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Chen Chen; Nanxi Chen; Jinliang Qin – Early Education and Development, 2024
Physical abuse is one subtype of child abuse and it has been a worldwide public health issue for its detrimental effects on child development, profiles, predictors, and its relation with behavior problems need further exploration, particularly in Chinese children. This study attempts to explore profiles and predictors of physical abuse and to…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Predictor Variables, Student Characteristics, Behavior Problems
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Hu, Bi Ying; Guan, Lin; Li, Yuanhua; Roberts, Sherron Killingsworth; Zhang, Xiaomei – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2022
This investigation of how Chinese preschool teachers use feedback strategies as part of Initiation, Response, and Feedback (IRF) sequences during whole-group science lessons can inform current practice. Using quantitative and qualitative data analysis, this study examined 28 videos of preschool science lessons from three regions representing above…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Feedback (Response), Science Instruction, Teacher Competencies
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Ming Lu; Qianqian Pan; Qiang Guo; Chanjuan Jia; Chunling Liu – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2023
Preschool teachers' attitudes toward preschool inclusive education (PIE) greatly influence their inclusive education practice. However, few instruments in this area with sound psychometric properties are available for Chinese teachers. The current study aims to validate the Multidimensional Attitudes toward Preschool Inclusive Education Scale…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Test Construction, Chinese, Attitude Measures
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Runke Huang; Hao Zheng; Iram Siraj – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2024
The expansion of early childhood education and care (ECEC) programs has generated increasing interest in establishing appropriate structural standards that can optimize child outcomes. To contribute to this discourse, this study aims to investigate the characteristics and influencing factors of classroom quality. Ninety-six classrooms (202…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Early Childhood Education, Child Care
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Xiaoyun Shangguan; Jianfen Wu; Yunpeng Wu; Chen Chen – Early Education and Development, 2024
"Research Findings:" Sustained attention is a fundamental cognitive function for young children's development. We investigated the effects of school-based audiovisual game training with parental involvement on sustained attention (SA) in 5-6-year-old Chinese children. Totally 75 children and their parents participated and were assigned…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, Training, Parent Participation
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Wang, Tao; Li, Mengzhuo; Liu, Shanhuai; Zhang, Xue – Best Evidence in Chinese Education, 2022
The retention of teachers is critical to the development of rural preschool education in China. We conducted a sample survey of 3790 rural kindergarten teachers from 22 counties (or cities) of 10 provinces and examined the effects of work stress and job apathy on the turnover intention of rural preschool teachers using the work stress, job apathy…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Rural Schools, Teacher Persistence, Preschool Teachers
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Gao, Xuexuan; Min, Weifang – Best Evidence in Chinese Education, 2023
In the context of the decline in working-age population and exhaustion of demographic dividend in China, how to increase the supply of labor has become an issue critical to economic development. Optimizing preschool education system and enhancing the accessibility of high-quality and low-cost pre-primary schooling help free married women from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Access to Education, Participation
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Li, Zhenyi; Lei, Wanpeng – Best Evidence in Chinese Education, 2023
Supporting socio-economically disadvantaged students to improve their academic resilience is vital in promoting social mobility and halting intergenerational transmission of poverty. Based on the baseline data 2013-2014 from the China Education Panel Survey (CEPS) database, this paper examined the impact of preschool education experience on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Program Effectiveness, Economically Disadvantaged
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Jie Zhou; Yong Jiang – Early Education and Development, 2025
Research Findings: This study aimed to evaluate the sustainability of the public benefit preschool education service system (PPESS) in China from the perspective of preschool education administrators, principals, and teachers using a newly developed and validated instrument, the "Public-benefit Preschool Education Service System Rating Scale…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Sustainability, Public Education
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Hsueh, Yeh; Liu, Tenglong; Mule', Taylor – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2021
Western play theories and practices have had a dominant role in creating China's current discursive condition for preschool play. They are also essential to current knowledge production about play. However, this dominance tends to be transferred into rural preschools, which have recently mushroomed and demanded play activities. The authors reflect…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Play, Preschool Education, Preschool Children
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Wu, Jianfen; Lin, Wenqi; Ni, Lingjun – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Findings: This study compared the peer interaction patterns in mixed-age and same-age Chinese preschool classrooms using videotaped behavioral observations. A total of 179 children (ages 3-6) from three mixed-age classes and three same-age classes were involved in this study. A total of 170 valid videos were obtained, including 85 videos…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peer Relationship, Interaction, Preschool Children
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Cao, Simin; Dong, Chuanmei; Li, Hui – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
The COVID-19 lockdowns had forced young children to take digital preschooling and their parents to practize digital parenting. This study explored how Chinese parents viewed and mediated early digital use during the lockdowns. A total of 2491 parents were recruited nationally and surveyed online in late 2020. The results indicated that: (1)…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Preschool Education, Educational Technology
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Çakir, Turan – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2021
Preschool education is an education process that prepares children for primary education, provides the training and upbringing conditions in the home and also aims to remove the inequalities in terms of language and society in the early period. The audit is to evaluate learning and all the factors that affect learning and also prepare the…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Audits (Verification), Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
Huan, Chen; Nilnopkoon, Phithack; Klangphahol, Kanreutai; Othakanon, Lerlak – Online Submission, 2023
Background and Aim: Physical activity is an important means to promote the comprehensive and healthy development of children's bodies and minds. The national health strategy and population policy adjustment, the development of kindergartens, and the deterioration of children's physical health have all worked together to bring unprecedented…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Preschool Education, Athletics
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Hu, Bi Ying; Guan, Lin; Ye, Feiwei; Vitiello, Virginia E.; Roberts, Sherron K.; Li, Yuan Hua; Wu, Qiong – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: This study explores how Chinese preschool teachers' enactment of Concept Development (CD) strategies, as measured by the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS), might effectively elicit children's higher-order thinking during whole-group science teaching. Participants included 25 Chinese preschool teachers and 800 young…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers, Teaching Methods
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