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Slot, Pauline Louise; Bleses, Dorthe; Justice, Laura M.; Markussen-Brown, Justin; Højen, Anders – Early Education and Development, 2018
Structural quality in childcare centers is considered a precondition for process quality, which in turn is related to children's outcomes. However, the evidence on relations between structural and process quality is mixed. Moreover, despite strong theoretical claims, empirical evidence supporting the indirect relation of structural features…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Preschool Education, Teacher Student Relationship, Correlation
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Iverson, Sydney L.; Gartstein, Maria A. – Early Education and Development, 2018
Research Findings: Temperament, often defined in terms of reactive and regulatory tendencies, has been shown to predict child outcomes over and above other risk factors and represents a critical aspect of social-emotional development. The present article is a systematic review of temperament-based interventions targeting caregivers, wherein the…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Intervention, Goodness of Fit, Stress Variables
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Whittaker, Jessica E. V.; Williford, Amanda P.; Carter, Lauren M.; Vitiello, Virginia E.; Hatfield, Bridget E. – Early Education and Development, 2018
Research Findings: This study explored the quality of teacher-child interactions within the context of a newly developed standardized task, Teacher-Child Structured Play Task (TC-SPT). A sample of 146 teachers and 345 children participated. Children who displayed the highest disruptive behaviors within each classroom were selected to participate.…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Interaction, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers
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Lin, Tzu-Jung; Justice, Laura M.; Emery, Alyssa A.; Mashburn, Andrew J.; Pentimonti, Jill M. – Early Education and Development, 2017
Research Findings: This study examined the potential impacts of ongoing participation (twice weekly for 30 weeks) in teacher-child managed whole-group language and literacy instruction on prekindergarten children's social interaction with classmates. Teacher-child managed whole-group instruction that provides children with opportunities to engage…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers, Literacy Education, Curriculum
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Goble, Priscilla; Pianta, Robert C. – Early Education and Development, 2017
Research Findings: This article examines whether time spent in free choice and teacher-directed activity settings within preschool was associated with indicators of school readiness and the extent to which children's learning was associated with the quality of teachers' behavior within these settings. Participants were 325 preschool teachers and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, School Readiness, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children
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Byers, Anthony I.; Cameron, Claire E.; Ko, Michelle; LoCasale-Crouch, Jennifer; Grissmer, David W. – Early Education and Development, 2016
Research Findings: This study examined the contribution of several classroom experience measures (classroom characteristics, teacher characteristics, and teacher-child interactions) to preschoolers' improvement in visuomotor integration. Children (N = 467) ranged in age from 3 to 5 years old and were enrolled in 115 classrooms in 5 U.S. states.…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Psychomotor Skills, Visual Perception