NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 3 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Szymanik-Kostrzewska, Anna; Michalska, Paulina; Trempala, Janusz; Spitalniak, Agnieszka – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2022
The results of studies on early competences suggest that the child's delay of gratification (DoG) ability is a major predictor of school readiness (SR). However, there are no direct data or convincing explanations as to how DoG translates into preschool children's readiness to commence school education. Aiming at a better understanding of the…
Descriptors: Delay of Gratification, School Readiness, Predictor Variables, Young Children
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Green, Andy; Green, Francis; Pensiero, Nicola – Comparative Education Review, 2015
This article examines cross-country variations in adult skills inequality and asks why skills in Anglophone countries are so unequal. Drawing on the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's recent Survey of Adult Skills and other surveys, it investigates the differences across countries and country groups in inequality in both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English, Comparative Education, Adult Literacy
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Dabrowska, Ewa; Szczerbinski, Marcin – Journal of Child Language, 2006
57 Polish-speaking children aged from 2;4, to 4;8 and 16 adult controls participated in a nonce-word inflection experiment testing their ability to use the genitive, dative and accusative inflections productively. Results show that this ability develops early: the majority of two-year-olds were already productive with all inflections apart from…
Descriptors: Polish, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Adults