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Caylee J. Cook; Steven Howard; Gaia Scerif; Rhian Twine; Kathleen Kahn; Shane Norris; Catherine Draper – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2023
Background: While there is now considerable evidence in support of a relationship between executive function (EF) and academic success, these findings almost uniformly derive from Western and high-income countries. Yet, recent findings from low- to -middle-income countries have suggested that patterns of EF and academic skills differ in these…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Preschool Children, Academic Ability, School Readiness
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Karen L. Bierman; Elizabeth A. Stormshak; Morgan D. Mannweiler; Katherine A. Hails – Grantee Submission, 2023
Parents play a central role in supporting the early learning that positions young children for success when they enter formal schooling. For this reason, efforts to engage families in meaningful collaboration is a long-standing goal of high-quality early childhood education (ECE). Family-school engagement can take multiple forms; in this review we…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Social Emotional Learning, School Readiness, Family Involvement
Charlotte Bailey – UK Department for Education, 2023
The School Admissions Code ('the Code') requires school admission authorities to provide for the admission of all children in the September following their fourth birthday. This is when children usually start school, but a child does not reach compulsory school age until the "prescribed day" following their fifth birthday (or on their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Registration, Preschool Children, School Districts
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Kinkead-Clark, Zoyah – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2021
There has been much debate about the profile of the child who is ready for primary school. Thirty-three teachers from pre-primary and primary schools in Jamaica participated in a series of focus group discussions as part of a discursive approach to understanding children's readiness. Four themes emerged which were guided by the research questions:…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Preschool Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Çökük, Kayahan; Kozikoglu, Ishak – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2021
The aim of this study is to determine school readiness of primary school students in mixed-age classrooms. The sample of this study, using embedded mixed method design, consists of 909 first grade students in primary school and 30 primary school teachers determined by stratified purposeful sampling method. In this study, "Primary School…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Elementary School Students, Mixed Age Grouping, Grade 1
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Suh, Go Woon – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
This study examined the mediated role of children's language in the effects of fathers' and mothers' parenting on children's school readiness. The moderated roles of maternal employment and child sex were also examined. Data were drawn from the Panel Study on Korean Children (PSKC), using a total of 1730 families (male children: 51%). First, in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, School Readiness, Mothers
Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2021
Districts and states are targeting summer break -- the most substantial chunk of out-of-school time in the typical year -- as a prime opportunity to help students make progress with learning left unfinished due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Federal COVID relief funds will allow schools the freedom to offer programs as they never have before. But not…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Elementary School Students, Program Effectiveness, School Schedules
Pamela B. Colbert – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Children who have a deficit in language as they enter school continue to be behind their peers as they progress from grade to grade. During the COVID-19 pandemic, many children were unable to attend school or preschool in person. Children develop language best in face-to-face environments. Previous literature did not include how the pandemic and…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
Jiwon Kim – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this study was to gain insights into how a PreK teacher's beliefs on readiness shaped how she adopted/adapted to a new practice that was intended to provide responsive mathematics education. To explore these issues, I constructed one descriptive case study of a teacher's beliefs and practice based on data from a broader research…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Preschool Education, School Readiness
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Chen Li; Noelle Suntheimer; Drew Bailey; Sharon Wolf – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background/Context: School readiness refers to the foundational skills and behaviors children leverage as they begin kindergarten, including a combination of early academics, executive function (EF), and social-emotional competencies. In both high-income and low- and middle-income countries, these early skills collectively enable children to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Competence, Thinking Skills, School Readiness
Zakharova, Victoria S.; Maydankina, Nataliya Y.; Zakharova, Larisa M. – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2020
The article considers the relationship of physical and cognitive development of children as well as the processes of memory and attention. They determine the readiness of a child for school education. The analysis of existing theories made it possible to single out the conditions for their development. There was conducted a study to check the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Physical Development, Psychomotor Skills, Exercise
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Karsli-Calamak, Elif; Allexsaht-Snider, Martha – Teachers College Record, 2020
Background/Context: Young children's engagement with mathematics is occurring in a context in which school transition and readiness concerns that invoke increased institutional rules and disciplinary practices involving power dynamics are coming into play. These trends made us curious to undertake an in-depth investigation of the different ways…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Preschool Education, Kindergarten, Preschool Children
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Sisson, Jamie Huff; Giovacco-Johnson, Tricia; Harris, Pauline; Stribling, Jodie; Webb-Williams, Jane – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2020
This paper focuses on collaboration between Australian preschool and primary school teachers co-located on same sites, with a view to understanding and strengthening collaboration for supporting continuity of practice across preschool and primary school settings. Based on findings from a narrative inquiry study framed by Freire's notion of…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Professional Identity, Preschool Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
Pitts, Christine M. T.; Kuhfeld, Megan – Phi Delta Kappan, 2020
States have invested heavily in improving early childhood education in hopes of improving student reading and math skills before they enter kindergarten. However, there is limited national data from later than 2010 on children's skills in these areas at kindergarten entry, so it is difficult for educators and policy makers to ascertain whether…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Reading Skills, Kindergarten, Racial Differences
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Nguyen, Tutrang; Reich, Stephanie M.; Jenkins, Jade Marcus; Abedi, Jamal – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2020
This study reports an independent investigation of the psychometric properties of Desired Results Developmental Profile (DRDP), a teacher-rated measure of school readiness for preschool-aged children. In a sample of 2,031 low-income, 3- to 5-year-old children attending Head Start, we tested three measurement models: a higher order one-factor…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Measures (Individuals), Preschool Children, Test Validity
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