The View From Down Under: Practical Guides for Effective Schooling     

Pamela Sanders Angelle 《School Effectiveness & School Improvement》2013,24(4):531-538

This paper examines the relationship of the policies and practices employed by 3 high school reform models – Early College High Schools, Redesigned High Schools, and High Schools That Work – with student success in college preparatory mathematics courses by the end of the 10th grade. Data on policies and practices collected through a survey of school principals in North Carolina are combined with administrative data on student course-taking and performance. The examined policies include course-taking requirements, rigorous instruction, academic support, personalization, and relevance. Results show that implementation of these policies varies across models and that higher levels of implementation of combinations of these policies are associated with improved outcomes.  相似文献   

Behavioral self-regulation and relations to emergent academic skills among children in Germany and Iceland     

Antje von Suchodoletz  Steinunn Gestsdottir  Shannon B. Wanless  Megan M. McClelland  Freyja Birgisdottir  Catherine Gunzenhauser  Hrafnhildur Ragnarsdottir 《Early childhood research quarterly》2013

The present study investigated a direct assessment of behavioral self-regulation (the Head-Toes-Knees-Shoulders; HTKS) and its contribution to early academic achievement among young children in Germany and Iceland. The authors examined the psychometric properties and construct validity of the HTKS, investigated gender differences in young children's behavioral self-regulation, and explored relations between the HTKS and a teacher report of behavioral self-regulation (the Child Behavior Rating Scale; CBRS) and emerging academic skills. Findings supported the construct validity of the HTKS when used with young German and Icelandic children. Multilevel analyses revealed gender differences, particularly on the CBRS teacher-rated measure. Finally, higher levels of behavioral self-regulation were related to higher academic skills after important background variables were controlled, although some cross-cultural differences in the predictive utility of the HTKS and CBRS were observed. Overall, these results extend prior psychometric work on the HTKS to samples of young European children and support the importance of understanding of the role behavioral self-regulation in young children's development.  相似文献   

Ready or not: Associations between participation in subsidized child care arrangements,pre-kindergarten,and Head Start and children's school readiness     

Nicole D. Forry  Elizabeth E. Davis  Kate Welti 《Early childhood research quarterly》2013

Research has found disparities in young children's development across income groups. A positive association between high-quality early care and education and the school readiness of children in low-income families has also been demonstrated. This study uses linked administrative data from Maryland to examine the variations in school readiness associated with different types of subsidized child care, and with dual enrollment in subsidized child care and state pre-kindergarten or Head Start. Using multivariate methods, we analyze linked subsidy administrative data and portfolio-based kindergarten school readiness assessment data to estimate the probability of children's school readiness in three domains: personal and social development, language and literacy, and mathematical thinking. Compared to children in subsidized family child care or informal care, those in subsidized center care are more likely to be rated as fully ready to learn on the two pre-academic domains. Regardless of type of subsidized care used, enrollment in pre-kindergarten, but not Head Start, during the year prior to kindergarten is strongly associated with being academically ready for kindergarten. No statistically significant associations are found between type of subsidized care, pre-kindergarten enrollment, or Head Start and assessments of children's personal/social development.  相似文献   

Maternal psychological functioning and children's school readiness: The mediating role of home environments for African American children   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Claire E. Baker  Iheoma U. Iruka 《Early childhood research quarterly》2013

Decades of educational research has documented an achievement gap in kindergarten reading and math achievement between African American children and their European American counterparts. Research has also shown that specific parenting practices (e.g., home literacy involvement) have the potential to narrow school readiness gaps by at least half. The current study examined whether and how maternal depression and parenting stress may influence specific parenting practices, as well as whether maternal warmth, home learning stimulation and cultural socialization mediated the relation between maternal depression, parenting stress, and children's kindergarten reading and math achievement. Path analyses revealed a direct negative effect of maternal depression and parenting stress on maternal warmth, home learning stimulation, and cultural socialization. Home learning stimulation emerged as an important mediator between maternal parenting stress and math achievement. Further, maternal warmth mediated the relation between maternal depression and reading achievement. Implications for early childhood research, practice and policy are discussed.  相似文献   

儿童入学准备问题及其教育干预途径     

郝慧颖 《太原大学教育学院学报》2013,31(1):20-22

相关研究发现,儿童早期的入学准备状况能够很好地预测儿童入学后的学校适应,那些在入学准备上存在风险的儿童,将在学校适应上面临更多的问题。因此,及时对学龄儿童采取相应的教育干预,可有效地提高其入学准备水平,为其顺利适应学校生活打下良好基础。文章在实证研究的基础上,结合我国儿童在入学准备方面存在的问题和不足。提出了儿童入学准备的三级教育干预模型：家庭环境的准备、学前教育环境的准备和学校环境的准备。  相似文献   

