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Developing a Research Instrument to Record Pre-School Teachers' Beliefs about Teaching Practices in Natural Sciences
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Draganoudi, Aikaterini; Kaliampos, George; Lavidas, Konstantinos; Ravanis, Konstantinos – South African Journal of Education, 2023
In the last 30 years, 4 distinct theoretical approaches have been described for early childhood science education. The approaches are, empiricist, Piagetian, socio-cognitive and socio-cultural. Drawing on the differences among these approaches regarding the theoretical framework adopted in teaching, the role that is assigned to the teacher during…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Teaching Methods, Natural Sciences, Science Instruction
Teachers' Social Self-Efficacy: Development and Validation of a New Scale
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Vatou, Anastasia; Gregoriadis, Athanasios; Tsigilis, Nikolaos; Grammatikopoulos, Vasilis – Cogent Education, 2022
Teachers' social self-efficacy is an important construct that has not been examined adequately in education yet. Developing a comprehensive understanding of teachers' social self-efficacy requires measuring these beliefs in the social domain of teachers' functioning. This study developed the Teachers' Social Self-Efficacy Scale (TSSES) scale and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Interpersonal Competence, Self Efficacy
Using Rating Scales to Evaluate Quality Early Childhood Education and Care: Reliability Issues
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Rentzou, Konstantina – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2017
Four rating scales for accessing aspects of early childhood education and care programs' quality were employed for the present study. The aim of the study was to examine scales' reliability by using them in one preschool and one infant/toddler classroom during the course of a week. Research results suggest that early childhood education and care…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Child Care Centers, Infants, Preschool Education
Mind What Teachers Say: Kindergarten Teachers' Use of Mental State Language during Picture Story Narration
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Misailidi, Plousia; Papoudi, Despina; Brouzos, Andreas – Early Education and Development, 2013
The study focuses on the mental state language kindergarten teachers use when narrating picture stories. The aims were to examine (a) individual differences in the frequency with which kindergarten teachers use mental state terms, (b) the types of mental state terms (e.g., emotion, desire, belief terms) teachers use most frequently, and (c) the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Processes, Emotional Response, Story Reading
Parental Conceptions of Quality in Greek Early Childhood Education
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Grammatikopoulos, Vasilis; Gregoriadis, Athanasios; Tsigilis, Nikolaos; Zachopoulou, Evridiki – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2014
The aim of the current study was to examine the assessments of parents of the quality of early childhood education (ECE) in Greece. Five hundred and fifty three preschoolers' parents participated in this study providing quality and importance ratings based on the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale Parent Questionnaire (ECERSPQ) for the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Parent Attitudes, Educational Quality
Evaluation of Children's Creativity: Psychometric Properties of Torrance's "Thinking Creatively in Action and Movement" Test
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Zachopoulou, Evridiki; Makri, Anastasia; Pollatou, Elisana – Early Child Development and Care, 2009
The purpose of this study was to examine the test-retest reliability of Torrance's "Thinking Creatively in Action and Movement" (TCAM) test and the relationship between TCAM and the Divergent Movement Ability (DMA) test. The TCAM and DMA tests were used for a sample of 115 children, while the whole experimental procedure included three…
Descriptors: Creativity Tests, Test Reliability, Psychometrics, Preschool Children