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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"school adjustment"”.
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An Assessment of School Adjustment in Head Start Children
… to create an all encompassing model of school adjustment in a sample of Head Start children (N = 36). Past research examining school adjustment in low-income children has failed to address all of the components of school adjustment while often employing the same reporter (the teacher) …
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Friendship Patterns and School Adjustment in the Mixed-Age Context
… the relationship between friendship status and school adjustment have been studied in same-age classrooms, little is known about friendship patterns and the contribution of friendship status to school adjustment in mixed-age classrooms. The purposes of the present study were to investigate …
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Contextual and Dispositional Influences on Low-Income Children's School Adjustment
… to children's socio-emotional development, school success, and the prevention of future problem behaviors. In response, the current project examined the interaction of parenting style, child temperament, and the quality of the teacher-child relationship in predicting low-income children's …
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Children's Relationships With Peers and Teachers: Assessment, Linkages Between Relationship Systems, and Associations With School Adjustment
… and how these relationships were associated with school adjustment. First, the psychometric properties of a peer nominations and ratings measure of the teacher-child relationship (PNR-TC; Birch, 1997) were evaluated, and the measure demonstrated satisfactory test-retest reliability, convergent …
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Teachers' appraisal of children's school adjustment: its relationship to children's behavioral styles, self-esteem and parents' valuing styles
… teachers' assessment of children's overall school adjustment and children's self-esteem, behavioral styles, and the valuing styles of parents. Subjects were 75 third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade children from middle-class families in the metropolitan Washington, D.C., area who were …
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A Latent Growth Curve Analysis of Peer Difficulties, Self-Perceptions, and Peer Beliefs: Links to Psychological and School Adjustment
… difficulties are predictive of later maladjustment, but the mechanisms by which these stressors may impair healthy development have yet to be identified. Maladaptive cognitive representations of the self and others constitute one set of potential mediators. The objectives of this study …
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Peer Rejection and Children's School Adjustment: A Structural Model of the Mediating Processes of Negative Peer Treatment and Classroom Participation
… the effects of peer rejection on children's school adjustment, via the mediating processes of negative peer treatment and classroom participation. Using data collected from a sample of 378 fourth- and fifth-grade children, a structural model of these mediating pathways was estimated. This …
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Primary to secondary school transfer and adjustment: the role of physical education
… of boys before and after secondary school transfer. The purpose of the study was to determine the significance of boys' attitudes to physical education, motor performance and physical education self-esteem (self-perceptions of performance in physical education) at the age of school …
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The Impact of The 101s: A Guide to Positive Discipline Parent Training: A Case Study of Kindergarteners and Their Parents in Bangkok, Thailand
… of the teacher-child relationship, children's school adjustment and academic achievement in Thai kindergarteners. One hundred and sixty four kindergarteners, one hundred and sixty four parents and twenty kindergarten teachers participated. The parents reported their use of parenting techniques …
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The Impact of The 101s: A Guide to Positive Discipline Teacher Training on Teacher Interaction Practices, Teacher-Child Relationship Quality, School Adjustment, and Academic Outcomes in Kindergarten Classrooms in Bangkok, Thailand
… relationship quality and beneficial school outcomes for young children, it is not clear how Thai children would respond to the kind of interactional and social-emotional practices of American teachers. In this research, teacher training through <em>The 101s: A Guide to Positive …
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The Contribution of Children's Peer Relations to Adjustment in An Ungraded Primary Program
… relationship between peer relations and school adjustment, little is known about the contribution peer relations makes to school adjustment in the mixed-age classroom. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the contributions that peer acceptance, social status, social …
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The California Primary Prevention Project a Therapeutic art and Play Program for Children Grades K-3 with Early or At Risk of School Adjustment Problems and Its Proposed Implemnetation at Nesbit School Belmont, California
… third grade, who are at risk or have early school adjustment problems at Nesbit School in Belmont, California. The State of California offers partial funding to schools interested in implementing a CPPP at their school sites.</p> <p>The concept of primary prevention is introduced and its …
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Teachers' Beliefs About Socializing Children's Emotional Development in Preschool
Preschool teachers acknowledge children's emotional development as important for later schooling or school adjustment. They believe that children should build emotional competence as early as possible. However, emotional competence was most often defined narrowly and in terms of control. Teachers …
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The Perfect Angel Hypothesis: The Effect of Parents' False Perceptions on Children's Adjustment
… their children's temperament on their subsequent school behavior problems. Participants were parents and teachers of 97 kindergarten children in an urban southern community. Both parents and teachers completed questionnaires on children's temperament, while teachers reported on children's school …
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Cyberbullying: The Role Of Family And School
… purpose of this study was to examine family and school variables in relation to different types of perpetration, victimization and witnessing experiences (physical, social, verbal and cyber). Students (n=253) in grades 7 to 8 from two middle schools located in a suburb in southeastern Michigan …
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Readiness and Relationships across the Transition to School: Children’s Experiences and Interactions between Home and School Contexts
Starting primary school is a significant milestone that brings opportunities and challenges for children, their families, and their teachers. Children vary significantly in their ability to adapt into the classroom environment, and intervention efforts require greater understanding of the malleable …
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