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Alaitz Martín-García; Markel Rico-González – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2024
The present article aims to systematically summarize the effects of free-play (FP) on preschool-aged children's physical activity (PA) level, and motor (MC), cognitive (CC), and socioemotional competence evaluated through randomized controlled trial (RCT) design. A systematic review of relevant articles was carried out using two electronic…
Descriptors: Play, Young Children, Physical Activity Level, Psychomotor Skills
Parents' Reflective Functioning and Stress: The Associations with Preschoolers' Social Understanding
Emiddia Longobardi; Mara Morelli; Matilde Brunetti; Stefania Sette; Pietro Spataro; Fiorenzo Laghi – Infant Mental Health Journal: Infancy and Early Childhood, 2025
Social understanding competence develops in sensitive and co-regulating caregiver interactions. Parental reflective functioning (PRF) and parenting stress can affect children's social understanding. This study investigated if children's social understanding was associated with PRF and parenting stress. Parents of 305 Italian children aged from 24…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Stress Variables, Parent Attitudes, Interpersonal Competence
Kenji Kitamura – Early Education and Development, 2024
"Research Findings:" Despite the prevalence of integrating early childhood education (ECE) into formal schooling, there is limited evidence on how school-based ECE affects children compared to other types of ECE, particularly in Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). Therefore, this study examined school-based ECE programs compared…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Program Effectiveness, Urban Areas, Private Schools
Agirregoikoa, Ainhize; Acha, Joana; Barreto-Zarza, Florencia; Arranz-Freijo, Enrique B. – Education Sciences, 2021
Within a bioecological model, research works over the past decades have shown the significant influence of family micro systemic variables on child development. This study is aimed to test the factorial structure of the Haezi-Etxadi Family Assessment Scale (HEFAS-6), designed to detect protective family factors for language and reading development…
Descriptors: Family Influence, Child Development, Young Children, Social Development
Pillinger, Claire; Vardy, Emma J. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2022
Background: Dialogic reading (DR; Whitehurst et al., 1988) is an evidence-based intervention that promotes children's active participation in shared reading (Towson, 2016; Urbani, 2020; WWC, 2007, 2010). Since the development of DR, there has been a proliferation of studies evaluating the conditions and populations with which it is effective.…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Dialogs (Language), Young Children, Literacy
Vermont Agency of Education, 2023
Ready for Kindergarten! Survey (R4K!S) is a readiness assessment of children entering kindergarten about students' knowledge and skills within the first six to ten weeks of school. There are many interpretations of what constitutes "readiness." Vermont's concept of children's readiness is multidimensional; it includes social and…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, School Readiness, Student Evaluation
Gul, Showkeen Bilal Ahmad – Online Submission, 2023
Education is a lifelong endeavour that starts in the womb and lasts until death. It helps the individual to develop full potential by allowing to control the environment of his/her own successful life and living. The foundation of education begins in one's very early childhood and lays the foundation for later stages of educational progression.…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Young Children, Games
Vásquez-Echeverría, Alejandro; Tomás, Clementina; González, Meliza; Rodríguez, Juan I.; Alvarez-Nuñez, Lucía; Liz, Maite; Pérez, Mónica; Rudnitzky, Fanny; Berón, Cristian; Gariboto, Giorgina; Lopez Boo, Florencia – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Measurement of early childhood development at the population level has traditionally been neglected in Latin America. In this context, Uruguay stands out for having two population-based protocols: the Nutrition, Child Development and Health Survey (ENDIS), a home survey, and the School Readiness - Child Development Inventory (INDI). This paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Development, Socioeconomic Status, Sex
Öngören, Sema – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2021
The aim of this research was to examine parental practices aimed at supporting children's school readiness in social, emotional, cognitive, linguistic and self-care domains. A case study design, one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the research. The study group of the research included 25 participants. The participants were…
Descriptors: Parent Role, School Readiness, Child Development, Social Support Groups
Yusra Zaki Aboud; Rommel Alali – Journal of International Students, 2023
This study explores the influence of kindergarten care on the social and cognitive development of Saudi Arabian and international students in early childhood education in Saudi Arabia. A mixed-methods approach assessed the development of 302 children, aged between 5 years and 11 months to 7 years, and their mothers in Saudi Arabia's Eastern…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Tests, Kindergarten, Social Development
OECD Publishing, 2020
The first five years of a child's life is a period of great opportunity, and risk. The cognitive and social-emotional skills that children develop in these early years have long-lasting impacts on their later outcomes throughout schooling and adulthood. The International Early Learning and Child Well-Being Study was designed to help countries…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Young Children, Well Being
Vermont Agency of Education, 2020
Ready for Kindergarten! Survey (R4K!S) is a readiness assessment of children entering kindergarten about students' knowledge and skills within the first six to ten weeks of school. There are many interpretations of what constitutes "readiness." Vermont's concept of children's readiness is multidimensional; it includes social and…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Kindergarten, Young Children, Surveys
Bureekhampun, Suthasini; Techakarnjanakij, Kittikorn; Supavarasuwat, Piya – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
The objectives of the research were to investigate a creative learning promotion activity package for 30 Thai seven-year-old, first-grade school students. Secondly, to design a creative learning promotion activity package, followed by an assessment of the creative learning development process from a series of creative learning promotion…
Descriptors: Young Children, Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Creativity
Vermont Agency of Education, 2021
Ready for Kindergarten! Survey (R4K!S) is a readiness assessment of children entering kindergarten about students' knowledge and skills within the first six to ten weeks of school. There are many interpretations of what constitutes "readiness." Vermont's concept of children's readiness is multidimensional; it includes social and…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, School Readiness, Student Evaluation
Martínez-Sande, Paola Andrea; Pacheco, Kattia Cantillo; Martínez-González, Marina Begoña; Chajin, Leidylizeth Hernandez – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Psychosocial intervention programs are carried out in Latin American communities with socioeconomic disadvantage to improve their quality of life; few evaluations are carried out to measure their effectiveness. The study aimed to determine if intervention processes in vulnerable communities might favor the children's development. An analysis of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Intervention, Cognitive Development