Using a Teacher Rating Scale of Language and Literacy Skills with Preschool Children of English-Speaking, Spanish-Speaking, and Bilingual Backgrounds The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between a teacher report measure, the Teacher Rating of Oral Language and Literacy (TROLL; ...
Furthermore, gamification grounded in learning science and developmental psychology theories applied to a traditional executive function measure increased children's task enjoyment while preserving psychometric properties of the Flanker Task. Overall, this feasibility study indicates that gamifi...
Thus, children with low SES appear to use word strategies to make use of information in the linguistic input, similar to peers with higher SES. Participants with limited word knowledge, as defined by performance on a norm-referenced measure, were less accurate on the part-term task than peers...
The reliability analysis, employing Cronbach’s α as the measure, primarily relies on covariance. This analysis entails multiplying the variance of each questionnaire question through the available variance value, resulting in a product of k, as depicted in Eq. (6). $$\:\sum {\sigma _Y^2 ...
The proportion of variation (R2) in obesity prevalence explained in studies that report this measure has varied. For example, the percentage of between–census tract variance explained increased from 77% to 87% when built environment variables were added to a model for BMI composed of demographic...
Children's Engagement Within the Preschool Classroom and Their Development of Self-Regulation This study used an observational measure to examine how individual children's engagement with teachers, peers, and tasks was associated with gains in self-... AP Williford,JE Vick Whittaker,VE Vitiello,.....
According to a new study, preschool boys perform better on tests that measure learning and other important skills when they are in classes that have more girls than boys. This doesn’t seem to apply to girls, though. For preschool girls, the presence or absence of boys does not affect lear...
Being the only preschool in Singapore to infuse the Habits of Mind™ framework into its curriculum, Mulberry Learning is also the first to provide an assessment platform called “The Habits of Mind Assessment Tool (THOMAS)” to measure and analyze the development of these habits in the child....
We adopted a measure of teacher autonomous motivation49 to measure parental motivation, which contained 9 items (α = 0.81). Because this measure had not been used in the rural Ivorian context, we conducted an exploratory factor analysis which yielded a clear 1-factor model with all items...
In recent years, unequal access to high-quality preschool has emerged as a growing public policy concern. Because of data limitations, it is notoriously difficult to measure disparities in access to early learning opportunities across communities and particularly challenging to quantify gaps in access ...