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Early learning and school readiness: Can early intervention make a difference?

CT Ramey… - … sciences: essays in honor of Merrill- …, 2007 - books.google.com
... for their children for reasons other than educational enrichment—such as ... prosocial behavior+
Behavior problems++ Vocabulary++ Receptive language++ Reasoning+ Home environment
NS+ ... Early intervention and mediating processes in cognitive per- formance of children of ...

The role of home literacy environment in the development of language ability in preschool children from low-income families

AC Payne, GJ Whitehurst… - Early Childhood Research …, 1994 - Elsevier
... been found to be predictive of children's language skills and are usually viewed as cap turing
some of the genetically mediated effects of ... BD DeBaryshe, SL Rodarmel, BA Daly and L. Huntley ,
Shared picture book reading in the home: A language enrichment program for ...

Parent involvement, cultural capital, and the achievement gap among elementary school children

JS Lee… - American Educational Research Journal, 2006 - aer.sagepub.com
... 2003; McWayne, Hampton, Fantuzzo, Cohen, & Sekino, 2004) and may mediate the effects ... form
of infor- mation (eg, about upcoming events or available enrichment activities), skills ... involvement
at school, more frequent parent-child educational discussions at home, and higher ...

Social correlates of emergent literacy

BM Phillips - The science of reading: A handbook, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
... Data from home- and school-based intervention studies support these correlational findings
(eg ... child's participatory role, such that the adult scaffolds and facilitates enriched speech and ... Such
differences may partially mediate the relation between SES and reading-related out ...

The effects of the Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) on children's school performance at the end of the program and one year later

AJL Baker, CS Piotrkowski… - Early Childhood Research …, 1998 - Elsevier
... The Center provided an enriched, high-quality early childhood education setting for
prekindergarten and ... family structure, and parent participation in welfare-to-work activities might
also mediate the impact of ... Home visiting in the early years: Policy and program design decisions. ...

Day‐Care Participation as a Protective Factor in the Cognitive Development of Low‐Income Children

MOB Caughy, JA DiPietro… - Child development, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
... Based on models of early enrichment, these pro- grams were designed to supplement the im ...
education and characteristics of the home environment are factors which may mediate any
observed ... ethnic group, school enrollment status, and the total score on the HOME-SF were en ...

Effects of poverty on mathematics and reading achievement of young adolescents

MK Eamon - The Journal of Early Adolescence, 2002 - jea.sagepub.com
... Although researchers have analyzed variables that mediate the relation between poverty and ...
Mothers with more years of education or higher levels of intelligence can provide better quality
home environments than can many mothers with fewer intellectual resources ...

Self-regulation and the income-achievement gap

GW Evans… - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2008 - Elsevier
... indicators of cognitive development from birth through adolescence is partially mediated by
cognitive ... the data sets also includes a measure of parental investment, cognitive enrichment in
the ... domestic partner status and number of children residing in the home], ethnicity [White ...

The development of cognitive and academic abilities: growth curves from an early childhood educational experiment.

…, EP Pungello, S Miller-Johnson… - Developmental …, 2001 - psycnet.apa.org
... Surroundings enriched with a variety of play- things and learning equipment should also foster
more ... c) the effects of treatment on academic achievement over time were mediated by cognitive ...
age intervention, which consisted of visits to the home by a home-school resource ...

The home instruction program for preschool youngsters (HIPPY)

AJL Baker, CS Piotrkowski… - The Future of Children, 1999 - JSTOR
... provided an enriched, high-quality early childhood education setting for prekinder- garten and ...
AJL, Piotrkowski, CS, and Brooks-Gunn, J. The effects of the Home Instruction Program for ... ferences
between the two groups, informa- tion about children's cognitive skills and family ...

Examining teacher–child relationships and achievement as part of an ecological model of development

E O'Connor… - American Educational Research …, 2007 - aer.sagepub.com
... mediation were conducted to elucidate mediated effects between change in relationship quality
and ... classroom engagement (z = 2.88, p < .01) partially mediated the association between quality
of ... teacher–child relationships at third grade was also partially mediated by amount ...

When homework is not home work: After-school programs for homework assistance

…, G Morrison, AL Albanese, S Macias - Educational …, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
... school programs is usually offered in addition to other types of enrichment or intervention ... These
results re- inforce the possible mediating effects of self-esteem on aca- demic ... programs have
only indirectly ad- dressed the interaction between out-of-home homework assistance ...

