The study was designed to investigate the effects of foreign domestic servants in the caregiving role among two groups of Kuwaiti families. First, Kuwaiti families studying in the United States and second, Kuwaiti families studying at the University of Kuwait, in Kuwait, or thei…
A preschool intervention program will increase the gain scores of at-risk treated students to a higher level than the gain scores of untreated control students on achievement test scores. The Federally funded program investigated continued over a ten month school year administer…
Intended to provide concrete ways for parents to help children become readers and writers, this Spanish-language, easy-to-read, illustrated booklet uses the everyday routines that parents follow with their children--bathing and dressing, eating, shopping, doing household chores-…
Cette recherche se déroule dans deux villages sénégalais en périphérie de Dakar, N'Gor et Yoff, auprès de représentants de l'ethnie Lébou—des mères et des enfants. Elle permet d'identifier des savoirs acquis par l'enfant Lébou de six ans, durant son enfance, au sein de sa sociét…
Preschools in Saudi Arabia have been around and continuously growing and improving for more than 40 years. These programs, however, still collectively suffer from the lack of utilization of classroom assessments to support learning and help teachers make decisions about curricul…
This study aimed to investigate the attitudes, knowledge and reported practices of Kuwaiti kindergarten teachers regarding computer use in the classroom. The study was completed using a mixed methods research design whereby both quantitative and qualitative data was collected an…
The Ages and Stages Questionnaires: Social-Emotional (ASQ:SE), a parent-completed screening instrument, was translated and studied for use in Malaysia to identify young children for social-emotional problems. Psychometric properties such as content validity, internal consistency…
This study examined the views of African refugee parents regarding the National Association for the Education of Young Children's (NAEYC) construct of developmentally appropriate practices (DAP) in early childhood education. Despite its wide acceptance and implementation, DAP re…
The primary objective of this study is to examine Turkish prospective early childhood education teachers' attitudes toward the teaching profession and how those attitudes relate to their personality characteristics. The theoretical background for this research derives from both …
In the period between sole use of single words and majority use of multiword utterances children use several facilitating factors to reach the eventual goal of majority use of multiword utterances. They use utterance lengthening techniques that are not yet mature multiword utter…
Children begin learning at birth and efforts to prepare children for school success should also begin early. Thirty percent of all American children arrive at school minimally prepared to learn. According to The National Association of Elementary School Principals (2005), due to…
The purpose of the study was to provide empirical data to describe the quality of early childhood education in Sudan. The study was specifically designed to address the following research questions: (1) To describe Sudanese kindergarten programs' administration, teacher characte…
This inquiry investigated the relationship of selected Head Start teaching staff and newcomer immigrant Bangladeshi parents. A second, equally important, goal was to ascertain Head Start's role in the lives of these same Bangladeshi families. The questions were answered with qua…
This dissertation combines ethnographic and discourse analytic methods in studying conversational and picture-prompted extended discourse productions of Turkish preschool children. The first part characterizes the story-occasioning situations and conversations that surround the …
This study examines the self-reported beliefs and self-reported practices of Turkish in-service early childhood education teachers living in Turkey in order to develop an understanding of the beliefs held by Turkish teachers about appropriate early childhood education practices,…
Muslim parents of preschool and kindergarten children attending U.S. schools completed a questionnaire examining parental perceptions of both developmentally appropriate and traditional approaches to early childhood education. The instrument addressed seven categories: curriculu…
This dissertation investigated the attitudes of Muslim Arab parents in Western Pennsylvania towards American TV programs in general and towards the influence of these programs on their children's morality. The sample was 139 Muslim Arab parents, who had at least one child betwee…
The aim of this study was to determine the attitudes and behaviors of typically developing children toward their peers with special needs in two fully inclusive kindergarten classrooms in Turkey. The following research question guided the study: What types of beliefs and attitud…