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Hover, Ashlee B. – Journal of Research in Education, 2015
Data from a large suburban school district in Tennessee (N = 910) were used to examine the effects of the Kindergarten Readiness program as measured by third grade End of Year (EOY) benchmark performance assessments in reading and math. The groups of students studied included kindergarteners with summer birthdays ("SK"), kindergarteners…
Descriptors: Suburban Schools, Kindergarten, School Readiness, Grade 3
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Bagakis, George; Balaska, Georgia; Komis, Vassilis; Ravanis, Konstantinos – Science Education International, 2006
The present article presents the results obtained from a research on Science Education ideas, practices, and needs of pre-primary teachers in Greece. A questionnaire was administrated to a sample of 130 pre-primary school teachers, and the data was analyzed through Multiple Correspondence Analysis. The results show that there are separate groups…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Questionnaires, Science Instruction
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Rock, Donald A.; Pollack, Judy M.; Weiss, Michael – ETS Research Report Series, 2004
This study attempts to identify different patterns of cognitive growth in kindergarten and first grade associated with selected subpopulations. The results are based upon a nationally representative sample of fall kindergartners who were retested in the spring of their kindergarten year and then again in the fall and spring of their first grade…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Age Differences
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Konold, Timothy R.; Pianta, Robert C. – Applied Developmental Science, 2005
School readiness assessment is a prominent feature of early childhood education. Because the construct of readiness is multifaceted, we examined children's patterns on multiple indicators previously found to be both theoretically and empirically linked to school readiness: social skill, interactions with parents, problem behavior, and performance…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Early Childhood Education, Outcomes of Education, Predictive Validity