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ERIC Number: EJ1277240
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 30
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ISSN: ISSN-1090-1027
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Web-Based Professional Development for Improving Early Childhood Professionals' Actual and Perceived Knowledge of Dual Language Learners
Gardner-Neblett, Nicole; Franco, Ximena; Mincemoyer, Claudia; Morgan-Lopez, Antonio A.
Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, v41 n4 p403-432 2020
Web-based professional development has the potential to increase the early childhood workforce's knowledge of young dual language learners (DLLs). Yet there is a gap in the literature on web-based professional development specific to DLLs and its role in changes in actual and perceived knowledge among early childhood professionals. To begin addressing this gap, the current study examines the associations between early childhood professionals' participation in a web-based learning platform with targeted content on supporting young DLLs and changes in actual and perceived knowledge about DLLs. This study also examines how background characteristics and experiences may be associated with increases in knowledge after module participation. Results show increases in participants' actual and perceived knowledge after completing the module. Relevant background characteristics included having a college-degree, working in home-based child care, and participating in DLL-specific professional development within the prior year. Having prior DLL-specific professional development moderated the links between pre-module knowledge and post-module knowledge. These results highlight the relevance of web-based professional development as an approach to building the knowledge of early childhood professionals to work with young DLLs.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Preschool Education
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Language: English
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