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Vera Maria Silvério do Vale; Maria Filomena da Fonseca Gaspar – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: The Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management (IY-TCM) program is an evidence-based intervention intended to promote the social and emotional skills of children and to reduce the frequency of inappropriate types of behavior. This paper reports on its initial implementation in Portugal. The primary aim of this study is to…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Interpersonal Competence, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems
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Crawford, April; Varghese, Cheryl; Oh, Yoonkyung; Guttentag, Cathy; Zucker, Tricia; Landry, Susan; Cummins, Reese-Anna – Early Education and Development, 2022
This pilot study conducted an initial evaluation of the Center for Improving the Readiness of Children for Learning and Education (CIRCLE) Infant-Toddler Teacher Training program. The program is unique in three ways: 1) use of an online platform with courses that explain social-emotional, language, and literacy development in young children…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Infants, Toddlers, Preschool Teachers
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Yang, Weipeng; Datu, Jesus Alfonso D.; Lin, Xunyi; Lau, Michelle Marie; Li, Hui – Early Education and Development, 2019
Research Findings: This meta-analysis examined 29 (quasi-)experimental studies that involved low-income children ages 3 to 5 who might be subject to risks of academic failure and other negative outcomes. Compared to the controls, children who learned with social-emotional learning (SEL) curricula demonstrated significantly improved…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, At Risk Students, Academic Failure, Social Development
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Fatahi, Negar; Park, Christen; Curby, Timothy W.; Zinsser, Katherine M.; Denham, Susanne A.; Moberg, Sarah; Gordon, Rachel A. – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: This study examined associations between observed emotion-focused teaching practices and preschool children's emotion expression, emotion-related behaviors, and learning behaviors. Four centers located in large midwestern and mid-Atlantic metropolitan areas participated in the study. Of these, one center was a Head Start…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Social Development, Emotional Development, Preschool Children
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Quinn, Margaret F.; Gerde, Hope K.; Bingham, Gary E. – Early Education and Development, 2022
Although writing is a critical foundational skill and teachers' approaches to writing is connected to development, writing instruction in preschool is often limited, infrequent, and narrow. While research has investigated literacy environments of preschool classrooms, often with a focus on reading, less is known about writing environments. Thus,…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Writing Instruction, Student Experience, Preschool Children
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Sarah Surrain; Stephanie M. Curenton; Cecilia Jarquín Tapia – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: Children's oral language skills lay the foundation for later literacy and can be fostered through responsive conversations with teachers. However, such conversations are rare in preschool, particularly between teachers and dual language learners (DLLs), or students who speak a minoritized language at home. DLLs benefit when…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Student Participation
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Bustamante, Andres S.; Hindman, Annemarie H. – Early Education and Development, 2019
This study used the FACES 2009 dataset to examine the possibility of an indirect effect of classroom quality on academic school readiness through teacher-rated approaches to learning in a large nationally representative sample of children served by Head Start. Research Findings: Classroom quality did not directly predict gains in academic school…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Early Intervention, At Risk Students, Educational Quality
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Jason T. Downer; Nicole B. Doyle; Robert C. Pianta; Margaret Burchinal; Samuel Field; Bridget K. Hamre; Jennifer LoCasale-Crouch; Carollee Howes; Karen LaParo; Catherine Scott-Little – Early Education and Development, 2024
A sample of 496 early childhood teachers was assigned randomly in two phases to a series of professional development (PD) interventions. Phase I intervention was a 14-week course on effective teacher-child interactions. Participants were then re-randomized into Phase II intervention, which consisted of individual, interactions-focused coaching.…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Teacher Student Relationship, Literacy Education, Preschool Teachers
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Lange, Alissa A.; Brenneman, Kimberly; Sareh, Narges – Early Education and Development, 2021
Research Findings: This study evaluated the effects of an early mathematics intervention designed to engage preschool children, their teachers, and their families in an interactive mathematics game. Previous research shows that playing this specific type of linear board game results in increased numerical skills and understanding in young children…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Preschool Children, Game Based Learning, Teaching Methods
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Hadley, Elizabeth Burke; Newman, Katherine Mackay; Kim, Eun Sook – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: The present study investigates both the proximal processes and contextual influences on children's oral language development in preschool. We examine whether teacher language practices vary across activity settings and program type, which teacher language practices predict children's oral language skills, and potential…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Context Effect, Oral Language, Language Acquisition
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Liang, Yuan; Zhang, Lijin; Long, Yang; Deng, Qian; Liu, Yujuan – Early Education and Development, 2020
Research Findings: Low-socioeconomic status (SES) (intervention group, n = 31; control group, n = 32) and middle/high-SES (reference group, n = 33) 5-year-old Chinese kindergartners were screened through SES and IQ test. Their number sense was examined over five time points. The pretest was conducted at the beginning of the fall semester, followed…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Mathematics Instruction, Play, Low Income Students
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Iruka, Iheoma U.; Kainz, Kirsten; Kuhn, Laura; Guss, Shannon; Tokarz, Stephanie; Yazejian, Noreen; Niño, Silvia – Early Education and Development, 2023
This study identified patterns of classroom and family experiences and developmental outcomes for young children in segregated early education. This study is based on data from a high-quality early education program serving young children from low-income households in 19 schools across the U.S. The sample included 1,521 children during the…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Culturally Relevant Education, Risk, Racial Composition
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Gardner-Neblett, Nicole; De Marco, Allison; Sexton, Sarah – Early Education and Development, 2021
Developing strong language and communication skills in the first years of life provides young children with a foundation for a number of positive outcomes, including school readiness, early literacy skills, and self-regulation. High quality language supports in early childhood education programs are key to this development. Part of providing these…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Self Efficacy, Early Childhood Education
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Pollard-Durodola, Sharolyn D.; Gonzalez, Jorge E.; Saenz, Laura; Soares, Denise; Davis, Heather S.; Resendez, Nora; Zhu, Leina – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Findings: A social validity measure was used to examine 56 bilingual preschool teachers' perceptions and acceptability of an interactive shared book reading vocabulary intervention implemented in English with Spanish-speaking preschool children (N = 334) in a dual language program model. Social validity outcomes indicated that bilingual…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Correlation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Giménez-Dasí, Marta; Fernández-Sánchez, Marta; Quintanilla, Laura – Early Education and Development, 2015
Research Findings: The goal of this study was to determine the efficacy of an educational intervention program to improve emotion knowledge, emotion regulation, and social competence in 2-year-old Spanish children. This study makes two original contributions because there are no validated education programs for such young children and because it…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Experimental Groups, Self Control, Emotional Development
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