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Dogan, Özcan; Erdiller Yatmaz, Zeynep B. – Early Child Development and Care, 2018
The purpose of the study is to examine professional identity of Turkish early childhood education teachers working in public and private preschools serving children from three to six years. The participants of the study, 1021 early childhood education teachers, were gathered through simple random sampling. The data for the study were gathered…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Professional Identity, Preschool Teachers
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Venter, Amné; Pienaar, Anita E.; Coetzee, Dané – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
Background: In order to identify Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) as soon as possible, we need validated screening instruments that can be used for the early identification of motor coordination delays. The aim of this study was to establish the suitability of the Little Developmental Coordination Disorder Questionnaire (Little DCDQ) for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Developmental Disabilities, Perceptual Motor Coordination
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Pittorf, Martin L.; Lehmann, Wolfgang; Huckauf, Anke – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
In this study the visual working memory (VWM) and perception speed of 60 children between the ages of three and six years were tested with an age-based, easy-to-handle Matrix Film Battery Test (reliability R?=?0.71). It was thereby affirmed that the VWM is age dependent (correlation coefficient r?=?0.66***) as expected. Furthermore, a significant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Short Term Memory, Visual Perception
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Manz, Patricia H.; Bracaliello, Catherine B.; Pressimone, Vanessa J.; Eisenberg, Rachel A.; Gernhart, Amanda C.; Fu, Qiong; Zuniga, Cesar – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
This quasi-experimental study examined expressive vocabulary outcomes for Parent-Child Home Program (PCHP) toddlers, after one year of home-visiting services. First, this study applied Rasch modelling to establish the construct validity and reliability of a widely used expressive vocabulary measure, as modified for a sample of ethnic and…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Expressive Language, Vocabulary Development, Outcomes of Education
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Hadeed, Julie – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
The aim of this study was to test reliabilities and validations for the Arabic translation of the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale, Revised (ECERS-R) scale [Harms, T., Clifford, R. M., & Cryer, D. (1998). "Early childhood environment rating scale, revised edition." New York: Teachers College Press]. ECERS-R mean scores were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Semitic Languages, Reliability, Validity