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The Relationship between Early Childhood Teachers' Professional Development in Physical Education and Children's Fundamental Movement Skills
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Cristina Honrubia Montesinos; Pedro Gil Madrona; Luisa Losada Puente; Ali Brian; Linda Saraiva – Early Education and Development, 2024
"Research Findings:" The influence of early childhood teachers' professional development on fundamental movement skills remains unknown in the literature. The purpose of the present study was to examine how early childhood teachers' professional development in physical education (PE) contributes to predicting children's fundamental…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Faculty Development, Physical Education, Psychomotor Skills
Physical Activity in Kindergarten, Fundamental Movement Skills, and Screen Time in Spanish Preschool Children
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Carballo-Fazanes, Aida; Díaz-Pereira, María P.; Fernández-Villarino, María A.; Abelairas-Gómez, Cristian; Rey, Ezequiel – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
Schools have been postulated as ideal environments to encourage physical activity (PA). This study aimed to assess the relationship between PA in school hours, motor competence, and screen time in a sample of Spanish preschool children. Fifty-seven 4-5-year-old preschoolers (n = 32 girls) participated. The Garmin Vivofit wristband was used to…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Psychomotor Skills, Measurement Equipment, Correlation
Developmental Play-Based Assessment in Early Childhood Education: A Systematic Review
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Carlos Montoya-Fernández; Luisa Losada-Puente; Isabel María Gómez-Barreto; Pedro Gil-Madrona – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2024
This systematic review aims to identify the dimensions operationalized in different instruments that assess the developmental domains in Early Childhood Education through play. Research between 2015 and 2021 that dealt with quantitative developmental assessment instruments from 2 to 7 years of age were included. Instruments without psychometric…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Play, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Tool Selection Based on Rigidity in Young Children: A Comparative Approach (Selección de herramientas en función de su rigidez con niños preescolares: un enfoque comparativo)
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Manrique, Héctor M.; Hernández-Gálvez, Yurena; Hernández-Cabrera, Juan; Álvarez, Carlos J. – Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 2022
Fifty-one 23-to-55-month-old-infants faced two apparatuses that required the use of a rigid (box apparatus) or flexible (hose apparatus) stick-like tool to retrieve a toy stuck inside. Before attempting the extraction, however, they had to pick the only one tool (of three) on display that had the appropriate rigidity/flexibility to be effective.…
Descriptors: Infants, Comparative Analysis, Object Manipulation, Toys
Weaknesses and Strengths in Assessing Early Childhood Programmes: An Assessment of an Early Childhood Spanish Trilingual Programme in Two- to Three-Year-Old Children
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Rivas, Sonia; Sobrino, Angel; Peralta, Felisa – Early Child Development and Care, 2010
This article gives an account of the results from an assessment of an early childhood education programme, conducted over the course of two academic years (1999-2000 and 2000-2001), in a centre in northeastern Spain. The purpose of the assessment was to discover how a particular educational programme contributed to the short-term competency levels…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Foreign Countries
Creative Relaxation, Motor Creativity, Self-Concept in a Sample of Children from Early Childhood Education
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Justo, Clemente Franco – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2008
Introduction: Although there have been many definitions and much research has been done in the field of creativity in the last few years, scarce attention has been devoted to studying and investigating the motor area of creativity. In this study we sought to verify the effect that a creative relaxation programme could have on the self-concept…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Quasiexperimental Design, Creativity