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Trauernicht, Mareike; Anders, Yvonne; Oppermann, Elisa; Klusmann, Uta – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2023
Previous research has demonstrated that early childhood educators are particularly affected by burnout symptoms, such as emotional exhaustion. However, only few studies exploring preschool quality consider early childhood educators' burnout symptoms as a predictor. Yet we know from other professions that burnout symptoms often lead to reduced job…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Burnout, Predictor Variables, Learning Activities
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Tompkins, Virginia; Meyer, Katrina; Justice, Laura M. – Early Education and Development, 2021
Research Findings: The purpose of this study was to examine mothers' sophisticated vocabulary while reminiscing with their preschool-aged children, and its relation to children's story comprehension. The study used a cross-lagged panel design in which all assessments were collected twice, 6 months apart. We also compared two methods of examining…
Descriptors: Mothers, Preschool Children, Story Reading, Comprehension
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Wong, Tracy K. Y.; Konishi, Chiaki; Kong, Xiaoxue – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Surprisingly little research has considered whether parent-child activities facilitate social-emotional development and whether these associations differ for boys and girls. To address this gap, this study leveraged the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (2006-2008) to examine the extent to which story reading, storytelling and…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Social Development, Emotional Development, Gender Differences
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Terry, Nicole Patton; Mills, Monique T.; Bingham, Gary E.; Mansour, Souraya; Marencin, Nancy – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2013
Purpose: This study had 4 primary purposes: (a) to describe the oral narrative performance of typically developing African American prekindergarten children with commonly used macro- and microstructure measures; (b) to examine the concurrent and (c) predictive relations between narrative performance, spoken dialect use, vocabulary, and story…
Descriptors: African American Students, Preschool Children, Language Usage, Black Dialects
Sax, Leonard – School Library Journal, 2007
The gender issue is relevant to classroom learning in more ways than one. Increasingly in the United States, young boys are saying that school is stupid and they do not like to read. This phenomenon cuts across all demographic groups: it affects affluent white boys in the suburbs no less than it affects black boys in low-income neighborhoods. In…
Descriptors: Video Games, Predictor Variables, Literature Appreciation, Gender Issues