Executive Summary There is growing evidence that children who enter kindergarten ready for its academic, socio-emotional, and physical demands are more likely to achieve future academic success (Duncan et al., 2007; Hair et al., 2006). In contrast, children who enter kindergarten behind their peers in these areas are at risk for academic underachievement (Cabell, Justice, Logan, & Konold, 2013)...

BACKGROUND Aggression is a kind of behavior that causes damage or harm to others. The prevalence of aggression is 8-20% in 3-6 years old children. The present study aimed to assess the effect of training kindergarten teachers regarding reinforcement behavior therapy on preschoolers' aggression. METHODS In this cluster randomized control trial, 14 out of 35 kindergarten and preschool centers o...

Children's School Placement in Germany: Does Kindergarten Attendance Matter? The positive effects of early childhood programs on children's school success have been demonstrated in the literature. However, most studies were completed in the U.S.A., where early childhood programs vary widely, based on differing auspice, regulation, cost, and other factors. In European countries, early childhood ...

Number sense development was tracked from the beginning of kindergarten through the middle of first grade, over six time points. Children (n = 277) were then assessed on general math achievement at the end of first grade. Number sense performance in kindergarten, as well as number sense growth, accounted for 66 percent of the variance in first-grade math achievement. Background characteristics ...

Children's School Placement in Germany: Does Kindergarten Attendance Matter? The positive effects of early childhood programs on children's school success have been demonstrated in the literature. However, most studies were completed in the U.S.A., where early childhood programs vary widely, based on differing auspice, regulation, cost, and other factors. In European countries, early childhood ...

PURPOSE Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) use phonological awareness assessments in many ways. This study examines the usefulness of these assessments in kindergarten and 2nd grade. METHOD Measures of phonological awareness and letter identification were administered in kindergarten, and measures of phonological awareness, phonetic decoding (i.e., nonword reading), and word reading were adm...

Background: The transition to child care is a challenging time in a child's life and leads to elevated levels of cortisol. These elevations may be influenced by the quality of the mother-child relationship. However, remarkably little is known about cortisol production in response to the beginning of child care among children-at-risk such as children with an immigrant background. However, attend...

Using robotics platforms for kindergarten children to interest them for computer science is a rather new idea in educational robotics. In this paper we present two different robotics projects in kindergartens. The Department of Computer Science at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien established a course setting for children aged four to six years. Within the project they compared ...

This paper discusses emerging findings from 12 focus group interviews of parents who are currently using kindergarten as the main early childhood education provider for their child/children. These interviews are from a larger national study looking at current kindergarten culture within the early childhood sector of this century. Parents were asked what they liked about kindergarten and what, i...

Changes in Socioeconomic, Racial/Ethnic, and SexDisparities in ChildhoodObesity at School Entry in the United States The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data suggest aplateauingof childhoodobesity in theUnitedStates, with no trend among children younger than 11 years since 1999.1,2However, studieshavechallenged this findingandcautioned that the overall static trend masks signif...