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Korucu, Irem; Litkowski, Ellen; Schmitt, Sara A. – Early Education and Development, 2020
Research Findings: The purpose of the current study was to investigate direct associations between the home literacy environment (HLE) and preschool children's executive function (EF), academic readiness, and social-emotional competence and to explore the indirect association between the HLE and academic and social-emotional outcomes working…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Family Environment, Correlation, Executive Function
Fryer, Roland G., Jr.; Levitt, Steven D.; List, John A.; Samek, Anya – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020
We present the results of a novel early childhood intervention in which disadvantaged 3-4-yearold children were randomized to receive a new preschool and parent education program focused on cognitive and non-cognitive skills (CogX) or to a control group that did not receive preschool education. In addition to a typical academic year (9 month)…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Disadvantaged Youth, Preschool Children, Parent Education
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Ring, Emer; O'Sullivan, Lisha; Hayes, Michael – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
This paper emerged from a national evaluation of concepts of school readiness, which adopted a mixed-methods approach comprising sixty-two interviews with parents, pre-school and kindergarten teachers, fifty-seven child conferences and an online survey distributed to 1,000 pre-school and kindergartens, eliciting a response rate of 29.6% and 23.8%…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Kindergarten, Preschool Children, Student Centered Learning
Ferrara, Angela M.; Lin, Van-Kim; Lambert, Richard G. – Center for Educational Measurement and Evaluation, 2017
The 2016-2017 academic year marks the second year of statewide implementation of the North Carolina K-3 Formative Assessment Process: Kindergarten Entry Assessment (FAPKEA). The assessment, developed and implemented by the Office of Early Learning (OEL) at the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, is a comprehensive formative assessment…
Descriptors: Testing Programs, Program Implementation, Primary Education, Formative Evaluation
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Bayly, Benjamin L.; Bierman, Karen L. – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Findings: Children's readiness to handle the expectations of elementary school depends heavily on their self-regulation skills. Self-regulation includes both cognitive and behavioral elements; however, past studies have typically looked at cognitive and behavioral self-regulation in isolation or as a composite score rather than examining…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children, Teacher Student Relationship, Self Control
Hill, Laura; Prunty, Emmanuel – Public Policy Institute of California, 2022
California is on the cusp of implementing universal preschool--a step that could help level the playing eld for young children. Over the next few years, all four-year-olds will become eligible for Transitional Kindergarten (TK), which has been part of the state's early learning programs since 2012. In this report, the authors examine the…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, State Programs, Equal Education, Access to Education
Kwakye, Isaac; Lacalli, Emma – Washington Student Achievement Council, 2022
Racial disparities are evident across Washington's K-12 education system. This report provides an analysis of Washington K-12 education data and reveals that there are consistent opportunity gaps for students of color. The COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized the need to address racial disparities as communities of color have faced disproportionate…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Racial Differences, School Readiness
Lynch, Kathleen; Lee, Monica; Loeb, Susanna – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic's impact on preschool children's school readiness skills remains understudied. This research investigates Head Start preschool children's early numeracy, literacy, and executive function outcomes during a pandemic-affected school year, using a novel virtual assessment methodology. Study children (N = 336; mean age = 51…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Low Income Groups, Federal Programs
Nguyen, Tutrang; Malone, Lizabeth; Atkins-Burnett, Sally; Larson, Addison; Cannon, Judy – Administration for Children & Families, 2022
The Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) and the American Indian and Alaska Native Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (AIAN FACES) are separate studies done successively over time. One goal for these studies is to provide a national picture of children's readiness for school. In this research brief, the authors use…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Ability, School Readiness, Low Income Students
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Egan, Laura; Tang, Judy H.; Ferraro, David; Erberber, Ebru; Tsokodayi, Yemurai; Stearns, Pat – National Center for Education Statistics, 2022
Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) is an international comparative study designed to measure trends in mathematics and science achievement at grades 4 and 8, as well as to collect information about educational contexts (such as students' schools, teachers, and homes) that may be related to student achievement. TIMSS has…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, International Assessment
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Peters, Sally – Early Childhood Folio, 2018
Aotearoa New Zealand's early childhood curriculum "Te Whariki" includes the explanation that "A weaver weaves in new strands of harakeke or pandanus as their wha¯riki expands…" (Ministry of Education, 2017, inside cover). The joining of new material to the whariki symbolises new learning. This metaphor of a continued weaving…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, School Readiness, Transitional Programs
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McDermott, Paul A.; Rovine, Michael J.; Reyes, Roland S.; Chao, Jessica L.; Scruggs, Richard; Buek, Katharine; Fantuzzo, John W. – Psychology in the Schools, 2018
This study examined the latent developmental patterns for classroom learning behaviors among children from underresourced families. Based on standardized teacher observations, a large sample (N = 2,152) of children was assessed for manifestations of Competence Motivation and Attentional Persistence twice annually through Head Start, kindergarten,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, Kindergarten, Grade 1
Jennings, Jack – Phi Delta Kappan, 2018
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), passed in 2015, succeeded in weakening the least popular parts of the No Child Left Behind act. But, argues Jack Jennings, it's a purely reactive piece of legislation, offering no positive vision for the federal government's role in addressing K-12 education's most urgent problems. ESSA is still young, he…
Descriptors: Government Role, Federal Government, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation
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Hugo, Karen; McNamara, Kelley; Sheldon, Kristin; Moult, Fiona; Lawrence, Kate; Forbes, Cathy; Martin, Natasha; Miller, Melinda G. – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2018
In early childhood education, a long-standing debate exists around issues related to school readiness and the transition to school. This paper describes an action research project implemented by teachers in an urban Australian preschool which gathered multiple stakeholder perspectives about school transition. The project was initiated to support…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers, Urban Schools
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Gullo, Dominic F.; Miller, Michel – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2018
Factors that affect children's school readiness potential are evident from birth. Structural equation modeling was used to test the hypotheses that certain factors related to family risk conditions, the quality of prenatal care, maternal health during pregnancy, and the health status of the child at birth mediate children's readiness for school.…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, School Readiness, Longitudinal Studies, Surveys
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