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Morsy, Leila; Rothstein, Richard – Economic Policy Institute, 2015
Recent developments in employment practices have increased the prevalence of non-standard work schedules--non-daytime shifts in which most hours do not fall between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., when shifts rotate, or when schedules vary weekly or otherwise. For example, computer software now enables retail, restaurant, service, and other firms to predict…
Descriptors: Employed Parents, Working Hours, Child Rearing, Child Development
Jan Blacher; Abbey Eisenhower – Exceptional Children, 2023
Viewed through a social justice lens, preschool expulsion is an educational equity issue. This study focused on prior expulsion from preschool and child-care in a longitudinal study of 203 autistic children, ages 4 to 7. By parent report, 16%--one out of six autistic children--had been expelled from a preschool or child-care setting prior to…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Expulsion, Child Behavior, Behavior Problems
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Islam, Md. Kabirul; Sarker, Md. Fouad Hossain; Islam, M. Saiful – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2022
This empirical study is conducted in a blended learning setting of a technology-focused private university in Bangladesh to offer a model that could help attain a comprehensive goal of blended learning. The main objectives of this study are to examine course design in a blended learning setting, strategies adopted by the course teachers to…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Blended Learning, Higher Education, Models
DeCamp, Heather – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This qualitative case study aimed to evaluate instructional best practices in reading, particularly close reading components and strategies that can predict student success, specifically in middle school students in an inner-city setting. The implementation of close reading instructional strategies is said to impose a higher level of cognitive…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Best Practices, Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction
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Chowdhury, Mohammad – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Sciences, 2016
This article presents the rationale and arguments for the presence of morals, values, ethics and character education in science curriculum and science teaching. The author examines how rapid science and technological advancements and globalization are contributing to the complexities of social life and underpinning the importance of morals, values…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Ethics, Teaching Methods, Cognitive Development
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Murray, Lynne; De Pascalis, Leonardo; Tomlinson, Mark; Vally, Zahir; Dadomo, Harold; MacLachlan, Brenda; Woodward, Charlotte; Cooper, Peter J. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2016
Background: Consistent with evidence from high-income countries (HICs), we previously showed that, in an informal peri-urban settlement in a low-middle income country, training parents in book sharing with their infants benefitted infant language and attention (Vally, Murray, Tomlinson, & Cooper, [Vally, Z., 2015]). Here, we investigated…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Foreign Countries, Low Income Groups, Parent Education
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Narikbaeva, Lora M. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
This article deals with the problem of students' giftedness development. Students' test results (n = 851) for "IQ level" and "creativity level" indicators demonstrated the need to improve the quality of work in reference to students' professional giftedness development at the university. Designed complex of pedagogical…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Intelligence Quotient, College Students, Student Development
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Mori, Arianna; Cigala, Ada – Educational Psychology Review, 2016
Perspective taking, defined as the ability to take on the visual, cognitive, and affective perspective of others, is considered a highly adaptive skill, vital for the child's social, intellectual, and emotional development. This article provides a critical analysis of scientific psychological literature from 1995 to the present on the main methods…
Descriptors: Perspective Taking, Literature Reviews, Intervention, Preschool Children
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Riggs, Anne E.; Young, Andrew G. – Developmental Psychology, 2016
What influences children's normative judgments of conventional rules at different points in development? The current study explored the effects of two contextual factors on children's normative reasoning: the way in which the rules were learned and whether the rules apply to the self or others. Peer dyads practiced a novel collaborative board game…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Logical Thinking, Context Effect
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Mukunthan, Thevarasa – International Journal of Early Childhood Education and Care, 2016
The present study was conducted mainly to investigate the applicability of children's conception space presented in Piaget's Cognitive Development theory to Sri Lankan children. The study attempted to identify whether there were variations in Sri Lankan children's conception of space according to the sectors i.e. urban, rural and estate, they live…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Development, Child Development, Place of Residence
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Tillmann, J.; Ashwood, K.; Absoud, M.; Bölte, S.; Bonnet-Brilhault, F.; Buitelaar, J. K.; Calderoni, S.; Calvo, R.; Canal-Bedia, R.; Canitano, R.; De Bildt, A.; Gomot, M.; Hoekstra, P. J.; Kaale, A.; McConachie, H.; Murphy, D. G.; Narzisi, A.; Oosterling, I.; Pejovic-Milovancevic, M.; Persico, A. M.; Puig, O.; Roeyers, H.; Rommelse, N.; Sacco, R.; Scandurra, V.; Stanfield, A. C.; Zander, E.; Charman, T. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2018
Research on sex-related differences in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has been impeded by small samples. We pooled 28 datasets from 18 sites across nine European countries to examine sex differences in the ASD phenotype on the ADI-R (376 females, 1763 males) and ADOS (233 females, 1187 males). On the ADI-R, early childhood restricted and…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Age Differences, Diagnostic Tests, Observation
Oleen-Junk, Nicholas A. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Scholars in the helping professions have become increasingly concerned with how the fruits of their labor can promote social justice (e.g., Vera & Speight, 2003; Swank & Fahs, 2013, North, 2009). At present, there is a lack of theoretical convergence around what social justice consciousness, aptitude, awareness, or orientation actually…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Moral Development, Cognitive Development, Moral Values
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Taylor, Kari B. – New Directions for Student Services, 2016
This chapter synthesizes foundational theories of cognitive development and then presents diverse and critical perspectives to examine how power and privilege influence cognitive development.
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Theories, Power Structure, Social Influences
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Padmanabha, C. H. – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2018
"Critical", "Criticism", and "Critic" all come from the age-old Greek word "Kritikos", meaning able to authorise, discern, or decide. In contemporary English, a "Critic" is someone whose job is to make appraise judgements, for example, about films, books, music, or food. It means giving a fair and…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Reflection, Cognitive Development, Piagetian Theory
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Seidler, Anna Lene; Ritchie, Stuart J. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2018
There are socioeconomic-status (SES) differences in cognitive development. Various factors have been proposed that might explain this association, and one of these factors is the home environment. The present study examined a chaotic home atmosphere as a potential mediator of the association between parental SES and cognitive development. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Status, Cognitive Development, Young Children
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