How much is too much? The influence of preschool centers on children's social and cognitive development

S Loeb, M Bridges, D Bassok, B Fuller… - Economics of Education …, 2007 - Elsevier
... both separation from parents and exposure to variable yet potentially enriched learning
environments ... Start have the least number of children's books in their home, while those ... regression
models assume a linear relationship among variables when the relationship is meaningful ...

Relations between early family risk, children's behavioral regulation, and academic achievement

M Sektnan, MM McClelland, A Acock… - Early childhood research …, 2010 - Elsevier
... This lack of cognitive enrichment and investment may lead to fewer opportunities to stimulate ...
minority children, may be exposed to less stimulating materials in the home, face discrimination
in their ... It may be that kindergarten behavioral regulation mediates the effect of 54-month ...

Bridging the gap between genomics and education

SA Petrill… - Mind, Brain, and Education, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
... studies have found similar effects for chaos in the home predicting preschool ... a particular
intervention, and more provocatively, is that response further mediated or moderated ... despite
privation and other children demonstrate learning problems despite environmental enrichment. ...

Paths of effects of early childhood intervention on educational attainment and delinquency: A confirmatory analysis of the Chicago Child‐Parent Centers

AJ Reynolds, SR Ou… - Child Development, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
... participation in an alternative intervention that itself provided educational enrichment and family ...
4 outreach activities including resource mobilization, home visitation, and enrollment of children;
5 ... in early childhood intervention, grade retention is expected to mediate long-term ...

A mediational model of the association between socioeconomic status and three-year-old language abilities: The role of parenting factors

T Raviv, M Kessenich… - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2004 - Elsevier
... In one such study, when scores on the HOME were entered into a stepwise regression, the effect
of income on the IQ scores of ... 1). It was predicted that observed parenting practices (cognitive
stimulation and maternal sensitivity) would mediate the relation between SES and ...

Otitis media, hearing loss, and language learning: controversies and current research

…, J Gravel, R Rosenfeld, S Berman… - … of Developmental & …, 2004 - journals.lww.com
... Skip Navigation Links Home > April 2004 - Volume 25 - Issue 2 > Otitis Media, Hearing Loss,
and ... research studies 10-16 and multidisciplinary reports 3,4 on the linkage between OME and ...
24 England, 25 and the Netherlands 26 ) have been examining the relationship of OME ...

Early educational interventions: Principles of effective and sustained benefits from targeted early education programs

SL Ramey… - Handbook of early literacy research, 2006 - books.google.com
... This “participation index” demonstrated a strong linear relationship to the child's intellectual and ...
Accord- ingly, the curricula used for the parenting and home-visiting programs often ... that center-
based programs with more traditional types of language enrichment and teacher ...

A culture in transition: poor reading and writing ability among children in South African townships

E Pretorius… - Early child development and care, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
... should be pro- vided to preschool children to be used at home under the supervision of (and
mediated by) the ... Psychol., 92(2), 367–376 Feuerstein, R. (1980) Instrumental Enrichment. ... Heath,
SB (1982) What no bedtime story means: Narrative skills at home and school, Lang. ...

Parents' roles in shaping early adolescents' occupational aspirations

KM Jodl, A Michael, O Malanchuk… - Child …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
... swered an additional set of questions administered by trained interviewers in the family home. ...
their child pursue academic talents (eg, en- rolled child in special enrichment programs, praised ...
age, parents' academic values and beliefs did not appear to be mediated via specific ...

Oral language and reading abilities of first-grade Peruvian children: Associations with child and family factors

DC Castro, BB Lubker, DM Bryant… - International Journal of …, 2002 - jbd.sagepub.com
... ordinal) predictor variables, and child birth order had a signi cant positive relationship with
maternal ... Eta2 ˆ .03; p <.05) and parent-to-child reading at home (Eta2 ˆ ... Regarding bivariate
relationships between predictor and outcome variables, for the language measures, child sex ...

Home and family influences on motivations for reading

L Baker, D Scher… - Educational psychologist, 1997 - Taylor & Francis
... magni- tude of the direct effect of home reading activity on achieve- ment, mediated by the ... The
authors concluded that "literacy is not the outcome: of an environment enriched with written
material ... by the researcher and, if available, one familiar book from the child's home library. ...

Family influences on cognitive development and school achievement

D Scott-Jones - Review of research in education, 1984 - JSTOR
... of cognitive development, but the association appears to be lessened in enriched social
environments ... also were impaired in auditory discrimination, which may have mediated the reading ...
out, significant negative correlations between noise level in the home and performance ...

