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Day, Kimberly L.; Smith, Cynthia L.; Neal, Amy; Dunsmore, Julie C. – Early Education and Development, 2018
Research Findings: In addition to being a regulatory strategy, children's private speech may enhance or interfere with their effortful control used to regulate emotion. The goal of the current study was to investigate whether children's private speech during a selective attention task moderated the relations of their effortful control to their…
Descriptors: Speech, Preschool Children, Self Control, Emotional Response
Mantzicopoulos, Panayota; French, Brian F.; Patrick, Helen – Early Education and Development, 2018
Research Findings: We evaluated the score stability of the Mathematical Quality of Instruction (MQI), an observational measure of mathematics instruction. Three raters each scored, independently, 100 video-recorded lessons taught by 20 kindergarten teachers in the spring. Using generalizability theory analyses, we decomposed the MQI's score…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Mathematics Instruction, Educational Quality, Classroom Observation Techniques
Pianta, Robert C.; Whittaker, Jessica E.; Vitiello, Virginia; Ansari, Arya; Ruzek, Erik – Early Education and Development, 2018
Research Findings: The present study used data from 117 publicly funded preschool classrooms within a large, diverse, suburban county to describe teacher practices and child engagement along with classroom activity settings and children's exposure to instructional content. Practice or Policy: Results from this investigation revealed that children…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Suburban Schools, Public Schools, Educational Opportunities
Phillips, Krishtine; Downer, Jason – Early Education and Development, 2017
Research Findings: This study investigated the relationship between features of the classroom environment and misalignment between teacher and observer ratings of preschoolers' classroom engagement and the extent to which years of teaching experience moderated this relationship. In a sample of 116 preschoolers and 21 teachers in 29 classrooms,…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Teaching Experience, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children
van Polanen, Marleen; Colonnesi, Cristina; Fukkink, Ruben G.; Tavecchio, Louis W. C. – Early Education and Development, 2017
Outcomes of studies with exclusively or predominantly female caregivers suggest that boys in child care are involved with interactions, attachment relationships, and care of lower quality than girls. We investigated to what extent child gender (N = 38, 19 boys) and caregiver gender (N = 38, 19 males) is associated with child-caregiver interactions…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Child Caregivers, Caregiver Child Relationship, Interaction
Ryoo, Ji Hoon; Molfese, Victoria J.; Brown, E. Todd – Early Education and Development, 2018
This longitudinal study examined the influence of prekindergarten teacher characteristics and classroom instructional processes during mathematical activities on the growth of mathematics learning scores in prekindergarten, kindergarten, and first grade. Participants attended state-funded and Head Start prekindergarten programs. Mathematical…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Characteristics, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Tests
Gropen, Jess; Kook, Janna F.; Hoisington, Cindy; Clark-Chiarelli, Nancy – Early Education and Development, 2017
Young children are able to benefit from early science teaching but many preschool teachers have not had opportunities to deepen their own understanding of science or to develop their pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) in relation to specific science topics and concepts. This study presents the results of efficacy research on Foundations of…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Faculty Development, Science Instruction
Phillips, Beth M.; Zhao, Yuting; Weekley, M. Jane – Early Education and Development, 2018
Research Findings: This study reports initial descriptive and validity results of a new early childhood classroom observation measure, the Classroom Language Environment Observation Scales (CLEOS), designed to capture teachers' use of both implicit language supports (e.g., incidental scaffolding and shared reading) and more explicit language…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Correlation, Linguistic Input, Language Usage
van de Sande, Eva; Segers, Eliane; Verhoeven, Ludo – Early Education and Development, 2018
The current study used a dyadic and coconstructive approach to examine how to embed exercises that support executive functioning into early literacy instruction to empower its effects. Using a randomized controlled trial design with 100 children, we examined the effects of dyadic activities in which children scaffolded each other's learning and…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Executive Function, Literacy Education, Emergent Literacy
Bachman, Heather J.; Degol, Jessica L.; Elliott, Leanne; Scharphorn, Laura; El Nokali, Nermeen E.; Palmer, Kalani M. – Early Education and Development, 2018
Research Findings: The present study examined the amount of exposure to math activities that children of low socioeconomic status (SES) encounter in private community-based preschool classrooms and whether greater time in these activities predicted higher math skills. Three cohorts of 4- to 5-year-old children were recruited from 30 private…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Private Schools
Whittaker, Jessica E. V.; Williford, Amanda P.; Carter, Lauren M.; Vitiello, Virginia E.; Hatfield, Bridget E. – Early Education and Development, 2018
Research Findings: This study explored the quality of teacher-child interactions within the context of a newly developed standardized task, Teacher-Child Structured Play Task (TC-SPT). A sample of 146 teachers and 345 children participated. Children who displayed the highest disruptive behaviors within each classroom were selected to participate.…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Interaction, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers
Miranda, Nekane; Larrea, Inaki; Muela, Alexander; Barandiaran, Alexander – Early Education and Development, 2017
Research Findings: The primary purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between social play and involvement in the outdoor preschool environment. The study included 173 children ranging in age from 3 to 6 years (M[subscript age] = 3.95, SD = 0.82) and attending 19 preschools in the Basque Country (Spain). A total of 51 teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Play, Social Behavior
Hartz, Karyn; Williford, Amanda P.; Koomen, Helma M. Y. – Early Education and Development, 2017
Research Findings: The present study examined associations between children's classroom interactions and teachers' perceptions of teacher-child relationships during 1 year of preschool. Teachers (n = 223) reported their perceptions of closeness and conflict in their teacher-child relationships in the fall and spring. Children's (n = 895) positive…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Teacher Attitudes, Correlation, Classroom Communication
McGuire, Patrick R.; Kinzie, Mable; Thunder, Kateri; Berry, Robert – Early Education and Development, 2016
Research Findings: This study analyzed the quality of teacher-child interactions across 10 videotaped observations drawn from 5 different prekindergarten classrooms delivering the same mathematics curriculum: "MyTeachingPartner-Math." Interactions were coded using 2 observational measures: (a) a general measure, the Classroom Assessment…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Video Technology, Observation, Preschool Education
Lee, Linda S. – Early Education and Development, 2016
Research Findings: The present study investigated the role of ethnic similarity in the peer preferences and play quality of Latino and Chinese children enrolled in Head Start classrooms and the relationship between peer acceptance and social adjustment in these groups. Participants were 244 children (M = 4.6 years old) from Head Start preschools…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Hispanic American Students, Asian American Students, Federal Programs