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Steven J. Howard; Kate L. Lewis; Emma Walter; Irina Verenikina; Lisa K. Kervin – Educational Psychology Review, 2024
Substantial research has aimed to characterise and measure early childhood education and care (ECEC) quality. However, heterogeneity in measures, methods and contexts across studies has made it difficult to reconcile the inconsistent associations reported between quality dimensions and child outcomes. While there is broad consensus that early…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Interaction, Child Development, Teacher Student Relationship
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Cohen, Jonathan; McCabe, Libby; Michelli, Nicholas M.; Pickeral, Terry – Teachers College Record, 2009
Background/Context: Educators have written about and studied school climate for 100 years. School climate refers to the quality and character of school life. School climate is based on patterns of people's experiences of school life and reflects norms, goals, values, interpersonal relationships, teaching and learning practices, and organizational…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Research Design, Research Methodology, Academic Achievement
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Monks, F. J.; And Others – Human Development, 1975
This paper describes the design of the interdisciplinary study of the growth and development of Dutch children in progress at the University of Nymegen, The Netherlands. Schaie's design is based on a trifactorial model which isolates the contributions to developmental data of the factors age, cohort and time of measurement. (Author/MS)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Hein, George E. – 1975
The premises of open education and related developmental and social issues are explained as an aid to educational practitioners in choosing the proper measurement and evaluation strategies for this philosophy. In addition, a position statement on evaluation is offered and the present status of educational evaluation is outlined. Some…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Development, Educational Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Meece, Judith L., Ed.; Eccles, Jacquelynne S., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2010
Children spend more time in school than in any social institution outside the home. And schools probably exert more influence on children's development and life chances than any environment beyond the home and neighbourhood. The purpose of this book is to document some important ways schools influence children's development and to describe various…
Descriptors: Guides, Educational Research, Child Development, Teacher Student Relationship
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Eccles, Jacquelynne S. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1998
Comments on Skinner, Zimmer-Gembeck and Connell's study (PS 528 522) which investigated the relationship between elementary school students' beliefs-performance cycles and their perceived control and classroom engagement. Notes methodological and theoretical issues and controversial issues raised by the study. Discusses the links to other…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Development, Class Activities, Classroom Environment