Preschool education, educational attainment, and crime prevention: Contributions of cognitive and non-cognitive skills

AJ Reynolds, JA Temple… - Children and Youth Services Review, 2010 - Elsevier
... are well-suited for examining the pathways through which participation in an enriched program
of ... class rules”, and “I fight at school”) related to their behavior at school and home. ... To address
the second question (Do cognitive and non-cognitive skills mediate or help explain the ...

Goals for parent and future-parent education: Research on parental beliefs and behavior

ES Schaefer - The Elementary School Journal, 1991 - JSTOR
... development and mothers' teaching were correlated with a less educationally enriched home
environ- ment ... Parents not only provide mediated learning experiences through talking with the
child, sharing ... However, even if ideal home environments for learn- ing were created in ...

Economic disparities in middle childhood development: Does income matter?

E Votruba-Drzal - Developmental Psychology, 2006 - psycnet.apa.org
... may also enhance child development, thereby giving rise to a spurious link between in- come ...
second series of OLS regressions, testing the effect of income on home environments, are ... sample
consisted of a nationally representative group of 12,686 youths between the ages of ...

The relative importance of home and school in the development of literacy skills for middle-grade students

VE Lee… - American Journal of Education, 1994 - JSTOR
... School sector and size can mediate the relationship between family status and achievement. ...
(1990) found instruc- tional practices and classroom provisions for literacy enrichment to be ... and
middle-class children's reading achievement, once differ- ences in home conditions are ...

Explaining English language proficiency among adolescent immigrant students

A Carhill, C Suárez-Orozco… - American Educational …, 2008 - aer.sagepub.com
... and further research is needed to determine the factors that may mediate the effect ... There is a
clear link between parental education and the development of academic second-language ... More
educated parents provide language environments at home that are more similar to the ...

Risk and resilience in the urban neighborhood: Predictors of academic performance among low-income elementary school children

L Shumow, DL Vandell… - MERRILL PALMER QUARTERLY, 1999 - questia.com
... Parents who visit the school, provide children enrichment experiences, and supervise homework
make ... an important process contributing to children's emotional well-being at home or in ... reports
corroborating the view that family factors overshadow or mediate community factors ...

The effects of maternal postnatal depression and child sex on academic performance at age 16 years: a developmental approach

…, A Arteche, P Fearon, S Halligan… - Journal of Child …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
... over time; and they may have a direct impact, or operate by mediating relationships – for ... At 8
years, mother–child interactions were videotaped at home during a homework task ... a reliable
scoring scheme (kappa = .78) to assess cognitive support and enrichment, and specifically ...

[BOOK] Eager to learn: Educating our preschoolers

BT Bowman, S Donovan… - 2001 - books.google.com
... The book covers a host of topics, including the teacher- child relationship, the organization and ...
Kagitcibasi, "Early Learning and Human De- velopment: The Turkish Early Enrichment Program;"
Susan ... of Books and Children's Records, Audiotapes, or CDs in the Home, by Child ...

Sorting out successful failures: Exploratory analyses of factors associated with academic and behavioral outcomes of retained students

P Ferguson, SR Jimerson… - Psychology in the …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
... young at-risk students, family background and early social adjustment mediated later progress
in ... the best clinical predictors of social malad- justment in children are home socialization factors ...
as well as through a lengthened, more intensive, and enriched preschool experience ...

[PDF] Significance of home environments as proxy indicators for early childhood care and education.“

S Iltus - Paper commissioned for the EFA Global Monitoring …, 2007 - icpsr.umich.edu
... mothers in Seattle, Washington showed that measures of environmental quality (orderliness,
enrichment and overall ... showed that school achievement and social competence at school are
mediated by family ... of his research as follows: children being read to at home is positively ...

Understanding Parental Influence on Educational Outcomes Among 9 Year Olds in Ireland: The Mediating Role of Resources, Attitudes and Children's Own …

E Smyth, CT Whelan, S McCoy, A Quail… - Child Indicators …, 2010 - Springer
... 1 and 2, we see that educational and cultural resources in the home do mediate the effects ...
resources (in the form of books and computers) and their increased likelihood of providing
enrichment opportunities for ... Computer at home 64.2% 81.8% 88.4% 90.8% 95.4% 85.8% 86.4 ...

