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Ding, Cody; Richardson, Lloyd; Schnell, Thomas – Journal of Educational Research, 2013
Utilizing latent transition analysis and multidimensional scaling growth analysis, the authors studied the emerging developmental trajectories in word literacy (i.e., word-reading competence) of a group of 1,503 kindergarteners. Specifically, 3 hypotheses with respect to growth patterns in word literacy from kindergarten to Grade 2 were examined:…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Literacy, Reading Achievement, Hypothesis Testing
Healy, Jane M. – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2011
Whereas some four year olds could draw a person with five fingers on each hand and a full set of facial features, others could barely hold a pencil. Some sat quietly in a small group, intently listening to and understanding a story, while others wiggled, fidgeted, and couldn't focus their attention. In those days, before the explosion of…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Neuropsychology, Nature Nurture Controversy, Developmental Psychology
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Putnam, Samuel P.; Stifter, Cynthia A. – Infant and Child Development, 2008
Through her theoretical and empirical work, Mary Rothbart has had a profound impact on the scientific understanding of infant and child temperament. This special issue honors her contributions through the presentations of original, contemporary studies relevant to three primary themes in Rothbart's conceptual approach: the expansive scope and…
Descriptors: Personality, Infants, Children, Individual Differences
Rohwer, William D., Jr. – 1971
This essay concerns the development of cognitive and perceptual skills in children from birth to the age of nine. It surveys issues, beliefs, and information about perceptual and cognitive procedures. It discusses the issues of nature-nurture, maturation-learning, continuity-discontinuity, and critical periods. It describes the development of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Developmental Psychology, Early Childhood Education, Elementary School Students
Greenspan, Stanley I.; Wieder, Serena – Zero to Three (J), 2003
This article describes how the "developmental structuralist" theory of emotional development has evolved over 25 years into the developmental-individual difference-relationship (DIR[R]) approach to assessment and intervention. ZERO TO THREE and the Interdisciplinary Council for Developmental and Learning Disorders (ICDL) trace their roots to the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Mental Health, Infants, Individual Differences
Seifert, Kelvin L. – 1995
This paper reviews four studies about the nature of professional thinking among teachers, and its relationship to parents' thinking about children and education. The main question addressed in the literature was when and why individual diversity of views appears more strongly in some individuals, but uniformity appears more strongly in others. The…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Cultural Awareness