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Ma, Junqian – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2019
Transition to school is a critical period in child development and has raised great concern among contemporary studies. However, most studies focus on vertical transition and only a few investigate vertical and horizontal transitions as a whole. To bridge the gap, this paper explores how an immigrant Chinese child makes the horizontal transition…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Child Development, Asians, Foreign Countries
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Muro, Joel H.; Stulmaker, Hayley; Rose, Katherine Kensinger – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2012
Understanding the developmental stages of children is crucial for coaches. Equally important is the way adults communicate with children. In his seminal work describing the influence of society and social interactions on the psychosocial development of children, Erikson (1950, 1963) described the developmental crises faced by children at each…
Descriptors: Play, Adolescents, Developmental Tasks, Developmental Stages
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Morris, Darrell – Language Arts, 1981
Argues that there is a developmental relationship between children's performances in reading and writing tasks and describes two diagnostic tasks that teachers can use to assess young children's developing concepts of words in reading and in writing, without interfering with the natural processes of learning to read and write. (HTH)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Development, Developmental Tasks, Elementary Education
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Moore, Richard E. – Journal of Humanistic Education and Development, 1992
Notes that ample evidence exists that standardized tests may not adequately reflect student achievement and may be harmful to the educational process and student development, especially for young children. Presents developmentally appropriate alternatives that are available for use in the classroom and on district and state levels. (Author)
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Tasks, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Education
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Eisenberg, Sheldon; O'Dell, Frank – Elementary School Guidance and Counseling, 1988
Asserts that for healthy development, people need to feel safe and to trust, but that there is danger in the world and there are some who ought not to be trusted. Discusses elementary school counselor's role in helping children decide whom to trust and how they inspire trust in others, thereby helping them make fewer errors in trusting. (NB)
Descriptors: Child Development, Counseling Techniques, Counselor Role, Developmental Tasks
Maley, Donald – Man/Society/Technology, 1975
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Tasks, Elementary Education, Guidelines
Diem, Liselott – 1977
Accompanied by a descriptive text, this illustrated guide to movement education for grades one through six provides drawings and examples of movement exercises using balls, wands, ropes, balance beams, ladders, and boxes. The objective is to stimulate awareness of the body as a wholly integrated being. The picture series offers a selection of…
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Tasks, Elementary Education, Illustrations
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LeRose, Barbara; And Others – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1979
The project is based on a general systems approach. Developmental stage theory is employed as a starting point, and the developmental "minitasks" which act as stair risers from one developmental level to another are carried through with the use of Bloom's cognitive taxonomy. (Author/DLS)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Creative Thinking, Curriculum Development
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. Test Collection. – 1990
Most of the 161 rating scales, observation instruments, and questionnaires in this bibliography are geared to assessing the developmental levels of preschoolers and children. There are, however, some scales to assess adults' and adolescents' development. Both non-handicapped and handicapped populations are represented. Developmental areas assessed…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Child Development, Cognitive Tests, Developmental Disabilities
Ehri, Linnea C. – 1973
In order to verify claims made by Genevan researchers that linguistic production but not comprehension capabilities distinguish seriators from nonseriators, three tasks were administered to children between the ages of four and eight. Subjects were asked to arrange in order objects varying in size, to describe how the objects differed from each…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Children, Developmental Tasks
National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Washington, DC. – 1995
The Workshop on Integrating Federal Statistics on Children provided a forum for assessing strengths and shortcomings of existing and proposed federal statistical data sources for children and families. In particular, these data sources were assessed with respect to their capacity to fill the most pressing information needs of those who formulate,…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Development, Child Health, Children
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Smith, Leslie – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1991
Reports research on teachers' beliefs about children's development. Discusses (1) teachers' estimates of ages at which children succeed on tasks, (2) teachers' ability to engage in task analysis, (3) their view of children's error, and (4) their view of developmental accounts. Concludes that good teachers' beliefs provide an inadequate basis for…
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Stages, Developmental Tasks, Elementary Education
McKeough, Anne M. – 1987
An analysis of children's narrative composition and art revealed concurrent development at both a general structural level and at a fine-grained detail level. A three-part study investigated whether this general cognitive pattern would be maintained across a different range of tasks: literary composition, scientific reasoning, and working memory.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
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Kindler, Anna M. – Visual Arts Research, 1993
Responds to Claire Golumb's research on the cognitive development of young children's ability to create representations of reality using visual arts. Asserts that young children must find acceptable pictorial substitutes when producing representations. (CFR)
Descriptors: Art Appreciation, Art Education, Art Expression, Child Development
Southwest Educational Development Lab., Austin, TX. – 1983
One of a series of documents produced by a nationwide network of early childhood education specialists, teachers, parents, and Head Start staff, the guide describes developmental characteristics of preschool and elementary school students by grade level. Arranged into five curriculum areas, the first presents physical, motor, social, cognitive,…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Curriculum Development
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