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Download full textMurphey, David A. – Early Childhood Research and Practice: An Internet Journal on the Development, Care, and Education of Young Children., 2003
Discriminant validity of a measure of children's readiness for school was assessed by testing whether it distinguished between groups of children hypothesized to differ, on the basis of demographic characteristics, in their school readiness. The volunteer sample consisted of 3,370 kindergartners in Vermont public schools. Previous group care…
Descriptors: Child Care, Community Characteristics, Demography, Early Experience
