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Rose, Elisabeth; Lehrl, Simone; Ebert, Susanne; Weinert, Sabine – Early Education and Development, 2018
Research Findings: This study investigated the long-term interrelations among children's language competencies, their home literacy environment (HLE), and 3 aspects of socioemotional development from ages 3 to 8, controlling for characteristics of the child and family. For this sample of 547 typically developing German children, parents and…
Descriptors: Child Language, Family Literacy, Family Environment, Aggression
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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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Hamerslag, Robert; Oostdam, Ron; Tavecchio, Louis – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2018
For the first time in the Netherlands, the Adjustment Scales for Early Transition in Schooling (ASETS) have been applied to kindergarten and first-grade elementary school. A study was conducted to examine the relation between the different behavioral (phenotypes) and situational dimensions (situtypes) of the ASETS and learning performance on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Readiness, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems
VANCE, BARBARA J. – 1967
FIFTY DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN, RANGING IN AGE FROM 33 TO 56 MONTHS, PARTICIPATED IN A 7-MONTH PRESCHOOL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THEIR LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL SKILLS. THE ILLINOIS TEST OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC ABILITIES, THE PEABODY PICTURE VOCABULARY TEST (FORM A), AND THE VANCE LANGUAGE SKILLS TEST MEASURED THE CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT IN…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Early Experience, Environmental Influences, Experimental Programs
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Randell, Angela C.; Peterson, Candida C. – Social Development, 2009
Preschoolers' theory of mind (ToM) was examined in relation to emotional features of their conflicts with siblings, using mothers as privileged informants. Fifty-four children aged 3 to 5 years and their 54 mothers took part. Children were given 10 standard false belief tasks and a standardized language test. Mothers completed questionnaires,…
Descriptors: Sibling Relationship, Mothers, Conflict, Language Tests
Bruder, Mary Beth – Journal of the Division for Early Childhood, 1984
The paper discusses four studies on the validity of a measure designed to assess prelinguistic communicative behavior. The measure elicits social-communicative behavior through presentation of 10 simple tasks. Both the concurrent and content validity of the elicited tasks were demonstrated through use with infant and toddler-age developmentally…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Infants, Language Tests, Social Development
Jones, Patricia B. – 1988
Data from three subtests (language, mathematics, and social) scales of the Head Start Measures Battery (HSMB) were analyzed using principal components analysis (PCA) and non-metric multidimensional scaling (MDS). The HSMB measures preschool development in language, mathematics, nature and science, perception, reading, and social development. The…
Descriptors: Discriminant Analysis, Factor Analysis, Language Tests, Mathematics Tests
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. Div. of Special Education. – 1987
This guide, written to assist child study teams in New Jersey, reviews legal and other requirements in evaluating students with hearing impairments. Implications of hearing impairment for the evaluation process include its impact on syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic aspects of language; environmental interaction; and social interaction.…
Descriptors: Auditory Tests, Cognitive Style, Cognitive Tests, Educational Diagnosis
Aaronson, May; Phillips, Julie – 1977
The Preschool Preposition Test (PPT), a receptive language test for children ages 3 to 5, is a brief simple gross developmental screening instrument still in research status. For 985 normal subjects the test shows a significant correlation of scores with age. Significant correlations have been obtained between PPT scores and raw scores on the…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Blacks, Child Development, Elementary Education