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Gold, Zachary S.; Elicker, James; Kellerman, Ashleigh M.; Christ, Sharon; Mishra, Aura A.; Howe, Nina – Early Education and Development, 2021
Research Findings: Engineering play is a new framework for understanding constructive block building as a design process. The current study examined associations between engineering play with wooden unit blocks and mathematics and spatial skills of children with and without disabilities. Participants included 110 preschoolers (44% female; 25%…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Numeracy, Spatial Ability, Geometric Concepts
Encinger, Amy; Shizu Kutaka, Traci; Chernyavskiy, Pavel; Acar, Ibrahim H.; Raikes, Helen H. – Early Education and Development, 2020
Research Findings: Marginal food security is less studied relative to food insecurity but may also have adverse effects on family outcomes. The present study examined whether parental stress mediated the relationship between marginal food security (MFS) and preschool-aged children's observed self-regulation at three early education centers located…
Descriptors: Correlation, Low Income, Preschool Children, Self Control
Iruka, Iheoma U.; Kainz, Kirsten; Kuhn, Laura; Guss, Shannon; Tokarz, Stephanie; Yazejian, Noreen; NiƱo, Silvia – Early Education and Development, 2023
This study identified patterns of classroom and family experiences and developmental outcomes for young children in segregated early education. This study is based on data from a high-quality early education program serving young children from low-income households in 19 schools across the U.S. The sample included 1,521 children during the…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Culturally Relevant Education, Risk, Racial Composition
Cline, Keely D.; Edwards, Carolyn Pope – Early Education and Development, 2017
Research Findings: The objective of this study was to understand how instructional book-reading style and emotional quality of reading interact and relate to cognitive skills in a sample of at-risk infants and toddlers. Participants were 81 parents and their children participating in Early Head Start programs in the rural Midwest. Correlation and…
Descriptors: Story Reading, Parent Child Relationship, Early Intervention, Preschool Education
Barghaus, Katherine M.; Fantuzzo, John W. – Early Education and Development, 2014
Research Findings: This study provides the first independent investigation of the second most widely used multidimensional assessment in Head Start--the Preschool Child Observation Record, Second Edition (COR-2). We conducted a comprehensive investigation into the validity of the COR-2 using data from all children in an urban school district's…
Descriptors: Observation, Federal Programs, Preschool Education, Validity
Terranova, Andrew M.; Morris, Amanda Sheffield; Myers, Sonya; Kithakye, Mumbe; Morris, Michael D. S. – Early Education and Development, 2015
Research Findings: It is clear that disasters negatively affect both adults and children. Yet there is little research examining the mechanisms whereby some people are negatively affected by disasters whereas others are resilient to these negative effects. Family functioning and child characteristics might be factors that influence the impact of…
Descriptors: Weather, Natural Disasters, Emotional Response, Parents
Jacoby, Jennifer Wallace; Lesaux, Nonie K. – Early Education and Development, 2014
A study was conducted in a large Head Start organization that serves large numbers of Latino children in order to empirically describe the nature and quality of the classroom language learning environment. By observing 147 literacy-based lessons in 6 classrooms and surveying 167 teachers throughout the organization, we investigated the amount of…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Federal Programs, Low Income Groups
Garner, Pamela W.; Mahatmya, Duhita; Moses, Laurence Kimberly; Bolt, Elizabeth N. – Early Education and Development, 2014
Research Findings: This study examined associations of preschool type (i.e., urban and suburban Head Start and university-affiliated center) and teacher-child variables with positive and negative child outcomes among 145 preschoolers (74 boys). Differences emerged across preschools, with urban Head Start children scoring lowest on the emotional…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Nursery Schools, Teacher Student Relationship, Preschool Teachers
Bierman, Karen L.; Sanford DeRousie, Rebecca M.; Heinrichs, Brenda; Domitrovich, Celene E.; Greenberg, Mark T.; Gill, Sukhdeep – Early Education and Development, 2013
Research Findings: Recent research has validated the power of evidence-based preschool interventions to improve teaching quality and promote child school readiness when implemented in the context of research trials. However, very rarely are follow-up assessments conducted with teachers in order to evaluate the maintenance of improved teaching…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Evidence, Teacher Effectiveness, Instructional Effectiveness
Cline, Keely Dyan; Edwards, Carolyn Pope – Early Education and Development, 2013
Research Findings: The objective of this study was to understand how two dimensions of parent-child book-reading quality--instructional and emotional--interact and relate to learning in a sample of low-income infants and toddlers. Participants included 81 parents and their children from Early Head Start programs in the rural Midwest. Correlation…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Rural Areas, Parents, Correlation