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Direct linkOECD Publishing, 2020
The first five years of a child's life is a period of great opportunity, and risk. The cognitive and social-emotional skills that children develop in these early years have long-lasting impacts on their later outcomes throughout schooling and adulthood. The International Early Learning and Child Well-Being Study was designed to help countries…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Young Children, Well Being
Download full textVermont Agency of Education, 2020
Ready for Kindergarten! Survey (R4K!S) is a readiness assessment of children entering kindergarten about students' knowledge and skills within the first six to ten weeks of school. There are many interpretations of what constitutes "readiness." Vermont's concept of children's readiness is multidimensional; it includes social and…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Kindergarten, Young Children, Surveys
Peer reviewedSökezoglu Atigan, Duygu – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2021
Different issues that cause anxiety in people such as future plans, academic success, self-confidence, and health have caused increase in the number of researches focusing on the role of art and music in life. The support of music education in many different development areas of individuals, especially children, has been proven by many studies in…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Activities, Foreign Countries, Cognitive Development
Schwartz, Flora; Zhang, Yuan; Chang, Hyesang; Karraker, Shelby; Kang, Julia Boram; Menon, Vinod – Developmental Science, 2021
Mathematical knowledge is constructed hierarchically from basic understanding of quantities and the symbols that denote them. Discrimination of numerical quantity in both symbolic and non-symbolic formats has been linked to mathematical problem-solving abilities. However, little is known of the extent to which overlap in quantity representations…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Mathematics Skills, Elementary School Students, Young Adults
Jiangling Zhou; Ziyin Mai; Elaine Lau; Connie Lum; Ai Ling Thian; Virginia Yip – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: This study aims to examine the associations of phonological, lexical, and grammatical skills within and between languages in Mandarin-English bilingual preschoolers. Method: Sixty-three Singaporean Mandarin-English bilingual children aged 3-5 years were assessed for articulation, receptive vocabulary, and receptive grammar using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Phonology, Lexicology, Grammar
Daniel Lovatt – Early Childhood Folio, 2025
The notion of children's working theories is an overarching outcome of Aotearoa New Zealand's early childhood curriculum document "Te Whariki." An ever-growing base of research and literature is available about the working theories children hold and ways that teachers might support working theory development. In this article, I draw on…
Descriptors: Childrens Attitudes, Cognitive Processes, Theories, Early Childhood Education
Theresa Elise Wege; Camilla Gilmore; Matthew Inglis – Journal of Numerical Cognition, 2025
Children learn the cardinalities of the first numbers one, two, three and four before they learn how counting tracks cardinality for all numbers. It may be that when children start to understand counting, they also discover how numbers relate to one another in a structured number system. Do children who understand that the cardinality of a set is…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Number Concepts, Arithmetic, Mathematics Skills
Tess Allegra Forest; Layla Bradford; Lorna Ginnell; Maroussia Berger; Donna Herr; Emmie Mbale; Kavindya Dalawella; Chloë A. Jacobs; Chikondi Mchazime; Celia D'Amato; Zamazimba Madi; Pious Clifford Mkaka; Claudia Espinoza-Heredia; Tembeka Mhlakwaphalwa; Vukiwe Ngoma; Monique Gilmore; Marlie Miles; Jinge Ren; Nwabisa Mlandu; Reese Samuels; Michal R. Zieff; Melissa Gladstone; Kirsten A. Donald; Dima Amso – Child Development, 2025
Cognitive development is associated with how predictable caregivers are, but the mechanisms driving this are unclear. One possibility is caregiver predictability initially shapes how infants gather information for learning. Here, caregiver-infant dyads (N = 222, 2-6-months-old, all female caregivers; data collected 2022-2023) in South Africa and…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Caregiver Child Relationship, Infants, Eye Movements
Adenike A. Akinrotimi; Temilola J. Popoola; I. E. Udo – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2025
This paper investigates the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on learning outcomes in Early Childhood Education (ECE) in Nigeria. While AI technologies hold the promise of transforming educational experiences through personalized learning, adaptive assessments, and enhanced engagement, their actual influence on young learners in the Nigerian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Development
Sun, Lihui; Guo, Zhen; Zhou, Danhua – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
In the program-driven information age, programming education is concerned by the global education system, which makes the cultivation of children's programming ability become the focus of attention. However, there is no clear definition of programming ability and teaching model. Through the snowball method, 86 studies from 1980 to 2020 were…
Descriptors: Programming, Computer Science Education, Thinking Skills, Skill Development
Kahn, Jennifer; Bailey, Rebecca; Jones, Stephanie – Aspen Institute, 2019
Research demonstrates a wide range of positive outcomes for children who are physically active, including higher academic achievement, higher likelihood to attend college, increased success in the workplace, lower heath care costs, and decreased risk for obesity and other health problems (Aspen Institute Sport for All Play for Life; Menestrel…
Descriptors: Athletic Coaches, Coaching (Performance), Social Development, Interpersonal Competence
Vermont Agency of Education, 2019
Ready for Kindergarten! Survey (R4K!S) is a readiness assessment of children entering kindergarten about students' knowledge and skills within the first six to ten weeks of school. There are many interpretations of what constitutes "readiness." Vermont's concept of children's readiness is multidimensional; it includes social and…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Surveys, Social Development, Emotional Development
Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2021
If school closures and social-distancing experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic impeded children's skill development, they may leave a lasting legacy in human capital. To understand the pandemic's effects on school children, this paper combines a review of the emerging international literature with new evidence from German longitudinal time-use…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Foreign Countries
Bratož, Silva; Pirih, Anja; Štemberger, Tina – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
Language attitudes play a vital role in the way individuals and societies perceive, use and learn languages, and communicate with other cultures. They are formed in a specific political, ideological, and cultural context and change over time, which is why researchers focus on studying language attitudes of different age groups and also different…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Intercultural Communication
Papasotiri, Garifalia; Saiti, Theodoti – Online Submission, 2021
The mobility of peoples and their settlement in our country has created a new dynamic in dealing with population groups with particular linguistic, cultural and social characteristics. At the same time, it brought to the fore the case of the Roma, who have been active in Greece for decades without being fully integrated into the social and…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Multicultural Education, Minority Group Students, Migrants
