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Aspects of Phonological Performance in Four-Year-Olds
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An Evaluation of a Preschool Program for At-Risk Four-Year-Olds in Suffolk, Virginia, Public Schools
… with the STAR Reading Assessment in grade four. The performance of students who attended the Early Start Preschool Program in Suffolk Public Schools was compared with the performance of students who were eligible to attend but did not attend the program. Two-way ANOVAs with analyses of …
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Reaching for Understanding: Exploring the Potential of Four-Year-Old Children to Understand Works of Art
This study was designed to examine how four-year-old children might be able to respond and interpret works of art. Informed by Jean Piaget's and Lev Vygotsky's theories of cognitive development, and building on Micheal Parsons' and Abigail Housen's theories of aesthetic development, the study …
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Breeding parameters of great cormorants (Phalacrocorax carbo carbo) at mixed species colonies on Prince Edward Island, Canada
… 74 and 19 76 returned there to nest as two- to four-year olds in 19 77 and 19 78. Unmarked individuals with clutch-starts in April were likely greater than four years old as all marked two to four-year olds (with one possible exception) in 19 77 and 1978 had clutch-starts in May and June. …
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Preschool Play Behaviors: The Relationship to Sociometric Status, Divergent Thinking and Classroom Materials
… ability, and classroom materials. Ninety-five four-year-olds were observed during free play time and were administered three sociometric tests and a divergent thinking task. Positive nominations, negative nominations, and play rating scores were correlated with play behaviors. A negative …
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Movement as an indication of musical understanding in preschool children
… changes in a musical whole. Three- and four-year-old children were asked to represent, through movement, their sensitivity to changes in dynamics, timbre, tempi, pitch (register), texture, and articulation. The population was drawn from two classes of three-year-olds and two classes of …
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Improvoing Head Start Children's Emergent Literacy and Phonemic Awareness Through Parent Training
… awareness is focused on children older than five years of age. The research clearly suggests that emergent literacy and phonemic awareness skills are precursors for children to learn to read and that low-income children often lack these skills. However, very little research has focused on emergent …
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Virginia's Foundation Blocks for Early Learning: Interpretation and Implementation by Practitioners
… for Early Learning: Comprehensive Standards for Four-Year-Olds as they relate to theories of Piaget, Vygotsky, and Rogoff. This assessment included play, scaffolded instruction, emergent literacy, and spatial reasoning. The Foundation Blocks were examined to determine how they were interpreted …
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Observations of Emergent Literary Behaviors in a Literacy-Enriched Play Environment: Does Teacher Guidance Make a Difference?
… environmental print, and literacy props. Six four-year olds were exposed to the environment for a half hour daily. During the first week of treatment, three of the subjects received teacher guidance / modeling while they played. These three subjects experienced the literacy-enriched …
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Control of level of challenge and its effect on task persistence: a study of Csikszentmihalyi's concept of flow
… concept of flow was examined in a sample of 81 four-year-olds. Intrinsic motivation to continue playing, measured by the number of attempts to toss a bean bag through a target, was observed in both a choice and an assigned condition, order counterbalanced. In the assigned condition, subjects …
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Providing early childhood education in public schools : perceptions of elementary principals in Indiana
… services for the majority of this country’s four year-old children. This call to action has captured the attention of government officials, school officials, policy developers, and the community alike. The complexities of early childhood education for all four year olds is a tremendous …
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The Longitudinal Effects of Preschool on Rural Iowa Children
… participated in the preschool program for rural, four-year-olds differed significantly from other students of the same age who did not attend any formal early education program. Sixty students were selected for the study; 30 formed the experimental group and 30 formed the control group. The two …
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Examining educators’ attitudes toward trauma-informed care and educators’ secondary traumatic stress
… actively teaching in Pre-Kindergarten (three and four-year-olds) through sixth grade within the state of Texas participated in the study. The study included six public school districts and two Head Start programs. The Attitudes Related to Trauma-Informed Care Scale (ARTIC-45) (Baker et al., 2015; …
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An Analysis of the Impact of Selected Structures of the Virginia Preschool Initiative on PALS Pre-K Program Summary Scores for At-Risk Preschool Students in Virginia
… Initiative is designed to prepare at-risk four-year-olds for success in kindergarten. According to the Virginia Department of Education, "The purpose of the grants is to reduce disparities among young children upon formal school entry and to reduce or eliminate those risk factors that lead …
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Age determination and growth rate of the northern Benguela saddine (Sardinops sagax)
… represented in the sample, including, zero, one year, two years, three years, four years and five year age groups. The one year old age class was the dominant age group. Mean lengths at age were determined for each age group and were as follows: Zero age group had a mean length of 13.8 cm, one …
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Young Children's Understanding of the Relationship Between Conventionality and Communication
… communication task. Results indicate that three-year-old children track consistent labeling of novel objects across different speakers, and infer underlying shared knowledge of object labels across consistent speakers. Further, under supportive conditions, three-year-old children infer that …
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The Relationship of Preschool Variables to Kindergarten Early Literacy Skills
… Pre-K experience. However, only 36% of Alabama’s four-year-olds are served by state-funded Pre-K, highlighting ongoing equity gaps.</p> <p>This research provides insights for educators and policymakers to strengthen early childhood literacy instruction, improve program quality, and expand access. …
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The Affective Tigger : a study on the construction of an emotionally reactive toy
… results from these trials illustrated that three year olds are just beginning to recognize emotions in others, four year olds are in the process of discovering an awareness of 'other', and five year old children are well on their way to developing empathy and other advanced emotional responses. It …
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The Lived Experineces of Parents and Their Perceptions of Preschool in one neighborhood in Eastern Virginia
… Department of Education, approximately 4,172,347 four year olds are eligible to attend publicly funded preschool programs. Of this number, only 1,709,607 of those eligible are enrolled in a publicly funded preschool program (U.S. Department of Education, 2014). Because of a lack of quantitative …
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The journey to Paths to Quality : a case study of two rural Indiana public preschools
… have offered high-quality preschool for several years, Indiana only recently began initiatives that expand high quality preschool. Paths to Quality (PTQ) is the Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) that was selected to assess preschool quality in Indiana. The PTQ initiative was first …
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