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Direct linkVarsamis, Panagiotis; Gkouvatzi, Anastasia; Nanou, Andromachi; Ntarilli, Ioanna; Simeonidou, Magdalini – Journal of the International Association of Special Education, 2020
The purpose of the present study is to examine the properties of a curriculum-based pre-referral screening tool. According to the current Greek preschool curriculum, preschoolers' participation is evaluated across five core axes, namely Play, Routines, Daily Activities, Explorations, and Organized Activities. Teacher evaluations sorted 201…
Descriptors: Preschool Curriculum, Screening Tests, Foreign Countries, Prereferral Intervention
Papadimitriou, Artemis M.; Vlachos, Filippos M. – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
The aim of this study was to examine if specific skills that are developed during preschool years could predict the reading performance in the first and second grade of primary school. Two hundred and eighty-seven children participated in this longitudinal study. At the kindergarten level, phonological awareness (PA), rapid automatised naming,…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Skill Development, Reading Achievement
Venetsanou, Fotini; Kambas, Antonis; Aggeloussis, Nickos; Serbezis, Vasilios; Taxildaris, Kyriakos – Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2007
This study compared the consistency of the Short Form (SF) and the Long Form (LF) of the Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency (BOTMP) in identifying preschool children with motor impairment (MI). One hundred and forty-four Greek preschool children participated (74 males, 70 females; mean age 5y 2mo [SD 5mo], range 4y 6mo-5y 6mo). Although…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Identification, Psychomotor Skills, Foreign Countries
Gender Differences in Musical Aptitude, Rhythmic Ability and Motor Performance in Preschool Children
Pollatou, Elisana; Karadimou, Konstantina; Gerodimos, Vasilios – Early Child Development and Care, 2005
Most of the preschool curricula involve integrated movement activities that combine music, rhythm and locomotor skills. The purpose of the current study was to examine whether there are any differences between boys and girls at the age of five concerning their musical aptitude, rhythmic ability and performance in gross motor skills. Ninety-five…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Motor Development, Gender Differences
Zachopoulou, Evridiki; Makri, Anastasia – Early Child Development and Care, 2005
Movement responses to a stimulus could be either quantitative or qualitative, or could also be the answer to a pre-established problem. This process activates both divergent thinking and critical thinking. Divergent movement ability generates both quantitative and qualitative movement responses to a stimulus. The aim of this study was to examine…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Preschool Children, Elementary School Students, Child Development
Trevlas, Efthimios; Matsouka, Ourania; Zachopoulou, Evridiki – Early Child Development and Care, 2003
Previous research has noted a corresponding relationship between young children's play and divergent thinking ability. This study examined how far fluency and flexibility in movement patterns' production, as indicatory elements of divergent thinking and critical thinking, are related to a variety of psychological elements (physical spontaneity,…
Descriptors: Play, Humor, Creativity, Creative Thinking
Venetsanou, Fotini; Kambas, Antonis – Research in Dance Education, 2004
The purpose of this article is to investigate the effect of an introductory traditional Greek dances programme on the motor proficiency development of pre-school-age children. The sample of this research consisted of 66 students (36 boys and 30 girls) attending public kindergarten in Argolida prefecture (Greece), aged 4-6 years (X = 59.79 plus or…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Physical Activities, Foreign Countries
