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Christina M. Lincoln – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Two-year, associate degree early childhood education programs play a critical role in preparing future teachers to work in the birth-to-five, early care, and education sector. To achieve academic equity and optimal developmental outcomes for all children, teacher educators must situate their understandings of diversity and equity in critical…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Educator Education, Equal Education
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Failing, Kate; Lombardozzi, C. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
This study compares outcomes of prescriptive and developmental advising models by means of a posttest-only quasi-experimental design. Three outcomes of interest are degree progression, student satisfaction with advising, and average course-pathway cost. Two years of archival records from first-time, full-time degree-seeking students (n = 96)…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Disadvantaged Youth, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Student Satisfaction
Jones, Terrica S. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this action research study was to understand, evaluate, and improve the developmental advising practices used at a Washington State community college. This action research study endeavored to strengthen the developmental advising model originally designed to support the college's marginalized students. Guiding questions for the…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Two Year College Students, Community Colleges
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Platas, Linda M. – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2015
The Mathematical Development Beliefs Survey was developed to measure early childhood teachers' beliefs about mathematics teaching and learning in the preschool classroom. This instrument was designed to measure beliefs concerning (a) age-appropriateness of mathematics instruction, (b) classroom locus of generation of mathematical knowledge…
Descriptors: Surveys, Teacher Attitudes, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers
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McCarthy, Kathrin W.; Duke, Thomas Scott – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2007
The eight early childhood educators who participated in this study were admitted into a 60-credit statewide distance-delivered Associate of Applied Science (AAS) degree program at the University of Alaska. All eight educators were women of Alaska Native ancestry who lived and worked in remote and rural Native communities. Seven of these teachers…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Rural Schools, Geographic Isolation, Early Childhood Education
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Cummins, Lauren – Childhood Education, 2004
To look at practitioners in the field of early childhood education is to look at a kaleidoscope of education, experience, and practice, from practitioners who are beginning in the field to practitioners who have extensive experience and education and have mastered the art of teaching. This kaleidoscope of practitioners brings into the light a…
Descriptors: Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Reflective Teaching, Mentors, Early Childhood Education