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Okado, Yuko; Bierman, Karen L.; Welsh, Janet A. – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2014
Background: Existing research suggests that parenting stress and demoralization, as well as provision of learning activities at home, significantly affect child school readiness. However, the degree to which these dimensions of parenting uniquely influence child school readiness remains unclear. Objective: This study tested the hypothesis that…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Child Rearing, Parents, Learning Activities
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Dice, Jaime L.; Schwanenflugel, Paula – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
Factors that lead to poor achievement in literacy are evident prior to a child beginning kindergarten. In the present study, we examined the importance of including attention in a model for predicting emergent literacy in prekindergarten and subsequent reading abilities in kindergarten. The sample was 250 children attending public prekindergarten…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Preschool Education, Emergent Literacy, Structural Equation Models
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Saçkes, Mesut – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2014
The purpose of the present study was to explore how often teachers of young children teach science concepts in kindergarten and examine the factors that influence the frequency of science teaching in early years. A theoretical model of the determinants of the frequency of science teaching in kindergarten was developed and tested using a…
Descriptors: Young Children, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Science Instruction
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Willner, Cynthia J.; Gatzke-Kopp, Lisa M.; Bierman, Karen L.; Greenberg, Mark T.; Segalowitz, Sidney J. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
Learning-related behaviors are important for school success. Socioeconomic disadvantage confers risk for less adaptive learning-related behaviors at school entry, yet substantial variability in school readiness exists within socioeconomically disadvantaged populations. Investigation of neurophysiological systems associated with learning-related…
Descriptors: Attention, Learning Processes, Academic Achievement, Neurology