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Direct linkChaparro-Moreno, Leydi Johana; Lin, Tzu-Jung; Justice, Laura M.; Mills, Abigail K.; Uanhoro, James O. – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: Conversing abstract concepts boost children's language learning. Despite the numerous studies on the linguistic environment of early childhood education settings (ECE), most of this work disregards contextual factors that may influence abstract conversations and omits characteristics of children's verbal participation in these…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Classroom Communication, Bayesian Statistics, Small Group Instruction
Rhoad-Drogalis, Anna; Justice, Laura M.; Sawyer, Brook E.; O'Connell, Ann A. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2018
Background: Children with developmental language disorders (DLDs) often struggle with classroom behaviour. No study has examined whether positive teacher-child relationships may act as a protective factor for children with DLDs in that these serve to enhance children's important classroom-learning behaviours. Aims: To examine the association…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Special Education, Regression (Statistics), Longitudinal Studies
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
Piasta, Shayne B.; Justice, Laura M.; McGinty, Anita; Mashburn, Andrew; Slocum, Laura – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2015
Background: Recent curriculum studies raise a number of questions concerning teachers' implementation fidelity, including the extent to which fidelity to multiple curriculum components is achieved and measured and the extent to which fidelity serves as a mechanism for impacting children's learning. Objective: Within the context of a language and…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Preschool Evaluation, Fidelity, Supplementary Education
Download full textSchachter, Rachel E.; Spear, Caitlin F.; Piasta, Shayne B.; Justice, Laura M.; Logan, Jessica A. R. – Grantee Submission, 2016
In this study, we investigated how multiple types of knowledge and beliefs, along with holding an early childhood-related degree and teaching experience were linked to amounts of early childhood educators' language and literacy instruction. Quantile regression was used to estimate associations between these variables along a continuum of language…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs
Guo, Ying; Piasta, Shayne B.; Justice, Laura M.; Kaderavek, Joan N. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2010
This study examined the relations among preschool teachers' self-efficacy (n = 67), classroom quality (instructional and emotional support), and children's (n = 328) gains in print awareness and vocabulary knowledge over an academic year in the US. Results indicated that teachers' self-efficacy and classroom quality served as significant and…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Preschool Teachers, Vocabulary Development, Classroom Environment
Pentimonti, Jill M.; Zucker, Tricia A.; Justice, Laura M. – Reading Psychology, 2011
The present study describes preschool read-alouds in terms of the types of texts to which children are exposed. The methods involved analyzing the genre and instructional foci of 426 titles read by 13 teachers throughout an entire academic year. Additionally, associations between teacher characteristics and texts teachers read in their classrooms…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Reading Aloud to Others, Preschool Teachers, Nursery Rhymes
Guo, Ying; Sawyer, Brook E.; Justice, Laura M.; Kaderavek, Joan N. – Journal of Early Intervention, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine the quality of the literacy environment in inclusive early childhood special education (ECSE) classrooms ("N" = 54). The first aim was to describe the quality of the literacy environment in terms of structure (i.e., book materials and print/writing materials) and instruction (i.e., instructional…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Special Education, Educational Quality, Classroom Environment
Cabell, Sonia Q.; Justice, Laura M.; Zucker, Tricia A.; Kilday, Carolyn R. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the predictive validity of teacher report for assessing the emergent literacy skills of preschool-age children. The aims were twofold: (a) to examine predictive relationships between teacher report and direct behavioral assessment, and (b) to examine the extent to which teacher report accurately…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, Preschool Teachers, Emergent Literacy, Preschool Children
