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Sebastian P. Suggate; Viktoria Karle; Heidrun Stoeger – Child Development, 2025
Fine motor skills (FMS) have been intensely studied in developmental contexts, with little attention to their empirical structure and developmental changes. We tested the factor structure of FMS on 5- to 10 year old children in two cohorts from 2020 to 2023, beginning in kindergarten and grade 2 and followed up 1 year later (n = 240 and 310, 49.7%…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Motor Development, Kindergarten, Grade 1
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Ine H. van Liempd; Ora Oudgenoeg-Paz; Paul P. M. Leseman – Child Development, 2025
Object exploration is considered a driver of motor, cognitive, and social development. However, little is known about how early childhood education and care settings facilitate object exploration. This study examined if children's exploration of objects during free play was facilitated by the use of particular spatial components (floor, tables,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Toddlers, Preschool Children, Object Manipulation
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González, Meliza; Loose, Tianna; Liz, Maite; Pérez, Mónica; Rodríguez-Vinçon, Juan I.; Tomás-Llerena, Clementina; Vásquez-Echeverría, Alejandro – Child Development, 2022
The COVID-19 context has created the most severe disruption to education systems in recent history. Its impact on child development was estimated comparing two cohorts of 4- to 6-year-old Uruguayan children: control (n = 34,355, 48.87% girls) and COVID cohort (n = 30,158, 48.95% girls) assessed between 2018 and 2020 in three waves, by a routinely…
Descriptors: School Readiness, COVID-19, Pandemics, Foreign Countries