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Ming, Kavin; Powell, Tenisha – NHSA Dialog, 2010
Emergent literacy skills are important for children's academic achievement. Many preschool children from low-socioeconomic backgrounds have limited access to experiences that allow them to acquire emergent literacy skills such as letter knowledge, concepts of print, and phonological awareness. This article describes purposeful and age-appropriate…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Disadvantaged, Preschool Children, Emergent Literacy
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Whiteside-Mansell, Leanne; Johnson, Danya; Aitken, Mary M.; Bokony, Patti A.; Conners-Burrow, Nicola; McKelvey, Lorraine – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2010
Much is known about how to provide safe environments for preschool children (3-5 years-of-age); however, many preschool children still experience preventable injuries--particularly children living in poverty. This study examined the use of an assessment tool used to identify children at risk for unintended injury in two large, federally funded…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Safety, Injuries, Disadvantaged Youth
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Beekhoven, S.; Jong, U. De; Hout, H. Van – Educational Studies, 2004
Students in different living situations are the central issue of this study. Large groups of first-year students not only transfer to a new educational system, but also start to live independently in rooms. The questions we answer, in this paper, are whether the students' living situations affect the integration process and how it is related to…
Descriptors: College Students, College Freshmen, Adjustment (to Environment), College Housing
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Cornelius-White, Jeffrey H. D.; Garza, Aida C.; Hoey, Ann T. – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2004
This study examined 122 high academic achieving Mexican American seniors from 7 schools in South Texas. The results found that fathers' education, families' equal use of English and Spanish, family support of students' growth into areas of their own particular interests, and students' openness to experience had the highest correlations with…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Educational Policy, Personality, Educational Attainment
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Hsu, Wen-Kai K.; Huang, Show-Hui S. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2006
The purpose of this article is to discuss determinants of computer self-efficacy from the perspective of participant internal learning motivations and external learning environments. The former consisted of three motivations--interest, trend, and employment--while the latter comprised two environments--home and school. Through an intermediate…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Educational Environment, Computer Uses in Education, Causal Models
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Apiwattanalunggarn, Kunlakarn Lekskul; Luster, Tom – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2005
The purpose of this study was to investigate factors that contribute to individual differences in the school performance of 2nd-grade children born to adolescent mothers. The sample of this study was 90 low-income adolescent mothers and their children. Data were collected from the adolescent mothers and their first-born children, now in 2nd grade,…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Learning Motivation, Family Environment, Child Rearing