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Assessing Young Children's Self-Regulation in School Contexts
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Hutchinson, Lynda R.; Perry, Nancy E.; Shapka, Jenna D. – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2021
Self-regulation describes how individuals assess and adapt to demands within and across environments. Research accumulated over the past quarter century identifies self-regulation as a powerful predictor of children's school success. However, studying young children's self-regulation in school is challenging. Tools that are easy and efficient to…
Descriptors: Self Control, Elementary School Students, Student Evaluation, Measures (Individuals)
Supporting English Language Development of English Language Learners in Virtual Kindergarten: A Parents' Perspective
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Shahbazi, Sara; Salinitri, Geri – Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning, 2022
The researchers of this case study explored English language learner (ELL) parents' experience as they supported their children's English language development in an online (virtual) kindergarten programme. One-on-one semi-structured interviews were used to collect data. Then the researchers used thematic analysis to describe the participants'…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Parent Role, Experience, Second Language Learning
Using Social Knowledge While Interacting at the Classroom Sand Center: Facework and Cohesion Strategies
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Stagg Peterson, Shelley; Altidor-Brooks, Alison – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2018
The goal of this study is to inform teachers' practice by identifying specific language strategies that young children use in their play and suggesting ways that teachers can build on our findings to support students' language and literacy. Deductive analyses of video-recordings of 5-year old children playing at the sand center revealed that…
Descriptors: Young Children, Play, Language Usage, Peer Relationship
The Impacts of COVID-19 on Early Childhood Education: Capturing the Unique Challenges Associated with Remote Teaching and Learning in K-2
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Timmons, Kristy; Cooper, Amanda; Bozek, Emma; Braund, Heather – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2021
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, schools across North America closed to in person learning in March 2020. Since then, it has becoming increasingly clear that physical distancing will need to be prolonged in the 2020/2021 school year and possibly resumed in the future. In response, education ministries shifted teaching and learning online. Research is…
Descriptors: Primary Education, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2
Multimodal Meaning-Making during Play in Two Northern Canadian Indigenous Kindergarten Classrooms
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Stagg Peterson, Shelley; Rajendram, Shakina; Eisazadeh, Nazila – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2019
This research explores young Indigenous children's multimodal meaning-making to carry out social intentions in dramatic and construction/materials play settings. The participants are two teachers and 21 children from two Northern Canadian Indigenous communities. Underpinned by social semiotic theory, the research involves inductive analyses of six…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Foreign Countries, Drama, Play
Understanding Solitude: Young Children's Attitudes and Responses toward Hypothetical Socially Withdrawn Peers
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Coplan, Robert J.; Girardi, Alberta; Findlay, Leanne C.; Frohlick, Sherri L. – Social Development, 2007
The goal of the present study was to explore young children's attitudes and responses to different forms of social withdrawal by eliciting responses to hypothetical vignettes. Participants included 137 children (49 boys, 88 girls) in kindergarten and grade 1 classes (M[subscript age] = 75.94 months, SD = 9.03) in Ottawa, Canada. Parents rated…
Descriptors: Shyness, Young Children, Child Behavior, Foreign Countries