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Wang, Jianjun – Online Submission, 2014
Scientific discoveries indicated the importance of brain growth during the first 5 years of child life. To support early childhood development, California voter passed Proposition 10 in 1998 to collect a 50 cent per pack tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products. Kern County Children and Families Commission (First 5 Kern) receives funding from…
Descriptors: Young Children, Child Development, Counties, Child Health
Blodgett-McDeavitt, Cynthia; Dirkx, John M. – Online Submission, 1995
While transfer of information to practice is a goal of professional development programs for educators, the gap between learning of new information and application to practice continues to be problematic. Synthesizing theoretical viewpoints of innovation adoption and diffusion theory, normative re-education strategies, self-efficacy theory and…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Self Efficacy, Adult Basic Education, Teacher Education Programs