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Biorhythms in Children During Free Play
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The Effects of Free Play As an Instructional Tool on the Quality of Improvisation of First, Second, and Third Grade Children
To look at the effect of free play on the musical improvisations of first, second and third grade children, 108 children were randomly assigned to either a control or treatment group. Subjects were tested using a researcher-designed instrument to elicit an improvisatory response. The control group …
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THE DIFFERENCE IN PHYSICAL ACTIVITY LEVELS AND ATTENTION IN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN BEFORE AND AFTER FREE PLAY RECESS AND STRUCTURED PLAY RECESS
… different recess conditions on separate days: free play, structured play and a control (non-active) condition. Physical activity levels were measured in preschool children (N = 22) during three, 30-minute recess conditions; control, structured play recess, and free play recess. Children wore …
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A Comparative Study of the Perceptions of Elementary School Administrators, Teachers, and Students Regarding recess and Free Play in the Public School.
… have severely limited or eliminated recess and free-play opportunities is on the rise across the nation. School officials cite the increasing levels of state and federal pressure to perform on standardized tests as the primary reason for this shift away from the playground. The threat of …
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A Comparison Between Habitual Pitch and Optimum Pitch in Preschool-Aged Children
… was different across structured speech tasks and free play and to determine if the HP across the same tasks differed from optimum pitch (OP) produced by these children. HP measurements were performed on ten normally developing preschool-aged children (2.6 to 6 years), without a history of speech, …
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Effects of Academic and Non-academic Instructional Approaches on Preschool ELLs' English Language Development
… during teacher-structured (academic) or free play (non-academic) activities. In addition, the researcher investigated the perceptions of preschool teachers and parents of bilingual preschool children regarding the effects of academic and non-academic instructional approaches on student …
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The impact of social competence between physical activity and motor performance
… predictors of PA (p<.05) except with SES on free play activity, making MP not significant. Lower MP increased the odds of low total PA and organized sport participation but not for free play activities (OR~1). Higher SC reduced the risk of low participation in all PA measures. Conclusions: SC …
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Preschool Teachers' Interventions in Children's Play (Beliefs, Ideology)
… teachers' intervention during children's free play. A Weberian sociological framework was used to examine (1) what happens when teachers intervene into children's play, (2) teachers' beliefs and thus their decisions about play, and (3) the relationship between these issues. Three …
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Η ΟΡΓΑΝΩΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΚΠΑΙΔΕΥΤΙΚΗΣ ΔΙΑΔΙΚΑΣΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ Η ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΗ ΣΥΜΠΕΡΙΦΟΡΑ ΠΑΙΔΙΩΝ ΠΡΟΣΧΟΛΙΚΗΣ ΗΛΙΚΙΑΣ
… OUTSIDE CLASSROOM SETTINGS, I.E. IN OUTDOOR FREE-PLAY SESSION. TWO GROUPS OF TWENTY CHILDREN EACH, ATTENDING THE ABOVE CLASSROOMS WERE OBSERVED FOR TEN MINUTES AT THREE POINTS OF A SCHOOL-YEAR OBSERVATION TOOK PLACE DURING THE OUTDOOR FREE-PLAY SESSIONS AND IT WAS TYPE-RECORDED. A …
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Maternal Sensitivity, Maternal Mind-mindedness, and Infant Socioemotional Functioning: An Examination of Concurrent Associations
… functioning. Mind-mindedness was assessed during free play and teaching interactions during the home visit. Sensitivity at home was positively associated with mind-mindedness during a free play interaction, but not during a teaching interaction. Neither sensitivity nor mind-mindedness was …
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Creativity differences between open-ended and well-defined tasks in a virtual environment
… tasks diminish creative performance in a free-play task. (2) the presence of explicit instructions have no significant influence on the creativity score of the following free-play tasks. And (3) Among variables like the level of skill/experience, interest, and material used in Minecraft, …
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Executive Function and Parenting Among Latinx Caregivers of Young Children
… more negative parenting behaviors during free play, while poorer setshifting predicted more anger during free play. Intrusiveness during free play was not significantly predicted by EF. Finally, relations were tested between EF and parenting during a task designed to be frustrating for the …
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Maternal nonverbal behaviours and infant gaze during triadic play with toys at 5 and 12 months
… of maternal and infant nonverbal behaviours in play. The present study was designed to examine nonverbal communicative behaviours in mother-infant interactions, and investigate how mothers adjust their behaviours to the developmental level of their infants and similarly, how infant behaviours …
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Growing Minds: The Relationship Between Parental Attitude about Nature and the Development of Fine and Gross Motor Skills in Children
Adults associate their childhood with playing outdoors, often in natural settings. This type of free play is valuable to child development. Children tend to use outdoor play areas in physically active ways, and time spent outdoors relates positively to increased physical activity in children. …
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A Behavioral Intervention For Child Obesity: Increasing Physical Activity On The Playground Via Reinforcement In A Preschool Classroom
… the physical activity level of children in free play, probably due to the complex nature of free play periods. In addition, activity preference is an important but often neglected aspect of free play since choice complicates the ability to influence physical activity level. The current study …
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An experimental study with college men to determine the effects of teaching method on the ability to learn volleyball skills
… consisting of elements from research versus the ‘free play’ method presents the problem in its varying aspects.</p><p>Both methods have been employed in the classes over a period of years and a committee has been organized to evolve a scientific approach as to content and teaching methods.</p>
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"Da sind gar kein grün" : dyadische Kommunikation sprachentwicklungsgestörter Kinder
… skills of preschool children in different play situations. The aim of my research was to find out the abilities and deficits of specific language impaired (SLI) children in child-to-child communication and especially in role-play compared with their age-matched peers. Most of the children …
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Play Behavior of Korean-American and American Young Children
Children's play behavior during free play in classrooms was observed in order to understand the differences in the play behavior of preschool children with Korean-American and American backgrounds. The subjects were thirty-two Korean-American and thirty-two American children from middle class …
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Relationships between types of teacher intervention and preschool children's play
… types of teacher intervention and children's play patterns in preschool settings. An event sampling observation technique was used to examine the relationship between teachers' interventions and children's play, four play areas, and children's gender. Ten teachers were observed during free …
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