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The Use of the Piagetian Method of Critical Exploration in Understanding the Cognitive Development of Children with Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties.
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Hill, Joan – Early Child Development and Care, 1993
Investigated the cognitive development of children with emotional and behavioral difficulties (EBDs). Found that children with EBDs showed a similar order of acquisition of conservation as normal children, and the thinking of children with EBDs was characterized by a high degree of uncertainty. (BC)
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Children, Cognitive Development, Conservation (Concept)
Education Evaluation in the Political Arena.
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Marshall, Catherine – Early Child Development and Care, 1984
Reports aspects of a case study of educational politics relating to early childhood education in California. Confirms the complex and political nature of evaluation and lists evaluation dilemmas played out in the policy arena. (RH)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Early Childhood Education, Political Influences, Program Evaluation
On the Problems of Comparing Dyslexics with Other Groups of Readers (and the Quest for the Cognitive Basis of Dyslexia).
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McDougall, Sine J. P.; Ellis, Andrew W. – Early Child Development and Care, 1994
Reviews some findings obtained through comparisons of dyslexic readers with nondyslexic readers matched by chronological or reading age. Notes some of the problems and pitfalls associated with this approach. Explores the potential of other group comparisons when examining sources of reading difficulty, and discusses individual differences within…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Dyslexia, Individual Differences, Reading Difficulties
The Link between Caregiver-Parent Relations and Children's Experiences in Daycare and at Home: What Does the Research Tell Us?
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Shpancer, N. – Early Child Development and Care, 1997
Reviews the literature on implications of caregiver-parent relationships for children in daycare and at home. Finds that choices in day care are not randomly distributed across families; family and daycare characteristics tend to covary. Longitudinal studies, studies in noncenter settings, and studies of the child's influence on parent caregiver…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Caregivers, Child Rearing, Context Effect