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Bilingual Infants Are More Sensitive to Morally Relevant Social Behavior than Monolingual Infants
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Singh, Leher – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2020
Forming social evaluations of others is a core component of social cognition. In this study, the relationship between bilingual experience and social evaluations was investigated in 8-month-old infants. We compared monolingual and bilingual infants' responses to third-party interactions where characters performed prosocial and antisocial actions…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Moral Values, Infants, Prosocial Behavior
From Flawed Design to Misleading Information: The U.S. Department of Education's Early Intervention Child Outcomes Evaluation
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Rosenberg, Steven A.; Elbaum, Batya; Rosenberg, Cordelia Robinson; Kellar-Guenther, Yvonne; McManus, Beth M. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2018
It is a matter of concern when large, federally funded programs are evaluated using designs that produce misleading information. In this article, we discuss problems associated with an evaluation design that was adopted by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) to document the performance of a major early…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Developmental Delays, Program Evaluation, Special Education
Night Awakening in Infancy: Developmental Stability and Longitudinal Associations with Psychomotor Development
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Mäkelä, Tiina E.; Peltola, Mikko J.; Nieminen, Pirkko; Paavonen, E. Juulia; Saarenpää-Heikkilä, Outi; Paunio, Tiina; Kylliäinen, Anneli – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Fragmented sleep is common in infancy. Although night awakening is known to decrease with age, in some infants night awakening is more persistent and continues into older ages. However, the influence of fragmented sleep on development is poorly known. In the present study, the longitudinal relationship between fragmented sleep and psychomotor…
Descriptors: Infants, Correlation, Psychomotor Skills, Sleep
Early Markers of Language Delay in Children with and without Family Risk for Dyslexia
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Unhjem, Astrid; Eklund, Kenneth; Nergård-Nilssen, Trude – First Language, 2015
This study examined the extent to which receptive and productive vocabulary between ages 12 and 18 months predicted language skills at age 24 months in children born with family risk for dyslexia (FR) and a control group born without that risk. The aim was to identify possible markers of early language delay. The authors monitored vocabulary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dyslexia, Prediction, Delayed Speech
Multivariate Models for Normal and Binary Responses in Intervention Studies
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Pituch, Keenan A.; Whittaker, Tiffany A.; Chang, Wanchen – American Journal of Evaluation, 2016
Use of multivariate analysis (e.g., multivariate analysis of variance) is common when normally distributed outcomes are collected in intervention research. However, when mixed responses--a set of normal and binary outcomes--are collected, standard multivariate analyses are no longer suitable. While mixed responses are often obtained in…
Descriptors: Intervention, Multivariate Analysis, Mixed Methods Research, Models
The Covariation between Parental and Expert Evaluations of Early Language Skills
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Björn, Piia M.; Kakkuri, Irma; Leppänen, Paavo H. T. – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
This study investigated the potential interrelationship between parental (maternal) and expert assessments of the expressive and receptive language skills of 12- to 18-month-old children. The language activities of 27 children were monitored by their mothers (MCDI scale: Lyytinen, 2000. "Varhaisen kommunikaation ja kielen kehityksen…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Toddlers, Expressive Language, Receptive Language