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Wang, Lei; Li, Hui; Dill, Sarah-Eve; Zhang, Siqi; Rozelle, Scott – Applied Developmental Science, 2022
Research in developed countries has found that paternal involvement has positive and significant effects on early childhood development (ECD). Less is known, however, about the state of paternal involvement and its influence on ECD in rural China. Using data collected in Southern China that included 1,460 children aged 6-42 months and their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Parent Participation, Child Development
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Justice, Laura M.; Logan, Jessica A.; Purtell, Kelly; Bleses, Dorthe; Højen, Anders – Applied Developmental Science, 2019
As early childhood education programming expands across the globe, there is an increased need to understand how features of these programs influence children's development. The composition of children's age within a classroom is one such feature, although it is much less studied than other features. Theoretical and empirical evidence suggests that…
Descriptors: Mixed Age Grouping, Early Childhood Education, Child Language, Language Acquisition
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Smith, Chauncey D.; Smith Lee, Jocelyn R. – Applied Developmental Science, 2020
This commentary engages the three elements of a social justice framework in the study of African American Boys and Men's (AABM) positive development, proposed by Barbarin, Tolan, and Gaylord-Harden (2019). In agreement with the importance of and in support of employing a social justice framework in developmental science, we offer theoretical and…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Humanism, African Americans, Males
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Mashburn, Andrew; Justice, Laura M.; McGinty, Anita; Slocum, Laura – Applied Developmental Science, 2016
Read It Again (RIA) is a curriculum for pre-kindergarten (pre-K) classrooms that targets children's development of language and literacy skills. A cluster randomized trial was conducted in which 104 pre-K classrooms in the Appalachian region of the United States were randomly assigned to one of three study conditions: Control (n = 30), RIA only…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Language Acquisition, Literacy, Child Development
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Goble, Priscilla; Pianta, Robert C.; Sabol, Terri J. – Applied Developmental Science, 2019
A person-oriented approach examined the extent to which patterns of school readiness across social and cognitive domains in 944 typically-developing 54-month-old children forecast academic achievement, social-emotional development, risk taking, and executive functioning at age 15. Prior work identified six distinct profiles of school readiness at…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Young Children, Predictor Variables, Academic Achievement
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Baker, Claire E. – Applied Developmental Science, 2013
The relations between fathers' and mothers' home literacy involvement at 24 months and children's cognitive and social emotional development in preschool were examined using a large sample of African American and Caucasian families ("N" = 5190) from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (ECLS-B). Hierarchical…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Cognitive Development, Social Development, Emotional Development
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LeBoeuf, Whitney A.; Fantuzzo, John W.; Lopez, Michael L. – Applied Developmental Science, 2010
This study explored the importance of using relevant measures when evaluating the effectiveness of early childhood interventions. Data from the federally-funded evaluation of the Comprehensive Child Development Program were used to examine whether the behavior measure, the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), was an appropriate tool for the diverse…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Behavior Problems, Early Childhood Education, Young Children
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Perry, Marlo A.; Fantuzzo, John W. – Applied Developmental Science, 2010
Utilizing a developmental-ecological framework, the purpose of this study was to understand the unique impact of multiple maternal risks across time on ethnically diverse, low-income, preschool children's cognitive skills, pro-social behaviors, and behavior problems. Additionally, this study sought to understand the variability of maternal risks…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Low Income Groups, Competence, Cognitive Development
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Zaff, Jonathan F.; Smerdon, Becky – Applied Developmental Science, 2009
In this article, we argue that policymakers in America should reference a coherent, comprehensive, and child-centered framework for children. That is, based on an extensive review of the empirical literature on the first two decades of life, we conclude that policies should address the needs of young people throughout the first two decades of…
Descriptors: Children, Young Adults, Public Policy, Child Welfare
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Pittman, Laura D.; Boswell, Michelle K. – Applied Developmental Science, 2007
Little is known about how grandmothers may influence children's development, although they may frequently assist parents in the raising of their children, especially among low-income families. Data from Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study were used to explore how preschoolers function academically and psychologically over time…
Descriptors: Family (Sociological Unit), Family Characteristics, Low Income Groups, Grandparents
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Mashburn, Andrew J. – Applied Developmental Science, 2008
This study examined associations between quality of social and physical environments in preschools and children's development of academic, language, and literacy skills, and the extent to which preschool quality moderated the associations between child risk and development. Participants were a diverse sample of 540 four-year-old children in…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Family Income, Preschool Children, Disadvantaged Youth
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Gable, Sara; Krull, Jennifer L.; Chang, Yiting – Applied Developmental Science, 2009
The current study examines the social and behavioral development of school-age children with different histories of overweight onset. Eight thousand children from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K) participated. Three groups of children were identified for analysis: (1) those who were persistently overweight from…
Descriptors: Obesity, Family Characteristics, Children, Kindergarten
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Morrissey, Taryn W.; Warner, Mildred E. – Applied Developmental Science, 2007
High-quality early care and education (ECE) programs promote positive child outcomes, allow parents to work, and contribute to the local economy. Although extant research takes into account the ECE sector in its entirety, recent economic and policy interest has centered on part-day prekindergarten for 3- and 4-year-olds only. Using an ecological…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Holistic Approach, Early Childhood Education, Child Care
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Cabrera, Natasha J.; Shannon, Jacqueline D.; Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine – Applied Developmental Science, 2007
We present findings based on several of our recent studies that have shown that father engagement has significant effects on children's cognition and language at 24 and 36 months and their social and emotional development at 24, 36 months, and pre-Kindergarten. These studies are guided by the Dynamics of Paternal Influences on Children over the…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Preschool Children, Depression (Psychology), Fathers
Maggs, Jennifer L.; Schulenberg, John – Applied Developmental Science, 2001
Prevention and developmental sciences have many complementary goals and much to gain by collaboration. The article introduces this special issue, which includes four empirical articles using growth modeling techniques (hierarchical linear modeling, latent growth curve analyses) to examine direct and indirect effects of theory-based, longitudinal…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Child Development, Children