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Download full textRogers, Carolyn Odom – 1976
The purpose of this study is to examine the organization of play space and the effect which this organization has on children's productive and disruptive behavior in an indoor nursery setting. A second purpose was to develop a category system for recording the productive and disruptive behavior of young children in a free play situation. The…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Behavior, Classroom Design, Classroom Observation Techniques
Silvernail, Jean Marie – 1974
Coping is defined as the process by which the child attempts to control, synthesize, and make his world manageable. Coping behaviors found in the literature and observed in five preschool classrooms were behaviorally defined to facilitate their identification and observation by trained adults. An instrument designed for use in observation of these…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Classroom Observation Techniques, Coping
Melsa, Katherine S. – 1992
In a study of the attitudes of early childhood professionals, 63 preschool teachers of children ages 3 through 5 and 20 preschool center directors in Naperville, Illinois were surveyed. Statements in the survey were developed using the guidelines from the National Association for the Education of Young Children concerning developmentally…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Anxiety, Classroom Environment
Brenner, Mark – 1976
This study examined the effects of sex, structure, and social interaction on 18 white middle class children, nine boys and nine girls, attending a daycare center. The children were observed over a 6-week period during a 2 1/2-hour free-play time. Results showed that both sexes equally apportion all types of free-play time behavior, show the same…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cognitive Development, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
Howe, Debra; Bhavnagri, Navaz Peshotan – 1994
This study examined the relationship between the stress factors affecting low-income African-American mothers' child rearing practices and their children's prosocial behavior and peer status. Thirty at-risk preschool children and their single mothers participated in the study. The Home Observation for the Measurement of the Environment for…
Descriptors: Black Mothers, Child Rearing, Family Environment, High Risk Students
PDF pending restorationFoster, William; Gaa, Nancy; Nowicki, Jan; Ross, Venessa – 1997
This action research project implemented and evaluated an intervention for increasing student engagement in learning to improve academic success. The targeted population consisted of students in four separate schools: pre-kindergarten and eighth graders in a large metropolitan area and fifth and eighth graders in a rural community. The lack of…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Change Strategies, Class Activities, Cooperative Learning
