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Tan, Lin; Volling, Brenda L.; Gonzalez, Richard; LaBounty, Jennifer; Rosenberg, Lauren – Child Development, 2022
Emotion understanding develops rapidly in early childhood. Firstborn children (N = 231, 55% girls/45% boys, 86% White, 5% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Latinx, Mage = 29.92 months) were recruited into a longitudinal study from 2004 to 2008 in the United States and administered a series of tasks assessing eight components of young children's emotion…
Descriptors: Child Development, Emotional Development, Siblings, Family Structure
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Sevda Nur Açikgöz; Mutlu Pinar Demirci Güler – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2024
The study aimed to determine science lesson-focused responsibility levels of primary school students in terms of various demographic variables. This study used a quantitative research methodology and a descriptive survey model, one of the general survey models. The research was conducted in three central districts in Kayseri province, Türkiye, in…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Student Responsibility, Elementary School Students, Gender Differences
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Bay, Dondu Neslihan; Seker, Perihan Tugba – World Journal of Education, 2020
This research was carried out to determine the listening skill of the children attending pre-school education institutions and to analyze them according to some socio-demographic variables. The research was carried out in the general survey model, one of the quantitative research methods. The sample of the study was comprised of 429 children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Listening Skills, Preschool Education
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Pham, Cindy; Symeonides, Christos; O'Hely, Martin; Sly, Peter D.; Knibbs, Luke D.; Thomson, Sarah; Vuillermin, Peter; Saffery, Richard; Ponsonby, Anne-Louise – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2022
Mounting evidence finds that early life environmental factors increased the probability of autism spectrum disorder. We estimated prospective associations between early life environmental factors and autism spectrum disorder symptoms in children at the age of 2 years in a population-derived birth cohort, the Barwon Infant Study. Autism spectrum…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Preschool Children, Toddlers
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Tfaily, Rania – Comparative Education Review, 2016
This article examines the relationship between gender, sibship, and education over time in Egypt, focusing on how the number, sex, and birth order configuration of siblings affected boys' and girls' education during 1991-2008, a period characterized by significant social and economic changes in Egypt. This study disaggregates schooling into…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Siblings, Foreign Countries, Birth Order
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Yavich, Roman; Davidovitch, Nitza – International Education Studies, 2020
The purpose of this study is to investigate the attitudes of three influential groups toward homework: parents, teachers and the public. Specifically, attitudes toward reducing and eliminating homework, as well as creating alternatives to conventional homework, are examined. The first hypothesis is that the attitude of teachers and parents toward…
Descriptors: Homework, Teacher Attitudes, Parent Attitudes, Public Opinion
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Allison, Melissa; Campbell, Marilyn – Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2015
The quality of the sibling relationship has an important role in the development of psychosocial skills throughout childhood. While the literature suggests that the significance of sibling relationships is heightened when one sibling has a disability, empirical findings about the quality of these relationships are few and inconsistent. The present…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Mothers, Sibling Relationship, Disabilities
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Karaca, Nezahat Hamiden; Aral, Neriman – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2017
Problem statement: An individual's childhood years are pre-school period years when he/she makes progress in every aspect of development. Before getting to know his inner circle, the child starts to know himself/herself first. People's opinions about the child are highly important as long as these people are close to the child and valuable for…
Descriptors: Demography, Preschool Children, Self Concept, Foreign Countries
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Olcer, Sevinc – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2017
The present study is a descriptive research in the scanning model. In the present study is research conducted to determine five to six-year-old children's knowledge of science content, study group constitutes of 360 children attending preschool educational institutions in Burdur city center and their parents and teachers. In the study, Science…
Descriptors: Young Children, Knowledge Level, Science Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Campione-Barr, Nicole; Greer, Kelly Bassett; Kruse, Anna – Child Development, 2013
Issues of equality and fairness and invasion of the personal domain, 2 previously identified topic areas of adolescent sibling conflict (N. Campione-Barr & J. G. Smetana, 2010), were examined in 145 dyads ("M" [subscript first-born] = 14.97, "SD" = 1.69 years; "M" [subscript second-born] = 12.20,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Sibling Relationship, Siblings, Emotional Adjustment
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Puleo, Connor Morrow; Schmeidler, James; Reichenberg, Abraham; Kolevzon, Alexander; Soorya, Latha V.; Buxbaum, Joseph D.; Silverman, Jeremy M. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2012
De novo events appear more common in female and simplex autism spectrum disorder (ASD) cases and may underlie greater ASD risk in older fathers' offspring. This study examined whether advancing paternal age predicts an increase in simplex (n = 90) versus multiplex ASD cases (n = 587) in 677 participants (340 families). Whether or not controlling…
Descriptors: Autism, Risk, Males, Age Differences
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Baran, Gülen; Erdogan, Serap; Çakmak, Aygen – International Education Studies, 2011
Creativity is defined as a totality of processes and a way of attitude and behavior which exists in every child to a different extent. Every child is creative owing to their nature and their perspective on life. Offering children creative environments, especially during early childhood education, affects their mathematical abilities and supports…
Descriptors: Creativity, Mathematics Skills, Gender Differences, Correlation
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Tanaka, Kyoko; Uchiyama, Tokio; Endo, Fumio – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2011
The manner in which typically developing (TD) children were informed about their sibling's diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) was examined in Japan. Seventy-seven parents, each with a child with ASD and a TD child, participated in a questionnaire survey. From the data obtained, it was revealed that parents informed 66.7% (72/108) TD…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Siblings, Autism, Birth Order
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Adli, Rhonya; Louichi, Ahmed; Tamouh, Nadia – Education Economics, 2010
We examine the impact of sibling size on children's education. The theoretical framework shows an opposite relationship between the number of children within family and their school performance. Empirical works diverge between those corroborating this theory and those leading to ambiguous results such a positive correlation or the absence of any…
Descriptors: Siblings, Academic Achievement, Correlation, Foreign Countries
Onochie, Okeke Chinedu Ifedi – Online Submission, 2010
The females' relatively low participation in higher education is discussed within the Nigerian society in a way that such issues are discursively placed in often contradictory, as well as extremely complicated contexts. Dominant discussions draw on the interplay between gender and students' performance across subjects, as well as on the influences…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Females, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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