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Zhu, Jingjing; Xiao, Bowen; Li, Yan; Xie, Mengyu; Zhang, Lingli – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: The goal of the present study was to examine the moderating role of child effortful control (EC) in the relation between shyness and social-emotional adjustment difficulties among young Chinese children. Participants included 195 children (117 boys, 78 girls, Mage = 4.28 years, SD = 0.31) enrolled in 6 classes attending…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Young Children, Urban Youth
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Gullo, Dominic F. – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
Concentrated pockets of under-resourced neighbourhoods and schools exist in urban areas in which there are overwhelming numbers of children labelled 'at-risk.' Structural equation modelling was used to predict the associations between family social capital in kindergarten and third-grade learning and development outcomes for low-socioeconomic…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
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Stylianides, Andreas J.; Stylianides, Gabriel J. – Urban Education, 2011
Research showed that children's school-entry academic skills are strong predictors of their later achievement, thereby highlighting the importance of children's achievement at kindergarten entry. This article defines a particular type of parental involvement in children's education and uses a representative sample of American urban kindergarteners…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Parent Child Relationship, Kindergarten, Urban Youth
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Lloyd, Jennifer E. V.; Hertzman, Clyde – Journal of Community Psychology, 2010
The authors took a population-based approach to testing how commonly studied neighborhood socioeconomic conditions are associated with the language and cognitive outcomes of residentially stable rural and urban children tracked from kindergarten (ages 5-6) to Grade 4 (ages 9-10). Child-level kindergarten Early Development Instrument (EDI) data…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Rural Urban Differences, Foreign Countries, Urban Youth
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Lo, Ya-yu; Chuang Wang; Haskell, Sherry – Journal of Special Education, 2009
This study investigated the effects of the "Scott Foresman Early Reading Intervention" (ERI) on growth rates in the early literacy skills of urban at-risk kindergarten students. Students participated in one of three groups: treatment-intensive/ strategic, treatment-benchmark, and nontreatment-benchmark. Treatment group students received…
Descriptors: Intervention, Early Reading, Multivariate Analysis, Kindergarten
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Washington, Julie A.; Craig, Holly K. – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2004
Language screenings represent an important tool for early identification of language impairments in young children between 3 and 5 years of age. This investigation examined the utility of a well-established set of assessment measures for screening young African American children. One hundred and ninety-six children participated in the screening.…
Descriptors: Young Children, African American Children, Urban Youth, Language Tests