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Language Abilities and Peer Rejection in Kindergarten: A Mediation Analysis
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van der Wilt, Femke; van der Veen, Chiel; van Kruistum, Claudia; van Oers, Bert – Early Education and Development, 2020
Rejection by peers has devastating effects on children's social-cognitive development. As language difficulties have been found to be one of the underlying causes of peer rejection, the present study focused on the relation between these two variables. Specifically, this study was the first to test a hypothesized model connecting children's level…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Preschool Children, Vocabulary Development, Receptive Language
Musical Play in the Early Years: The Impact of a Professional Development Programme on Teacher Efficacy of Early Years Generalist Teachers
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Nieuwmeijer, Christiane; Marshall, Nigel; van Oers, Bert – Research Papers in Education, 2023
Teacher Efficacy (TE) refers to teachers' confidence in their ability to promote student's learning. Research shows that generalist teachers' TE for music education is generally low, with many teachers associating music education with innate musical talents -- a problem exacerbated by music education programmes that focus on singing or playing…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Effectiveness, Faculty Development
The Effect of Three Interactive Reading Approaches on Language Ability: An Exploratory Study in Early Childhood Education
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van der Wilt, Femke; Boerma, Inouk; van Oers, Bert; van der Veen, Chiel – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2019
Language ability plays a major role in children's future development. In the present study, the effect of three interactive reading approaches on children's language ability was investigated through a pre-posttest design. Participants were N = 73 children (aged 4-6) from three early childhood education classrooms. Classrooms were assigned to one…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Vocabulary Development, Pretests Posttests, Child Development
Implementing Dynamic Assessment of Vocabulary Development as a Trialogical Learning Process: A Practice of Teacher Support in Primary Education Schools
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van der Veen, Chiel; Dobber, Marjolein; van Oers, Bert – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2016
Dynamic Assessment (DA) has received a considerable amount of attention in the educational sciences and beyond. DA combines instruction or feedback with assessment or testing within a single activity. DA has great potential for classroom practices, but has not been implemented in many classrooms yet. In this article, we argue that teacher…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Vocabulary Development, Language Tests, Elementary School Teachers
Educational Innovation between Freedom and Fixation: The Cultural-Political Construction of Innovations in Early Childhood Education in the Netherlands
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van Oers, Bert – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2013
As in many countries, in the Netherlands, governmental policy regulates the decisions of schools and care providers that concern and the control of the quality of education and care. Article 23 of the Dutch Constitution defines a fundamental right of freedom in matters of education within the context of institutions such as schools and other…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Child Development
Educational Dialogues and the Fostering of Pupils' Independence: The Practices of Two Teachers
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Lockhorst, Daan; Wubbels, Theo; van Oers, Bert – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2010
If the purpose of an educational system is to guide pupils towards achieving independence, then certain conditions about the design and conduct of that system must be met. In this paper, those conditions are formulated from a socio-cultural perspective on learning and development. This paper examines the extent to which those conditions were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Role of Education, Teacher Role, Classroom Communication
Schematising Activities as a Means for Encouraging Young Children to Think Abstractly
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van Oers, Bert; Poland, Marielle – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2007
One of the missions of education is to prepare children for complex tasks that occur in their cultural environment. By means of abstracting, the effects of this complexity can be reduced. Recent research and theoretical development show us that young children already seem to be able to think abstractly. The acknowledgement of this potential in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sociocultural Patterns, Cultural Context, Abstract Reasoning
Quality of Diagnostic Teaching Abilities in Early Education.
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van Oers, Bert – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 1999
Analyzed the diagnostic teaching abilities in the domains of literacy and numeracy of second-year teachers in a Dutch primary school. Assessed student's literacy development using standardized tests, and compared results of these tests with teachers' criterion-referenced judgment of their pupils' literacy development. Found teachers' judgments to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Diagnostic Teaching