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Peer reviewedTrawick-Smith, Jeffrey – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 1990
Thirty-two preschoolers were observed while they played with realistic play props and nonrealistic play materials in an effort to determine whether realism of play objects was related to overall symbolic object transformation. Boys of all ages and girls under age five demonstrated greater symbolic activity with realistic play props. (SH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Development, Comparative Analysis, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedPollitt, Ernesto; And Others – Child Development, 1982
Reports the results of a multiple regression analysis conducted to determine, in a group of three- to six-year-old children, the magnitude of IQ variance accounted for by physical growth variables and socioeconomic status indicators. (RH)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Intelligence Quotient
Download full textTizard, Jack; Tizard, Barbara – 1967
This study focuses upon some aspects of the social behavior of 2-year-old children being reared in long-stay residential nurseries. These children are compared with working class 2-year-old children being raised in two-parent homes in which the mother is not working full-time and there are no older siblings of preschool age. All children were…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Family Environment
Peer reviewedSternberg, Kathleen J.; And Others – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1991
Preschool Swedish children were observed with their mothers in situations designed to allow assessment of their compliance with maternal demands. Children were more compliant in the task situation at 40 months when they had experienced high quality care at home, when they were older, and when they had experienced less out-of-home care prior to 24…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Comparative Analysis, Compliance (Psychology), Day Care Centers
Lay, Margaret Z.; Meyer, William J. – 1970
To determine if there are discernable effects on children of a group child-care program, the performance of 20 children, 3 to 4 years 10 months of age, who had been cared for in a day-care center from the age of 6 months is compared with that of 20 matched children with no prior day-care program experience. The 40 children participated in…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Care, Child Development, Comparative Analysis
FLEEGE, URBAN H.; AND OTHERS – 1967
IN ORDER TO INVESTIGATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MONTESSORI PRESCHOOL EDUCATION AS COMPARED WITH NON-MONTESSORI PRESCHOOL EDUCATION, PHASE I OF THIS STUDY MATCHED 2 GROUPS, EACH OF 21 PRESCHOOL CHILDREN, ON INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT AND CERTAIN SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS. ONE GROUP ATTENDED A MONTESSORI PRESCHOOL AND THE OTHER A NON-MONTESSORI PRESCHOOL. THE…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Behavior Development, Comparative Analysis
