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Download full textDunn, Loraine; Kontos, Susan – 1997
Those who advocate for developmentally appropriate practice (DAP) do so based on the conviction that these classroom practices enhance children's development and facilitate learning. This ERIC Digest examines recent research on DAP and social-emotional and cognitive development, and describes what we have learned about DAP in early childhood…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Development, Childhood Needs, Classroom Environment
Darling, Nancy – 1999
One of the most robust approaches to researching parents' influence on children's social competence is the study of what has been called "parenting style." Parenting style captures two important elements of parenting: parental responsiveness and parental demandingness. Categorizing parents according to whether they are high or low on…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Child Development, Child Rearing, Interpersonal Competence
Torrance, E. Paul; Goff, Kathy – 1990
This digest describes academic creativity and offers suggestions for its development in gifted students. Creative learning and learning by authority are contrasted and examples of each are given. The naturally creative behavior of young children is noted. Among suggestions offered to teachers are: respect the unusual questions of children; show…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Creative Development, Creativity, Elementary Secondary Education
Clark, Patricia – 2001
Noting that much of the early research on the effects of all-day kindergarten had serious problems with internal and external validity due to inadequate methodological standards, this Spanish-language digest reviews research conducted in the 1990s. The digest discusses the academic, social, and behavioral effects of all-day kindergarten, as well…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Research, Full Day Half Day Schedules, Kindergarten
Clark, Patricia – 2001
Much of the early research on the effects of all day kindergarten had serious problems with internal and external validity due to inadequate methodological standards. This digest reviews research conducted in the 1990s. The digest discusses the academic, social, and behavioral effects of all-day kindergarten, as well as parents' and teachers'…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Research, Full Day Half Day Schedules, Kindergarten
Gadsden, Vivian; Ray, Aisha – 2003
Noting that our ability to incorporate the cultural strengths and the distinctive ways that families, specifically fathers, contribute to educational accomplishments of preschool children is severely constrained by major gaps and inadequacy in the research literature, this Digest explores what is known about the role of fathers in young children's…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Development, Emergent Literacy, Emotional Adjustment
Valdivia, Rebeca – 1999
This Digest discusses cultural influences that may lead to the inappropriate diagnosis of a young student as developmentally delayed, and the need to use assessment instruments that are appropriate for use with culturally and linguistically diverse families. In order to determine the appropriateness of norm-referenced instruments for children from…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Influences, Developmental Delays
