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Hojnoski, Robin L.; Polignano, Joy C.; Caskie, Grace I. L. – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: This study examined age-based developmental trajectories of four key number sense (NS) skills within an accelerated longitudinal design. Using data from 408 preschoolers, ages 45 to 68 months, linear and latent basis growth curves were evaluated. Results indicated growth across NS skills was best represented as nonlinear for all…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Mathematics Skills, Preschool Children, Age Differences
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Gobeil-Bourdeau, Jasmine; Lemelin, Jean-Pascal; Letarte, Marie-Josée; Laurent, Angélique – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Findings: In this study, a combination of variable-oriented and person-oriented statistical analyses was used to examine the links between three temperament factors (negative affectivity, surgency/extraversion, effortful control) evaluated before entry into kindergarten and the cognitive and socioemotional dimensions of school readiness…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Affective Behavior, School Readiness, Kindergarten
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Juan Li; Bowen Xiao; Yanan Zhao; Bingda Zhang; Yan Li – Early Education and Development, 2025
Research Findings: This study aims to examine the latent profiles of parents' mediation and their predictors, as well as links between different profiles and children's problematic media use. A total of 1415 children aged 3-6 years (47.8% boys) and their paired parents were recruited in Shanghai, China and surveyed demographic information,…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Parent Attitudes, Parent Child Relationship, Predictor Variables
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Ji-Young Choi; Shinyoung Jeon; Fattaneh Arabzadehjafari – Early Education and Development, 2024
This secondary analysis study examined patterns, predictors, and outcomes of dual language learners' (DLLs') development in Spanish and English. Research Findings: Latent profile analysis identified three groups of DLLs: Balanced Bilinguals (54%), English-Dominant Bilinguals (25%), and Spanish-Dominant Bilinguals (21%). These groups had fairly…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Spanish, English (Second Language), Language Skills
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Huang, Runke; Geng, Zuofei; Siraj, Iram – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: Self-regulation is an important determinant of children's developmental outcomes, but little research has explored its different facets simultaneously. This study aims to explore a sample of Chinese children's behavioral, cognitive and emotional self-regulation characteristics by examining their gender and age differences,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers
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Hernández, Maciel M.; Eisenberg, Nancy; Valiente, Carlos; Spinrad, Tracy L.; Johns, Sarah K.; Berger, Rebecca H.; Diaz, Anjolii; Silva, Kassondra M.; Thompson, Marilyn S.; Gal-Szabo, Diana E.; Southworth, Jody – Early Education and Development, 2022
Studies with extensive observations of real-life emotions at school are rare but might be especially useful for predicting school-related outcomes. This study evaluated observations of negative emotion expressivity in lunch and recreation settings across kindergarten, first grade, and second grade (N = 301), kindergarten teachers' reports of…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Teacher Student Relationship, Conflict, Emotional Response
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Wang, Yifang; Zhou, Yu; Jiang, Yong; Li, Hui; Liu, Xinxin – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: This study aimed to explore parental satisfaction with Puhui early childhood education (ECE) service in China using evidence from a national validation study. The Parent Satisfaction with the Puhui Early Childhood Education Service Scale (PES) was developed and validated with 4,134 Chinese parents, who were sampled using a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes, Early Childhood Education, Government Role
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Kehoe, Karen F.; McGinty, Anita S.; Williford, Amanda P.; Whittaker, Jessica V. – Early Education and Development, 2021
Research Findings: This study used data from a large-scale kindergarten entry assessment (KEA) to understand how well two state screening measures, administered at school entry, predicted the first-grade reading outcomes of a large sample of first-time kindergarteners (N=5,480) at high risk for future reading failure. We examined young children's…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Self Control, At Risk Students, Reading Failure
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Monica S. Lu; Jessica E. Whittaker; Erik Ruzek; Robert C. Pianta; Virginia E. Vitiello – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: The present study examines the unique and joint effects of individual teacher-child relationships and overall quality of teacher-child interactions on the motivation of 2,745 kindergarten children (51% girls; ages 5--6) from an ethnically and linguistically diverse county. Teachers reported the closeness and conflict in their…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Teacher Student Relationship, Student Motivation, Gender Differences
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Baron, Alex; Malmberg, Lars-Erik; Evangelou, Maria; Nesbitt, Kimberly; Farran, Dale – Early Education and Development, 2020
Make-believe play has been theorized to promote self-regulation skills and other positive child outcomes. In this study, we examine the make-believe play approach featured in the "Tools of the Mind" (Tools) early childhood curriculum, which identifies students' self-regulation cultivation among its core programmatic aims. Using data from…
Descriptors: Play, Imagination, Creativity, Self Control
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Gashaj, Venera; Oberer, Nicole; Mast, Fred W.; Roebers, Claudia M. – Early Education and Development, 2019
Research Findings: This study examined the interrelations between fine motor skills, executive functions, and basic numerical skills in kindergarten as well as their predictive value for mathematics achievement in 2nd grade in a sample of 136 children. Structural equation modeling techniques were used to uncover the unique predictive value and…
Descriptors: Correlation, Executive Function, Psychomotor Skills, Numeracy
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Thierry, Karen L.; Vincent, Rhonda L.; Norris, Karen – Early Education and Development, 2022
This study examined teacher characteristics associated with the fidelity of implementation of a social-emotional learning (SEL) curriculum, known as Settle Your Glitter. Prekindergarten through first-grade teachers (N = 60; 52% African American, 30% White, 18% Hispanic/Latinx) from seven schools were observed delivering lessons during the first…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Fidelity, Curriculum Implementation, Social Emotional Learning
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Lewis, Emily A.; Weixler, Lindsay Bell – Early Education and Development, 2019
Research Findings: This study investigates the role of fine motor and mathematics instruction in mathematics achievement in an international sample of kindergarteners from the United States and China. Multilevel modeling was used to assess the interaction between students' entering skills and classroom time spent on basic math, higher-order math…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Achievement, Kindergarten
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Guo, Ying; Puranik, Cynthia; Kelcey, Ben; Sun, Jing; Dinnesen, Megan Schneider; Breit-Smith, Allison – Early Education and Development, 2021
Research Findings: Home literacy practices are an important variable in the development of literacy skills among children. However, several questions regarding the relationship between home literacy practices and writing are unanswered. The objective of this correlational study is to examine the relationship between reading-related and…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Family Literacy, Family Environment, Literacy Education
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Sheridan, Susan M.; Knoche, Lisa L.; Boise, Courtney; Witte, Amanda; Koziol, Natalie; Prokasky, Amanda; Schumacher, Rachel; Kerby, Hannah – Early Education and Development, 2022
Social-behavioral functioning during early childhood is associated with children's academic and social success concurrently and over time. This study explored how concurrent, year-to-year, and sustained parent--teacher and student--teacher relationships predicted children's social skills and problem behaviors across the preschool to Grade 1…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Elementary School Students, Preschool Education, Kindergarten
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