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Activity Settings and Daily Routines in Preschool Classrooms: Diverse Experiences in Early Learning Settings for Low-Income Children
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Fuligni, Allison Sidle; Howes, Carollee; Huang, Yiching; Hong, Sandra Soliday; Lara-Cinisomo, Sandraluz – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2012
This paper examines activity settings and daily classroom routines experienced by 3- and 4-year-old low-income children in public center-based preschool programs, private center-based programs, and family child care homes. Two daily routine profiles were identified using a time-sampling coding procedure: a High Free-Choice pattern in which…
Descriptors: Play, School Readiness, Group Activities, Fantasy
Evaluation of an Early Childhood Preschool Program in Rural Bangladesh
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Aboud, Frances E. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2006
A preschool program in rural Bangladesh was evaluated in terms of cognitive and social outcomes of children. The preschools provided a half-day program, 6 days a week, with free play, stories, and instruction in literacy and math. Four hundred children between 4.5 and 6.5 years were assessed, half in preschools and half in villages where there…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Education, School Readiness, Social Development
An Investigation of Preschool Classroom Behavioral Adjustment Problems and Social-Emotional School Readiness Competencies
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Fantuzzo, John W.; Bulotsky-Shearer, Rebecca; Fusco, Rachel A.; McWayne, Christine – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2005
The study examined the unique relationship between multiple dimensions of classroom behavioral adjustment problems and salient social-emotional competencies for urban Head Start children. These relationships were investigated using a hierarchical model that controlled for the variance in social-emotional outcomes attributed to age, gender, and…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Predictor Variables, Play, Preschool Children