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Kilia, Maria; Zacharos, Konstantinos; Ravanis, Konstantinos – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2015
Do early childhood education children comprehend photographs as spatial representations and are they able to use them to obtain information about space? Can they identify the location where the shooting was done? Can they use photographs to identify the positions where objects are located? These are the research questions that this article aims to…
Descriptors: Photography, Information Sources, Preschool Children, Early Childhood Education
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Sonnenschein, Susan; Stapleton, Laura M.; Metzger, Shari R. – Journal of Educational Research, 2014
The authors used data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten cohort to examine whether parents' knowledge of their children's reading and mathematics skills varies by academic domain and parents' income group or ethnicity. Of particular interest was how parents' knowledge is moderated by school- or home-based involvement.…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Familiarity, Academic Achievement, Early Childhood Education
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Gatt, Suzanne; Tunnicliffe, Sue Dale; Borg, Kurtsten; Lautier, Katya – Journal of Biological Education, 2007
Fifty Maltese children, 25 in the second year of pre-school (4 years olds) and 25 in the first year of compulsory education (5 years old), were interviewed about their knowledge of plants. Analysis showed that they had a restricted understanding of the term, meaning something small, with a thin stalk, leaves and a flower. Trees, cacti and nettles…
Descriptors: Plants (Botany), Student Attitudes, Knowledge Level, Early Childhood Education