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Tiffany Yanyi Lee; Lit Wee Sim; Mohamed Syukri Bin Mohamed Anwar; Pierina Cheung; Kerry Lee; Daniel Ansari; Gianluca Esposito; Anne Rifkin-Graboi – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2024
Mastery motivation predicts achievement, but intricacies amongst preschoolers are unclear. In keeping with the Specificity Principle, school-age, and adolescent research demonstrates the importance of considering the "setting conditions" in which mastery motivation is observed. Here, Singaporean 4-year-olds' (N = 63)…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Student Motivation, Numeracy, Mathematics Activities
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Jiao, Xiaoyan; Traverso, Laura; Gai, Xiaosong – Early Education and Development, 2021
Research Findings: Promoting inhibitory control in preschoolers could increase the likelihood of positive developmental trajectories. Nevertheless, to date only a limited number of studies have focused on inhibitory control training, reporting mixed results. To examine the efficacy and the transfer effects of the training on preschoolers, seven…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Child Development, Inhibition
Hassinger-Das, Brenna; Ridge, Katherine; Parker, Amira; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy; Dickinson, David K. – Grantee Submission, 2016
This study moves beyond previous investigations to examine whether an educational intervention combining shared book reading with a vocabulary game increases children's vocabulary knowledge. Four-year-olds (N = 44) were randomly assigned to dyads in either an intervention (shared book reading plus vocabulary review game) or comparison condition…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Vocabulary Skills, Educational Games, Vocabulary Development
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Brenna Hassinger-Das; Katherine Ridge; Amira Parker; Roberta Michnick Golinkoff; Kathy Hirsh-Pasek; David K. Dickinson – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2016
This study moves beyond previous investigations to examine whether an educational intervention combining shared book reading with a vocabulary game increases children's vocabulary knowledge. Four-year-olds (N = 44) were randomly assigned to dyads in either an intervention (shared book reading plus vocabulary review game) or comparison condition…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Vocabulary Skills, Educational Games, Vocabulary Development
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Baker, Doris Luft; Mogna, Vivianne; Rodriguez, Sandra; Farmer, Dylan; Yovanoff, Paul – Journal of International Special Needs Education, 2016
We conducted two studies to examine the effects of an interactive read aloud and vocabulary intervention on the vocabulary knowledge of Spanish-speaking preschoolers living in the U.S. In Study 1, 68 children (n = 34 in the treatment group) and 6 parents in the treatment group received the intervention in Spanish at home, and in Spanish and…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Hispanic American Students, Reading Aloud to Others, Vocabulary