A significant academic achievement gap has existed for many decades between high- and low-income students in America’s schools (Reardon & Portilla, 2016). Of the many solutions proposed to eliminate the poverty gap, early education has shown promising results (Connors, Morris, &…
Play is recognized as a critical public health factor for optimal child development. It is widely known that play has a positive impact across all developmental domains in children. However, the view that play is fundamental to all aspects of children’s development seems to be m…
The current study consisted of two experiments using the teaching interaction procedure to train preschool teachers to deliver antecedent favorable attention on a fixed-time schedule to children identified by the teachers as having a history of current or past significant advers…
Caregivers with a childhood history of abuse and neglect are at a greater risk for the intergenerational transmission of maltreatment due to the reenactment of maladaptive caregiving behaviors learned from their caregivers. Some parents, however, are able to make sense of their …
In contemporary UK preschool, technological resources have become a standard feature of the environment. This has prompted widespread discussion around the appropriateness of technologies in preschools and for some time concerns were raised that technology is socially detrimenta…
Early childhood teachers attend professional development sessions, take college-level courses, or read articles, and will, at some point, be exposed to some concepts found in Vygotsky’s (1986) cultural-historical theory of cognitive development as they are deeply embedded in edu…
The population of English Language Learners (ELLs) in the United States has been growing at an increasingly rapid rate (U. S. Census Bureau, 2010), and nowhere is this growth more evident than in U.S. public schools. As of school year 2010-11, nearly 25% of all students in the C…
The researcher in this study investigated how preschool teachers' beliefs about teaching practice, children, and discipline and behavior management related to the preschool teachers' level of education, type of teaching certification, years of teaching experience, and race. The …
This qualitative study was conducted to acquire a description of low income African American mother's beliefs about play's relationship with cognitive development. African American mothers of preschool children attending a Head Start program in the central region of Florida were…
The ecological model assumes school, community, family, and friends shape child outcomes. Minnesota mandates comprehensive Early Childhood Screening (ECS) for preschool children including vision and hearing, and cognitive, language, motor, growth and speech, with optional screen…
The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the development of children's drawing skills through the use of technology. The research involved five children two girls and three boys, ages three to five years in a preschool center located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Specifically, th…
School psychologists in Israel have recently been mandated to become more involved in the assessment of preschool children. At the present time, no standardized developmental screening test for preschool children exists in Israel. The purpose of this study was to validate and ev…
Research shows that the language Immersion Method, where children are taught entirely in the target language, is among the best ways to learn a second language (Curtain and Haas, 1995). The five year time frame between ages 3-8 is the crucial time to teach young children a secon…
This study examined the factors associated with children's readiness to learn at school in Turkey. Two-hundred-thirty two mother-father dyads reported on their socioeconomic status (SES), parenting beliefs and goals, child rearing practices and their perceptions of their prescho…
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…