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Derman-Sparks, Louise – Journal of Pedagogy, 2016
This article, written by one of the teachers in the Ypsilanti Perry Preschool Project (1962-1967), critically examines the prevailing narrative about the preschool project's relationship to the High/Scope Educational Foundation. It describes what the author and other teachers actually did, the principles that informed their practice, and…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Longitudinal Studies, Civil Rights, Equal Education
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Pituch, Keenan A.; Whittaker, Tiffany A.; Chang, Wanchen – American Journal of Evaluation, 2016
Use of multivariate analysis (e.g., multivariate analysis of variance) is common when normally distributed outcomes are collected in intervention research. However, when mixed responses--a set of normal and binary outcomes--are collected, standard multivariate analyses are no longer suitable. While mixed responses are often obtained in…
Descriptors: Intervention, Multivariate Analysis, Mixed Methods Research, Models
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Durlak, Joseph A.; Weissberg, Roger P.; Dymnicki, Allison B.; Taylor, Rebecca D.; Schellinger, Kriston B. – Child Development, 2011
This article presents findings from a meta-analysis of 213 school-based, universal social and emotional learning (SEL) programs involving 270,034 kindergarten through high school students. Compared to controls, SEL participants demonstrated significantly improved social and emotional skills, attitudes, behavior, and academic performance that…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Emotional Development, Social Development, Control Groups
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Kuppen, Sarah; Huss, Martina; Fosker, Tim; Fegan, Natasha; Goswami, Usha – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2011
We explore the relationships between basic auditory processing, phonological awareness, vocabulary, and word reading in a sample of 95 children, 55 typically developing children, and 40 children with low IQ. All children received nonspeech auditory processing tasks, phonological processing and literacy measures, and a receptive vocabulary task.…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Intelligence Quotient, Reading Skills, Children
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Alderson-Day, Ben; McGonigle-Chalmers, Margaret – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2011
Fourteen children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and fourteen age-matched typically-developing (TD) controls were tested on an adapted version of the Twenty Questions Task (Mosher and Hornsby in Studies in cognitive growth. Wiley, New York, pp 86-102, "1966") to examine effects of content, executive and verbal IQ factors on category use in…
Descriptors: Autism, Problem Solving, Short Term Memory, Children
Miller, Sarah; Maguire, Lisa K.; Macdonald, Geraldine – Campbell Collaboration, 2011
The purpose of this research is to determine the effects of home-based programmes aimed specifically at improving developmental outcomes for preschool children from socially disadvantaged families. The authors searched the following databases between 7 October and 12 October 2010: Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) (2010,…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Child Development, Intervention, Preschool Children
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Florez, Ida Rose – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2011
Case analysis is often used in early childhood teacher education as a constructivist method for developing students' professional skills and knowledge. Although case-based instruction is popular, the professional literature contains little empirical evidence that it effectively helps students develop professional knowledge. Indeed, some empirical…
Descriptors: Evidence, Constructivism (Learning), Prior Learning, Case Method (Teaching Technique)
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Schneider, Phyllis; Hayward, Denyse – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2010
Purpose: This article describes the development of a measure, called First Mentions (FM), that can be used to evaluate the referring expressions that children use to introduce characters and objects when telling a story. Method: Participants were 377 children ages 4 to 9 years (300 with typical development, 77 with language impairment) who told…
Descriptors: Age, Language Impairments, Story Telling, Young Children
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Topping, Keith J.; Barron, Ian G. – Review of Educational Research, 2009
In this systematic and critical review of purely school based child sexual abuse prevention program efficacy studies, 22 studies meeting the inclusion criteria differed by target population, program implementation, and evaluation methodology. Measured outcomes for children included knowledge, skills, emotion, risk perception, touch discrimination,…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Prevention, Program Implementation
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Sullivan, Margaret Wolan; Carmody, Dennis P.; Lewis, Michael – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2010
To explore whether punitive parenting styles contribute to early-acquired emotion knowledge deficits observable in neglected children, we observed 42 preschool children's emotion knowledge, expression recognition time, and IQ. The children's mothers completed the Parent-Child Conflict Tactics Scales to assess the recent use of three types of…
Descriptors: Child Neglect, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Intelligence Quotient
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Salmon, Karen; Dadds, Mark R.; Allen, Jennifer; Hawes, David J. – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2009
To assess the effectiveness of providing training in elaborative, emotion rich reminiscing (emotional reminiscing, ER) as an adjunct to Parent Management Training (PMT) for parents of children (N = 38, M age = 56.9, SD = 15.8 months) with oppositional behaviors. "Control" parents received PMT and non-language adjunct intervention, child-directed…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Play, Intervention, Preschool Children
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Clifford, Sally M; Dissanayake, Cheryl – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2008
The aim in the current study was to investigate the early development of joint attention, eye contact and affect during the first 2 years of life, by using retrospective parental interviews and analyses of home videos of infants who were later diagnosed with Autistic Disorder (AD). The 36 children with AD and the 27 matched control children were…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Autism, Infants, Human Body
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Culp, Anne McDonald; Culp, R. E.; Anderson, J. W.; Carter, S. – Health Education Research, 2007
A health education program was evaluated which used child development specialists as home visitors and served a population of first-time mothers living in rural communities. The evaluation compared health and safety outcomes between intervention and control groups. The research staff, separate from the intervention staff, collected data in the…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Contraception, Health Education, Mothers
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Caldera, Debra; Burrell, Lori; Rodriguez, Kira; Crowne, Sarah Shea; Rohde, Charles; Duggan, Anne – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2007
Objectives: To assess the impact of a voluntary, paraprofessional home visiting program on promoting child health and development and maternal parenting knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. Methods: This collaborative, experimental study of 6 Healthy Families Alaska (HFAK) programs enrolled 325 families from 1/00 to 7/01, randomly assigned them to…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Family Environment, Child Rearing, Child Health
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Daniel, Marie-France; Doudin, Pierre-Andre; Pons, Francisco – Journal of Peace Education, 2006
The ultimate goal of peace education is "to minimise and eventually eliminate various forms of violence through consciousness raising, vision, and action" (Brantmeier, E. (2003) Peace Pedagogy: exposing and integrating peace education in teacher education. Paper presented at the "Association for Teacher Educators" meeting, p. 6). Our position is…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Psychologists, Preschool Children
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