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Gilligan, Therese; McNally, Sinéad; Lovett, Judy; Farell, Therese; Kumar, Sona; McLoughlin, Eilish; Corriveau, Kathleen – Early Education and Development, 2023
The under-representation of women in science disciplines is a persistent problem for workplaces and educational policy. Girls may start to disengage early from science subjects, partly due to cultural stereotypes around science and gender. Early language interventions which introduce science activities in terms of action (or process) versus…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disproportionate Representation, Females, Science Education
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Ji-Young Choi; Shinyoung Jeon; Fattaneh Arabzadehjafari – Early Education and Development, 2024
This secondary analysis study examined patterns, predictors, and outcomes of dual language learners' (DLLs') development in Spanish and English. Research Findings: Latent profile analysis identified three groups of DLLs: Balanced Bilinguals (54%), English-Dominant Bilinguals (25%), and Spanish-Dominant Bilinguals (21%). These groups had fairly…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Spanish, English (Second Language), Language Skills
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Shaocong Ma; Jingchen Li; Eva E. Chen – Early Education and Development, 2024
Despite the wide usage of screen media among young children, less is known about the relationships between children's screen time and their social competence development as impacted by family-related factors. Here, we investigated parents' engagement, children's screen time, and their social competence among Taiwanese Chinese children's families…
Descriptors: Young Children, Foreign Countries, Social Development, Mass Media Use
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McGowan, Amanda L.; Gerde, Hope K.; Pfeiffer, Karin A.; Pontifex, Matthew B. – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: The present study examined the associations among meeting 24-hour movement behavior recommendations set by the World Health Organization (2019) and young children's self-regulation and quantity estimation skills in a sample of 123 children (n = 65 female; 4.9 ± 0.7 years) in mid-Michigan. Meeting screen time recommendations…
Descriptors: Motion, Child Behavior, Guidelines, Computation
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Liang, Yuan; Zhang, Lijin; Long, Yang; Deng, Qian; Liu, Yujuan – Early Education and Development, 2020
Research Findings: Low-socioeconomic status (SES) (intervention group, n = 31; control group, n = 32) and middle/high-SES (reference group, n = 33) 5-year-old Chinese kindergartners were screened through SES and IQ test. Their number sense was examined over five time points. The pretest was conducted at the beginning of the fall semester, followed…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Mathematics Instruction, Play, Low Income Students
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Schacter, John; Shih, Jeff; Allen, Charles M.; DeVaul, Lina; Adkins, Amy B.; Ito, Taro; Jo, Booil – Early Education and Development, 2016
Research Findings: Effective preschool mathematics instruction is especially important for low-income children. Previous research demonstrates that low-income children enter kindergarten behind their middle-income peers. They receive less mathematics support at home and from public preschools. The aim of this study was to test Math Shelf, a tablet…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Preschool Education, Low Income Groups, At Risk Students