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A. González-Moreira; C. Ferreira; J. Vidal – Preventing School Failure, 2025
The transition from early childhood education to primary education is, in many countries, the beginning of compulsory education. This has meant that much of the research on this transition has focused on academic aspects such as literacy or logical-mathematical competence. The lines of research have changed, and in recent years, very diverse…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, Preschool Curriculum, School Readiness
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Rademacher, Annika; Koglin, Ute – Early Child Development and Care, 2019
In recent years, preschooler's self-regulation has been extensively researched. This systematic review deals with the overlaps and differences among the many different terminologies and definitions of self-regulation in childhood and the association with preschooler's social-emotional and behavioural development. A systematic literature search in…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Self Management, Social Development, Emotional Development
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Smith, Nina; Glass, Wykeshia – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2019
Using a nationally representative dataset of young children in the United States (the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study--Birth Cohort), the purpose of this study was to test the associations between teachers' perceptions of preschoolers' (N = 3350) school readiness and actual academic readiness levels, as measured by math and reading assessments.…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers, School Readiness, Academic Ability
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Hammer, David; Melhuish, Edward; Howard, Steven J. – Australian Journal of Education, 2017
Some aspects of child non-cognitive development in pre-school have independently been shown to predict academic outcomes in later primary and early high school. However, the extent to which each aspect uniquely predicts these outcomes remains unclear. It is also unclear as to what mechanisms may predict these aspects of non-cognitive development.…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Behavior Development, Preschool Children
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Guirguis, Ruth; Antigua, Kathy Carolina – Cogent Education, 2017
Current literature and research demonstrates that learning multiple languages allows for young learners to develop higher levels of executive functioning skills. Research also suggests that Dual Language Learners (DLLs) can surpass monolinguals in these executive functioning skills. Yet, there is a dearth of literature that explicitly discusses…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Executive Function, Academic Achievement, Self Management
Alfonso, Vincent C., Ed.; Bracken, Bruce A., Ed.; Nagle, Richard J., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020
"Psychoeducational Assessment of Preschool Children," Fifth Edition, provides academics and school-based practitioners such as psychologists, speech-language pathologists, and social workers with an up-to-date guide to the assessment of young children. Long recognized as the standard text and reference in its field, this comprehensive,…
Descriptors: School Psychology, Educational Assessment, Preschool Children, Psychoeducational Methods
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Okado, Yuko; Haskett, Mary E. – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2015
Background: There is limited knowledge about how positive and negative parenting practices differ across individuals and change over time in parents with substantiated physical abuse history, and how trajectories of these parenting practices affect child adjustment. Objective: The present study examined latent trajectories of positive and negative…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Parenting Styles, Parent Child Relationship, Preschool Children
Ulrey, Gordon – 1980
This paper discusses the impact of emerging developmental skills on preschoolers' test performance in reference to preoperational thinking, behavioral controls, and language skills. It is emphasized that some behaviors that occur during the preschool period may suggest pathology when observed in older children but are normal for preschoolers. A…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Clinical Diagnosis, Cognitive Development, Emotional Development
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Carson, David K.; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1986
Explores the relations between temperament, communicative competence, and humor expression among four- and five-year-old nursery school children. Shows that ratings of communicative competence and various dimensions of temperament account for a significant proportion of the variance in the reported frequency of children's laughter and verbal and…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Development, Emotional Development
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Ashiabi, Godwin S. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2000
Examines the emotional development of preschoolers, including the issues of emotional expression, emotional understanding, regulation of emotions, developmental significance, and the role of the caregiver-child relationship. Finds that caregivers influence the emotional development of children as they model, coach, and respond to children.…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Development, Caregiver Child Relationship, Caregiver Role
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Strayer, Janet – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Investigates children's person-by-situation knowledge of probable causes of emotion in self and in others, and compares this to adults' construals. Shows that children can generate contextual explanations for affective states in self and others that are both shared by other children and adults and selectively related to different kinds of…
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Attribution Theory
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Greenspan, Stanley I. – Children Today, 1981
Presents an integrated clinical approach, based on a developmental, structuralist framework, to classify adaptive and pathological personality organizations and behaviors in infants and preschool children. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Clinical Diagnosis
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Jacobson, Joseph L.; Wille, Diane E. – Child Development, 1986
Investigates the influence of infant-mother attachment patterns on the development of peer interaction between the toddler and preschool periods. Notes that, in an initial encounter with an unfamiliar peer, attachment patterns appear to be related more to the child's attractiveness as an interactive partner than to the child's own active interest…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attachment Behavior, Behavior Development, Emotional Development
Sroufe, L. Alan – 1996
Written for researchers and clinicians, this book integrates key perspectives in order to illuminate common beliefs about core processes of emotional development. The book is divided into three parts. Part 1 discusses the nature of emotional development. Topics covered here include: (1) questions relevant in a developmental assessment of emotions;…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Behavior Development, Cognitive Development