Browsing by Author "Dale C. Farran"
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Cummings, Tracy Payne (2011-08-16)Department: Learning, Teaching, and DiversityMany educators, organizations, committees, and curricula promote the importance of preschool children’s math talk, particularly among children from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, to better prepare children for ...
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Mowrey, Sascha Cybele (2017-04-06)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityAs efforts are made in pre-kindergarten settings to design and model high quality programs, there is a growing need to attend to the aspects of the local context that may influence the ways that teachers and staff make ...
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Aydogan, Canan (2012-07-24)Department: Teaching and LearningThis study described instructional and emotional classroom environments, as well as the learning engagement of children involved in various classroom tasks, and explored whether variability in children’s classroom experiences ...
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Darrow, Catherine Lucie (2010-08-06)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThe following multi-paper dissertation addresses issues of effectiveness and implementation inherent in preschool curriculum interventions. This document consists of an overview of challenges faced by educational researchers ...
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Nurturing Word Learners: Children’s Opportunities for Vocabulary Learning in Head Start Classrooms Grifenhagen, Jill Freiberg (2012-11-29)Department: Teaching and LearningThis study describes the word-learning opportunities available to children in Head Start classrooms and examines relationships between these opportunities and children’s preschool vocabulary gains. The sample was composed ...
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Anthony, Karen Suzanne (2013-04-08)Department: Teaching and LearningSelf-regulation is increasingly recognized as a key component of early school readiness. Self-regulatory skills, like paying attention, ignoring distractions, following directions, and persisting on difficult tasks, are ...
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Varol, Filiz (2009-09-09)Department: Teaching and LearningThe primary purpose of this study is to critically investigate the association between preschool teachers’ mathematics instruction and their participation in a preschool mathematics intervention program in terms of three ...