家庭社会经济地位与儿童学习品质及入学认知准备之间的关系     

王宝华  冯晓霞  肖树娟  苍翠 《学前教育研究》2010,(4)

学习品质是入学准备的重要内容。本研究以143名来自不同社会经济地位家庭的小学一年级新生为对象,通过观察其完成测试任务时的相关表现,比较其学习品质的发展状况,并考察学习品质与认知准备间的关系。结果显示,家庭社经地位对儿童的学习品质有明显的影响。高社会经济地位家庭的儿童在主动性想像和创造能力好奇心专注程度和目标意识方面的表现显著优于社会经济地位较低家庭的儿童;学习品质与儿童认知准备之间存在高相关。  相似文献   

西北少数民族女童学前教育存在的问题与解决对策     

沈蕙 《学前教育研究》2010,(4)

受经济发展水平、传统民族文化等因素的制约,我国西北少数民族地区女童学前教育十分落后。少数民族女童接受学前教育的比率很低,无法获得政府投入与家长观念上的支持,即便有机会接受学前教育,其课程通常模式化现象严重,脱离少数民族女童的生活实际。为促进少数民族女童学前教育的发展,促进教育起点公平,降低少数民族女童小学辍学率,政府应在加大投入的同时,鼓励民间力量创办学前教育机构,有条件时对少数民族女童实施免费学前教育,同时加强对少数民族女童学前教育师资的培训与课程的改革,增加民族教育的内容,广泛推行汉语与少数民族语言并行的双语教育,对少数民族女童父母进行培训,提高其认识,从而为少数民族女童接受学前教育创造良好的外部条件。  相似文献   

The Individualized Classroom Assessment Scoring System (inCLASS): Preliminary reliability and validity of a system for observing preschoolers’ competence in classroom interactions   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Jason T. Downer  Leslie M. Booren  Olivia K. Lima  Amy E. Luckner  Robert C. Pianta 《Early childhood research quarterly》2010

This paper introduces the Individualized Classroom Assessment Scoring System (inCLASS), an observation tool that targets children's interactions in preschool classrooms with teachers, peers, and tasks. In particular, initial evidence is reported of the extent to which the inCLASS meets the following psychometric criteria: inter-rater reliability, normal distributions and adequate range, construct validity, and validity. These initial findings suggest that the inCLASS has the potential to provide an authentic, contextualized assessment of young children's classroom behaviors. Future directions for research with the inCLASS are discussed.  相似文献   

Pre‐service teachers’ open‐minded thinking dispositions,readiness to learn,and attitudes about learning and behavioural difficulties in students     

Nezihe Elik  Judith Wiener  Penny Corkum 《欧洲师范教育杂志》2010,33(2):127-146

This self‐report study investigated 274 pre‐service teachers’ attitudes toward students with learning and behavioural difficulties (LBD) and the factors that predict their attitudes. Using four scenarios describing students with LBD, we investigated the degree to which pre‐service teachers’ open‐minded thinking dispositions, readiness to learn about students with LBD, beliefs about the role of regular classroom teachers in providing for these students, and emotions in relation to dealing with these students’ difficulties predict their likelihood of engaging in punitive reactions (e.g., giving a timeout) and planned behaviours (e.g., adapting instruction). Teachers with more open‐minded thinking dispositions and readiness to learn about students with LBD reported a higher likelihood of adapting instruction. Pre‐service teachers’ negative emotions partially mediated the relationship between their beliefs and punitive reactions and fully mediated the relationship between their open‐minded thinking dispositions and punitive reactions.  相似文献   

Implementation Quality: Lessons Learned in the Context of the Head Start REDI Trial     

Domitrovich CE  Gest SD  Jones D  Gill S  Sanford Derousie RM 《Early childhood research quarterly》2010,25(3):284-298

This study uses data collected in the intervention classrooms (N = 22) of Head Start REDI (Research-based, Developmentally Informed), a randomized clinical trial testing the efficacy of a comprehensive preschool curriculum targeting children's social-emotional competence, language, and emergent literacy skills delivered by teachers who received weekly coaching support. Multiple dimensions of implementation (Dosage, Fidelity, Generalization, and Child Engagement) were assessed across curriculum components. Results indicated that REDI Trainers perceived significant growth in teacher implementation quality over time but that patterns differed by implementation dimension. Dosage and Fidelity of all intervention components were high at the beginning of the year and remained so over time while Generalization was low at baseline but increased significantly across the year. Variation in implementation was associated with variation on several child outcome measures in the social-emotional domain but not in the language and literacy domains.  相似文献