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Download full textGerard Dummer; Elwin Savelsbergh; Paul Drijvers – Informatics in Education, 2025
Programmed control systems are ubiquitous in the present-day world. In current educational practice, however, these systems are hardly being addressed, and little is known about children's spontaneous understandings about such systems. Therefore, we explored pupils' understandings prior to instruction in three concrete settings: a car park, an…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 6, Computer Science Education
Jeremy Singer; Sarah Winchell Lenhoff – National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice, 2024
In school choice systems, many families face geographic constraints. Yet, there is limited evidence on the association between school-based transportation and students' school choice, especially in fragmented transportation contexts. Using unique data on Detroit kindergarten students' eligibility and access to school-based transportation, we find…
Descriptors: School Choice, Decision Making, Transportation, School Buses
Direct linkThorshag, Kristina; Holmqvist, Mona – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2019
Technology volition is the will to develop knowledge of, and use, the physical world to design products, processes and systems. The aim of this study was to contribute new knowledge of children's technology volition when they identify, build and improve technical constructions, and how teachers support this learning. Analysis focused on moments…
Descriptors: Play, Preschool Children, Video Technology, Design
Greenberg, Erica; Luetmer, Grace; Chien, Carina; Monarrez, Tomas – Urban Institute, 2020
Since 2014, the District of Columbia has used an annual common application to place new students from prekindergarten for 3-year-olds (PK3) through 12th grade in DC Public Schools (DCPS) and DC public charter schools. Though K-12 students have the right to attend their in-boundary school, this policy does not extend to students in PK3 or PK4…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Selective Admission, Competitive Selection, Admission (School)
Koops, Lisa Huisman – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2014
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to investigate the musical "place" of the family vehicle by describing the music making of nine young children, ages 10 months to 4.5 years, that occurred in vehicles over the course of 9 weeks during which the children were enrolled in a researcher-led early childhood music course. Research…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Case Studies, Preschool Children, Motor Vehicles
Howe, Nina; Recchia, Holly; Porta, Sandra Della; Funamoto, Allyson – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2012
Associations among sibling teaching strategies, learner behavior, age, age gap, gender, and social-cognitive skills (second-order false-belief and interpretive understanding of knowledge) were investigated in 63 sibling dyads in early and middle childhood. Two teaching tasks were introduced to the older sibling teacher: a teacher-directed task…
Descriptors: Siblings, Social Cognition, Motor Vehicles, Teaching Methods
Cassia, Viola Macchi; Picozzi, Marta; Kuefner, Dana; Bricolo, Emanuela; Turati, Chiara – Developmental Science, 2009
The current study compared the development of holistic processing for faces and non-face visual objects by testing for the composite effect for faces and frontal images of cars in 3- to 5-year-old children and adults in a series of four experiments using a two-alternative forced-choice recognition task. Results showed that a composite effect for…
Descriptors: Young Children, Cognitive Processes, Motor Vehicles, Human Body
Gallick, Barbara; Lee, Lisa – Early Childhood Research & Practice, 2010
A class of 3- to 5-year-old children in a child care center in the midwestern United States chose to study a car wash as a group project. This article discusses how the project evolved, describes the three phases of the project, and provides the teachers' reflections on the project. Photos taken during the project and children's sketches are…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Motor Vehicles, Child Care Centers, Young Children
Vissing, Yvonne – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2008
Transportation is an important issue to consider when operating a program for the young. Children must be able to get to school, gym, church, or where the care is being provided, and back home. If the parent provides the ride for their own child, everything is fine. If an organization assumes responsibility for getting children to and from a…
Descriptors: Transportation, Insurance, School Policy, Legal Responsibility
Kalinowski, Michael – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2008
This article describes a program that offers low-income children ages 2 to 12 years a space to grow and learn by providing access to toys, books, and educational materials. It is funded by donations of money, toys, and educational materials. The World Organization for Early Childhood Education (OMEP) Mobile Toy Library started in Paraguay in 2001…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Toys, Foreign Countries, Children
Shutts, Kristin; Keen, Rachel; Spelke, Elizabeth S. – Developmental Science, 2006
Previous research has shown that young children have difficulty searching for a hidden object whose location depends on the position of a partly visible physical barrier. Across four experiments, we tested whether children's search errors are affected by two variables that influence adults' object-directed attention: object boundaries and…
Descriptors: Structural Elements (Construction), Proximity, Object Permanence, Toddlers
Zamani, A. Rahman, Ed.; Calder, Judy, Ed.; Rose, Bobbie, Ed.; Leonard, Victoria, Ed.; Gendell, Mara, Ed. – California Childcare Health Program, 2006
"Child Care Health Connections" is a bimonthly newsletter published by the California Childcare Health Program (CCHP), a community-based program of the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing, Department of Family Health Care Nursing. The goals of the newsletter are to promote and support a healthy and safe environment…
Descriptors: Child Health, Child Care, Young Children, Motor Vehicles
Zamani, Rahman, Ed.; Guralnick, Eva, Ed.; Kunitz, Judith Ed. – California Childcare Health Program, 2003
"Child Care Health Connections" is a bimonthly newsletter published by the California Childcare Health Program (CCHP), a community-based program of the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing, Department of Family Health Care Nursing. The goals of the newsletter are to promote and support a healthy and safe environment…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Health, Child Safety, Young Children
