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Direct linkSara Conde-Vélez; Manuel Delgado-García; Francisco Javier García-Prieto – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2024
In Early Childhood Education (ECE) stage there are different models of classroom organization and different teaching methodologies. The scientific literature highlights from no planning models to more organized styles. The relationship analysis between these two assumptions is a key. To investigate this starting point, it is proposed an…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Teaching Methods, Interaction, Early Childhood Education
Blenda Luize Chor Rodrigues; Linda L. Hestenes – Early Education and Development, 2025
Research Findings: Outdoor environments have recently become part of the early childhood quality puzzle, which has long been important to trace relationships between children's experiences in child care and their development. However, fewer studies have analyzed the extent to which the quality of these outdoor spaces relates to young children's…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Thinking Skills, Interpersonal Competence, Outdoor Education
Runke Huang; Hao Zheng; Iram Siraj – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2024
The expansion of early childhood education and care (ECEC) programs has generated increasing interest in establishing appropriate structural standards that can optimize child outcomes. To contribute to this discourse, this study aims to investigate the characteristics and influencing factors of classroom quality. Ninety-six classrooms (202…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Early Childhood Education, Child Care
Nasiopoulou, Panagiota; Mellgren, Elisabeth; Sheridan, Sonja; Williams, Pia – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2023
This article aims to explore the conditions for children's language and literacy learning in 153 Swedish preschools with children one to five years. The Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (ECERS-3) is used to evaluate preschool quality, focusing on the subscale of Language and literacy activities. The study draws on Bronfenbrenner's…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Early Childhood Education
Nobre, Juliana Nogueira Pontes; Morais, Rosane Luzia De Souza; Viegas, Ângela Alves; Fernandes, Amanda Cristina; Scheidt Figueiredo, Pedro Henrique; Costa, Henrique Silveira; Peixoto, Marco Fabrício Dias; de Alcântara, Marcus Alessandro; Mendonça, Vanessa Amaral; Lacerda, Ana Cristina Rodrigues – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2023
Background: Preschool is a crucial period for developing motor skills. Objective: This study evaluated factors associated with motor competence in preschoolers from a Brazilian urban area. Methods: A total of 211 preschoolers (51.2% girls and 48.8% boys) were evaluated. Body mass index was calculated; the Brazilian Economic Research Criterion, the…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Preschool Children, Foreign Countries, Urban Schools
Tasha R. Boozer Hines – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Statistics show that if a child is a low reader at the end of first grade, they are more likely to be a low reader by the end of fourth grade. The United States has enacted multiple educational initiatives to combat shortfalls that many children demonstrate in literacy, but the number of children reading on grade level in the elementary grades are…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Environment, Academic Achievement, Literacy
Naesby, Torben; Sperling, Lena Lindbjerg – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2023
Within the research field quality in preschool, interactions between staff and children are widely recognised as the single most important factor. Hence, preschool teachers play an important role in underpinning children's well-being, learning and development. However, prior research into preschool teachers' educational level and other…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers, Foreign Countries, Teacher Student Relationship
Yaya-Bryson, Dilara; Scott-Little, Catherine; Akman, Berrin; Cassidy, Deborah J. – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2020
This study examined the quality of early childhood education programs in two different quality rating and improvement systems, one in Turkey and the other in the state of North Carolina in the USA. The early childhood environment rating scale-revised edition" was used to evaluate the quality of early childhood classrooms, and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Educational Quality, Early Childhood Education
Download full textKaçan, Maide Orçan; Ata, Seda; Karayol, Seda – European Journal of Educational Sciences, 2021
A quality preschool education plays a key role in achieving its objectives. To benefit from this effect of preschool education in a positive way, countries should investigate education systems and the educational methods and practices of other countries so as to understand the problems of education and the factors affecting it. This brings about…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Comparative Education, Educational Quality, Kindergarten
Clifford, Richard M.; Yazejian, Noreen; Jang, Wonkyung; Jigjidsuren, Dari – Teachers College Press, 2021
Early childhood is a crucial stage in a child's life, and aspects of the environment in the physical, social-emotional, cognitive, and health and safety domains all play important roles in shaping children's development during these early years. Having a valid and reliable measure of the quality of these aspects of children's care settings is…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Data Analysis, Data Interpretation, Educational Quality
Veraksa, Nikolay; Airapetyan, Zlata; Krasheninnikov-Khait, Evgenii; Gavrilova, Margarita – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2021
Emotional scaffolding by the teachers of kindergarten children facilitates children's emotional well-being and contributes to their achievements in school. Our aim was to analyze the association between emotional scaffolding, dialectical thinking support and classroom quality. We used the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (ECERS-R),…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Young Children, Early Childhood Education
Lundqvist, Johanna; Larsdotter Bodin, Ulrika – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2021
The Inclusive Classroom Profile (ICP) is a structured observation instrument. It has been developed to support high-quality early childhood inclusion of children with special educational needs and disabilities. The aim of this study is to examine the cultural validity of the instrument in Swedish preschools and to investigate its perceived…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Classroom Observation Techniques, Profiles
Veraksa, A. N.; Gavrilova, M. N.; Pons, F. – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2020
Many studies have been conducted to identify the factors explaining individual differences in children's emotion understanding (capacity to comprehend the nature, causes and consequences of emotions in the self and others). These studies represent a significant advance in our comprehension of the origins of the child's capacity to understand…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Educational Quality, Emotional Development, Knowledge Level
Neitzel, Jennifer; Early, Diane; Sideris, John; LaForrett, Doré; Abel, Michael B.; Soli, Margaret; Davidson, Dawn L.; Haboush-Deloye, Amanda; Hestenes, Linda L.; Jenson, Denise; Johnson, Cindy; Kalas, Jennifer; Mamrak, Angela; Masterson, Marie L.; Mims, Sharon U.; Oya, Patti; Philson, Bobbi; Showalter, Megan; Warner-Richter, Mallory; Kortright Wood, Jill – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2019
The Early Childhood Environment Rating Scales, including the "Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale--Revised" (Harms et al., 2005) and the "Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale, Third Edition" (Harms et al., 2015) are the most widely used observational assessments in early childhood learning environments. The most recent…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality, Scoring
Naesby, Torben – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
The aim of this study is to investigate quality in Danish preschools and to establish whether disadvantaged children benefit from preschool attendance in an inclusive perspective? The conceptual framework of the research project rests on bio-eco-systems theory [Bronfenbrenner & Morris, 2006. "The Bioecological model of human development.…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Educational Quality, Rating Scales, Preschool Education
