emotion recognition is a basic skill that is thought to facilitate development of social and emotional competence. There is little research available examining whether therapeutic or instructional interventions can improve the emotion recognition skill of young children with various developmental disabilities. Sixteen preschool children with…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Emotional Intelligence, Nonverbal Communication