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Rebecca Slotkin; Karen L. Bierman; Brenda S. Heinrichs; Janet A. Welsh – Prevention Science, 2024
The Research-based Developmentally Informed (REDI) program enriched Head Start classrooms with teacher-delivered curriculum components designed to enhance child social-emotional learning and language-literacy skills. Parents received information about the program via backpack express, including weekly handouts about program topics and three DVDs…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Parent Child Relationship, Intervention, Parent Participation
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Preskitt, J.; Johnson, H.; Becker, D.; Ernest, J.; Fifolt, M.; Adams, J.; Strichik, T.; Ross, J.; Sen, B. – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2020
Preschool programs provide opportunities to improve early childhood educational outcomes as well as long-term outcomes, such as improved educational attainment, improved socioeconomic status, and improved health in adulthood. However, recent studies of long-term impacts have shown equivocal results, with some educational gains occurring…
Descriptors: Educational Benefits, Program Effectiveness, Preschool Education, Outcomes of Education
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Peter Freebody – Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2021
The focus of this special edition is students' literacy development over the school years. Drawing on data that includes classroom interactions, analyses of texts, and interviews with students, this edition builds on the seminal treatment of the question of literacy transitions provided in Christie and Derewianka (2008). This paper aims to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Teacher Attitudes, Grade 1, Grade 2
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Karaca, M. Abdulbaki; Toprak, Hasan H. – International Journal of Modern Education Studies, 2022
The aim of this study is to investigate the level of social acceptance of students with typical development in inclusive classes towards individuals with special needs in terms of certain variables. In this study, the screening model was used, which is one of the quantitative research methods. The reason for choosing the screening model in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Grade 6, Grade 7
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Lara Bryfonski – Language Teaching Research, 2024
This study investigated the relationship between task-based teacher training and novice English language teachers' cognitions and implementations of tasks in Honduran bilingual schools. After participating in a four-week training program on task-based language teaching, teachers with little or no prior teaching experience designed task-based…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Educational Principles, Teaching Methods, Teaching Experience
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Marklund, Björn Berg; Taylor, Anna-Sofia Alklind – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2016
The task of integrating games into an educational setting is a demanding one, and integrating games as a harmonious part of a bigger ecosystem of learning requires teachers to orchestrate a myriad of complex organizational resources. Historically, research on digital game-based learning has focused heavily on the coupling between game designs,…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Learner Engagement, Case Studies, Preschool Teachers
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Akcaoglu, Mete; Kale, Ugur – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2016
Engagement in game design tasks can help preservice teachers develop pedagogical and technical skills for teaching and promoting critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Through the design process, preservice teachers not only exercise critical-thinking and problem-solving skills, but also learn about an instructional method to support their…
Descriptors: Games, Educational Games, Computer Games, Preservice Teachers
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Barrouillet, Pierre; Gavens, Nathalie; Vergauwe, Evie; Gaillard, Vinciane; Camos, Valerie – Developmental Psychology, 2009
The time-based resource-sharing model (P. Barrouillet, S. Bernardin, & V. Camos, 2004) assumes that during complex working memory span tasks, attention is frequently and surreptitiously switched from processing to reactivate decaying memory traces before their complete loss. Three experiments involving children from 5 to 14 years of age…
Descriptors: Late Adolescents, Short Term Memory, Children, Experiments
Hutchinson-Harmon, Linda – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2009
The author shares a story about the positive power of nature in the lives of children, particularly those children who are at-risk for school failure. The setting for the story is the Central Child Development Center (CCDC) in Rock Hill, South Carolina, a public preschool with four-year-old kindergarten students (4K) and preschoolers with special…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 8, Child Development Centers, Gardening