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Early Bilingual Development: Expanding Our Understanding of Family Language Policy in Heritage Language Maintenance
The increased attention given to immigrants’ English proficiency and their academic achievement in schools has blinded society to the issues associated with heritage language (HL) loss that children of immigrants face. ... -
Early childcare provider recognition of behaviors related to Autistic Spectrum Disorders and parent communication
(2013-07-25)Research suggests that early identification of Autism Spectrum Disorders leads to best outcomes; however, children are regularly not being identified as early as they could be, especially children from certain populations ... -
Early Childhood Teachers Improving Together: The Impact on Teacher Noticing of Participation in Video-Mediated Professional Learning Communities within a Teacher Preparation Course
As early childhood teachers are increasingly required to enact higher quality teacher-child interactions and pursue higher levels of education, teacher educators need to be able to facilitate effective pedagogies that ... -
Early Learning with Digital Media: A Naturalistic, Ethnographic Investigation of Children's Engagement with and Learning from Television and Digital Technology in Early Childhood
(2012-08-10)Digital media is a broad concept that includes everything from movies to video games to websites. These media are cultural norms for young people, becoming part of their identity as they use and create content. In this ... -
Easing the Sophomore Slump: The Effect of Family, Ethnic Identity, and Campus Climate on Filipino American Students' Experiences During Their Second Year of College
The purpose of this qualitative research study is to examine how Filipino American family, ethnic identity, and campus climate, combined with the struggles typically associated with the sophomore year of college, affect ... -
Educating English language learners in early childhood classrooms: A survey of teachers’ sense of preparedness and self-efficacy in Washington State
The increasingly diverse population of children in early childhood care and education settings has called attention to the growing demands being placed on teachers to effectively support these students. Current literature ... -
Education at the Crossroads of Transpacific U.S. and Japanese Imperialisms: Korean Private Schooling in Territorial Hawai‘i, 1906–1940
In territorial Hawai‘i (1900–1959), transpacific migrant Koreans engaged with a highly stratified, tripartite social system consisting of propertied white colonials, culturally and materially dispossessed indigenous ... -
Education for a New Race: White Schools, Child Labor, and Creating the Mexican in the Equality State, 1917-1941
What has been the historical role of public schools in creating segregation and race? This study looks at the schooling experience of Mexican, Mexican American, and white children—all viewed as white under the law—in Wyoming ... -
Educator-driven data use? A case study of P-20 data use in Washington State
The federal government has granted states millions of dollars to build longitudinal P-20 data systems. These systems link early learning, K-12, post-secondary and workforce data so the various educational pathways people ... -
The Effect of Dialogic Reading on Early Literacy Outcomes for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
(2012-09-13)The incorporation of dialogic reading techniques in adult-child book reading has been effective in improving early literacy skills in children with language delays and those from at-risk populations. There is, however, ... -
The Effect of Implementing Culturally Relevant and Anti-Bias Activities with Young Children in a Preschool Classroom
(2012-09-13)The effects of a culturally relevant, anti-bias curriculum on a child's awareness of his or her classroom peers were studied in preschool aged children of diverse racial/ethnic backgrounds. Eighteen students (7 Black, 5 ... -
The Effect of Two Identified Teaching Variables on the Assignment of Secondary Teachers Between Student Tracks
(1983-06-28)This study was designed to determine if such effective teaching behaviors as enthusiasm and verbal clarity impact decisions by administrators when they are faced with assigning teachers to high and low track classes. An ... -
Effective teaching practices in the linguistically diverse university classroom
(2005)Students whose first language is not English have been entering postsecondary institutions in the United States in increasing numbers. Most faculty members have not been trained in teaching these students, and when they ... -
The Effects of a Multi-Tiered Support System Inspired Framework of Professional Development on Teacher Implementation of Discrete Trial Teaching
This study documents the effects of a modest multi-tiered system of support (MTSS) inspired professional development (PD) framework on teacher implementation fidelity of Discrete Trial Teaching (DTT). A concurrent ... -
The effects of a parent-implemented intervention on social-communicative behaviors of prelinguistic handicapped infants
(1986)Effective interactions between parents and infants are essential for infant development. Social interactions between parents and infants provide the basis for language, cognitive, and social development. When the infant ... -
The effects of an adaptive seating device on postural alignment and upper extremity function in infants with neuromotor impairments
(1996)The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a contoured foam seat (CFS) on postural alignment and on a functional upper extremity activity of engagement with toys in infants with neuromotor impairments. Parental ... -
Effects of Antecedent Physical Activity on Engagement
Research shows that longer periods of moderate-intensity exercises increase student engagement in the classroom. There is little research examining the effects of a 1-minute period of high-intensity exercise embedded into ... -
Effects of classroom composition on cognitive and language development and social behavior of young children with disabilities
(1994)This study examined the effects of three different classroom compositions--segregated, integrated special education, and mainstreamed--on the developmental and social behavior outcomes of 66 young children with disabilities. ... -
Effects of Classroom Vocabulary and Text Reading Instruction on Student Literacy Growth in Grades 4 and 5
(2013-07-25)In this study, we examine the relationship between classroom vocabulary and text reading instruction with student literacy gains. We assessed 473 fourth- and fifth-grade students from 24 classrooms across 16 schools in ... -
Effects of embedded morphological instruction on children's morpho-syntactic production
Being able to use the words that are learned and encountered in school is an important skill for communicating and displaying understanding. Students are increasingly expected to be able to appropriately and effectively ...