Method: Sixteen Kindergarten and Year 1 teachers (four from enclosed classrooms, three from double classrooms, six from triple classrooms, and three from a Kindergarten-to-Year 6 classroom) completed a questionnaire about their teaching background and style, the demographics of the children in their class, how they perceive the classroom listening environment, what internal and external noise s...

this study examines development of social competence, and behavior problems in kindergarten children during a specific period of childhood.a sample of 499 kindergarten children (244 girls and 255 boys) with the age range of 2 years up to 5 years and 6 months was selected using the random stratified sampling method. to collect data, california preschool social competence scale and social skills ...

In diesem Text beschreiben wir die andauende Entwicklung und bisherigen Ergebnisse unserer Forschung zu einer kindlichen, spielerischen und in hohem Maße körperund raumbezogenen Programmierumgebung: den Tangicons. Rückblickend auf deren Entwicklung schildern wir die wesentlichsten Designentscheidungen und Ergebnisse der ersten Evaluationen, die sich auf Beobachtungen und Erkenntnisse in Vorschu...

This study evaluated the dental anxiety levels of preschool children at a kindergarten and at a dental clinic. The anxiety levels of ninety 4-6-year-old (4.99 ± 0.81) preschool children were evaluated according to pulse rates, the facial image scale (FIS), the Venham picture test (VPT), and the Frankl behavior rating scale. The children's mothers were asked to complete the state-trait anxiety i...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between children's overweight status in kindergarten and their academic achievement in kindergarten and first grade. RESEARCH METHODS AND PROCEDURES The data analyzed consisted of 11,192 first time kindergartners from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, a nationally representative sample of kindergartners in the U.S. in 1998. Multivariate regression te...

OBJECTIVE Developmental delay screening is essential in pediatric medicine. The purpose of this study was to estimate the developmental delay in apparently normal children at entry to kindergarten. MATERIALS & METHODS In this cross- sectional study conducted in 2013, the developmental status of a sample of children who entered to kindergarten at the age of 4-60 months were evaluated by the Pe...

OBJECTIVE Minor illnesses and major diseases are affected by individual, environmental, and social factors. We sought to determine if children's temperament and pain reactivity (individual response styles) measured in kindergarten are related to future health behavior. METHODS Seven-year follow-up measures of health behavior were gathered in 42 children (mean age M = 11 years) who participate...

A robust body of research finds positive cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between teacher-child relationships and children's academic achievement in elementary school. Estimating the causal effect of teacher-child relationships on children's academic achievement, however, is challenged by selection bias at the individual and school level. To address these issues, we used two multil...

In 2003, Jordan initiated a period of education reform, one component of which was an effort to improve readiness for first grade by opening public kindergartens. This study had three goals: (a) To describe the school readiness of Jordanian children; (b) To compare the first grade readiness of children who had and had not attended kindergarten; and (c) To compare the 2004 and 2007 readiness of ...