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Camilli, Gregory; Vargas, Sadako; Ryan, Sharon; Barnett, W. Steven – Teachers College Record, 2010
Background/Context: There is much current interest in the impact of early childhood education programs on preschoolers and, in particular, on the magnitude of cognitive and affective gains. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study: Because this new segment of public education requires significant funding, accurate descriptions are…
Descriptors: Small Group Instruction, Program Design, Intervention, Preschool Education
Rabinowitz, Mitchell; Valentine, Kim M. – 1984
Predicting that when presented with a general context children and adults would produce different specific inferences, a study examined children's and adults' script representations of a common event and the use of representation in comprehension. In the first phase of the study, 23 fourth grade and 48 college students were asked to generate…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, College Students