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Direct linkNa Young Kong; Stephanie Parks; David P. Lindeman; Eva M. Horn; Nicole Hurless – Exceptionality, 2024
Federal legislation and regulations addressing educational practices have provided clear mandates that educators when designing educational intervention use systematic decision-making processes to identify instructional strategies and methods that are evidence based. This study employed a survey to examine how familiar early interventionist/early…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Early Childhood Education, Special Education, Evidence Based Practice
Richardson, Tanya – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2023
This paper discusses the innovative research method of using body-worn cameras for capturing speech and experiences of 3- to 5-year olds in English early years settings. The strengths and weaknesses will be discussed in this multiple case study approach to capturing the quality of speech from young children (n = 43). Adopting an interactionist…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Classroom Observation Techniques, Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education
Orellana, Pelusa; Navarro, Marianela; Baldwin, Paula – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Lack of validated research tools in Spanish-speaking countries has limited the extent to which educational research can expand. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the exploration of affective factors in reading. The need for research on reading and reading motivation in Latin American countries calls for valid, reliable tools to…
Descriptors: Research Tools, Educational Opportunities, Equal Education, Reading Motivation
Argyropoulou, Eleftheria; Hatira, Kalliopi – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2014
This article introduces an alternative qualitative research tool: metaphor and drawing, as projections of personality features, to explore underlying concepts and values, thoughts and beliefs, fears and hesitations, aspirations and ambitions of the research subjects. These two projective tools are used to explore Greek state kindergarten head…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Research Tools, Qualitative Research
Zacharos, Konstantinos; Koustourakis, Gerasimos; Papadimitriou, Konstantina – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2014
The purpose of this paper is to contribute to development of research tools for observation and analysis of educational practices used by teachers in preschool classrooms. More specifically, we approached the implemented curriculum of mathematics in Greek preschool education. We analysed the recorded data from a week of teaching practices in eight…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Curriculum Implementation, Mathematics, Mathematics Curriculum
Download full textYamaguchi, Ryoko; Hall, Adam – National Center for Education Research, 2017
Between 2002 and 2014, the Institute of Education Sciences (Institute) supported over 400 projects focused on education technology through the National Center for Education Research (NCER) and the National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER). The majority of this work has been funded through Education Technology research topics of NCER…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Educational Research, Research Projects, Public Agencies
Prachagool, Veena; Nuangchalerm, Prasart – Online Submission, 2012
This research aims to investigate how to develop pre-service teachers in early childhood education through employing group-based problem-solving. Participant in this research are 4th year study of pre-service teachers in early childhood education. Forty seven pre-service teachers were selected in the second semester, academic year 2010 by…
Descriptors: Research Tools, Early Childhood Education, Problem Solving, Ethics
Wimmer, Marina C.; Doherty, Martin J. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2011
Ambiguous figures have fascinated researchers for almost 200 years. The physical properties of these figures remain constant, yet two distinct interpretations are possible; these reverse (switch) from one percept to the other. The consensus is that reversal requires complex interaction of perceptual bottom-up and cognitive top-down elements. The…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Validity, Figurative Language, Young Children
Hardin, Belinda J.; Scott-Little, Catherine; Mereoiu, Mariana – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2013
With the increasing number of preschool-age children of Latino heritage entering U.S. schools comes a growing need to accurately determine children's individual needs and identify potential disabilities, beginning with the screening process. Unfortunately, teachers face many challenges when screening English language learners. Often, parents have…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, English Language Learners, Kindergarten, Bilingual Students
Lamsa, Tiina; Ronka, Anna; Poikonen, Pirjo-Liisa; Malinen, Kaisa – Early Child Development and Care, 2012
The aim of this article is to introduce the use of the child diary as a method in daily diary research. By describing the research process and detailing its structure, a child diary, a structured booklet in which children's parents and day-care personnel (N = 54 children) reported their observations, was evaluated. The participants reported the…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Research Tools, Diaries, Child Care
Rihtman, Tanya; Wilson, Brenda N.; Parush, Shula – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
Purpose: The early identification of motor coordination challenges before school age may enable close monitoring of a child's development and perhaps ameliorate some of the social, psychological and behavioral sequela that often accompany unrecognized Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD). The purpose of this study was to develop and assess…
Descriptors: Evidence, Control Groups, Research Tools, Content Validity
Goodfellow, Joy – Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 2008
This article explores the phenomenon of presence and argues that it is a concept worthy of further investigation as a characteristic of adult-child interaction and a key component of quality care. Presence is situated within caring relationships and has a strong affective component that encompasses the heart and soul of professional practice.…
Descriptors: Research Tools, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Interpersonal Relationship
Sommerville, Jessica A.; Hildebrand, Elina A.; Crane, Catharyn C. – Developmental Psychology, 2008
Prior work suggests that active experience affects infants' understanding of simple actions. The present studies compared the impact of active and observational experience on infants' ability to identify the goal of a novel tool-use event. Infants either received active training and practice in using a cane to retrieve an out-of-reach toy or had…
Descriptors: Infants, Experiential Learning, Perception, Research Tools
Hodge, Nick – Disability & Society, 2008
Disability research is conducted within a highly politicised "hotbed" of competing paradigms and principles. New researchers, who want to work within the social model, are soon faced with complex and challenging methodological and philosophical dilemmas. The social model advocates research agendas that are focused on the emancipation and…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Researchers, Disabilities, Research
Kutnick, Peter; Brighi, Antonella; Avgitidou, Sofia; Genta, Maria Luisa; Hannikainen, Maritta; Karlsson-Lohmander, Maelis; Ruiz, Rosario Ortega; Rautamies, Erja; Colwell, Jennifer; Tsalagiorgou, Eleni; Mazzanti, Chiara; Nicoletti, Sandra; Sansavini, Alessandra; Guarini, Annalisa; Romera, Eva; Monks, Claire; Lofqvist, Monica – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2007
This study sought to identify and compare the characteristics of the social pedagogic context of cognitive activities in a sample of early education settings in six European countries (England, Finland, Greece, Italy, Spain and Sweden). Previous research concerning the social context within which cognitive/learning activities take place has…
Descriptors: Young Children, Rating Scales, Foreign Countries, Social Development