[CITATION] Parenting influences on intellectual development and educational achievement

SM Wade - Handbook of parenting. Theory and research for …, 2004 - Sage London

The Known and the Unknown

DL Vandell - … the human developmental sciences: essays in …, 2007 - books.google.com
... discipline as the role of early versus later experience and the efficacy of enrichment and
intervention ... in centers but not on days when these same children were at home (Watamura et ...
quality were included as controls, suggesting that the quantity effects were not mediated by the ...

Long-term effects of early intervention: Turkish low-income mothers and children

…, D Sunar, S Bekman - Journal of Applied Developmental …, 2001 - Elsevier
... best approaches to be used, such as direct (child-focused) or indirect/mediated (parent-focused ...
were supplied to the mothers weekly, alternating between 1 week at home and 1 ... The Mother
Enrichment Program consisted of group discussions guided by the local coordinators as ...

Intellectual impairment in children with blood lead concentrations below 10 μg per deciliter

RL Canfield, CR Henderson Jr… - … England Journal of …, 2003 - Mass Medical Soc
... The mother's income and level of education, the child's iron status, and all lead measures (except
the infancy average) were ... 24. Caldwell BM, Bradley R. Home observation for measurement of
the environment. ... Lead and the relationship between maternal and child intelligence. ...

How Home Enrichment Mediates the Relationship Between Maternal Education and Children's Achievement in Reading and Math

ZY Zadeh, F Farnia… - Early Education and …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
... maternal care during early childhood may influence the relationship between maternal education,
aspects of ... the provision of a variety of experiences to children) mediate the association ... academic
achievement, (b) whether specific aspects of home enrichment differentially affect ...

Cognitive and school outcomes for high-risk African-American students at middle adolescence: Positive effects of early intervention

FA Campbell… - American Educational Research …, 1995 - aer.sagepub.com
... Project (ABC) was to test the degree to which continual, consis- tent enrichment of the ... Study
Participants Four cohorts of infants were admitted to the project between 1972 and 1977. ... preschool
treatment was generally related to mothers wanting to care for their infants at home. ...

[PDF] Academic success begins at home: How children can succeed in school

C Kim - Backgrounder, 2008 - learning-4-life.com
... For a thorough discussion of the “family structure effect” and its mediating factors, see ... Examples
include monitoring chil- dren's activities outside home and school; setting rules; having
conversations ... in the classroom; and reading to children or engaging in other enrichment or lei ...

[PDF] Early childhood education: The journey from efficacy research to effective, everyday practice

CT Ramey… - … on Early Childhood Cognitive Development, Boise …, 2002 - ed.gov
... One-half of each group received an enriched educational program from kindergarten entry through
second grade. This ... Home environment and cognitive ... Early intervention and mediating processes
in cognitive performance of children of low-income African American families. ...

Children's health and education

CT Ramey, SL Ramey… - Handbook of child …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
... to be supported by Educational Programs and Supports at School, Home, and in ... An exceptionally
promising line of scientific inquiry directly addresses the dynamic relationship of a child's ... Parenting
Dimensions Inventory, Parent-child transactions and mediating processes, X, X, X ...

Economically Disadvantaged Children's Transitions Into Elementary School Linking Family Processes, School Contexts, and Educational Policy

R Crosnoe… - American Educational Research …, 2010 - aer.sagepub.com
... who have less social capital, cognitive stimulation, and stability at home (relative to ... The basic
structure of the family socialization model, therefore, can be enriched by expanding ... Do parenting
behaviors, family relations, parent adjustment, and child adjustment mediate the link ...

The how, whom, and why of parents' involvement in children's academic lives: More is not always better

EM Pomerantz, EA Moorman… - Review of Educational …, 2007 - rer.sagepub.com
... However, the idea that skill development mediates the link between parents' involvement and ...
one hand, parents' home-based involvement geared toward children's intellectual enrichment
not directly ... The large majority of studies focused on parents' home-based involvement in ...

Effects of prenatal cocaine exposure on special education in school-aged children

…, A Das, B Lester, L Lagasse, S Shankaran… - …, 2008 - pediatricsdigest.mobi
... reading tutoring/assistance, math tutoring/assistance, and gifted and talented enrichment; and
(5 ... affect IQ scores, and low child IQ scores could mediate the effects of ... SES—socioeconomic status •
MISU—Maternal Interview of Substance Use • HOMEHome Observation for ...

[PDF] How much is too much

S Loeb, M Bridges, D Bassok… - … centers on children's …, 2005 - irepp.stanford.edu
... entails separation from parents, while potentially exposing children to an enriched learning ... in
Head Start have the least number of children's books in their home, while those ... Early intervention
and mediating processes in cognitive performance of children of low-income African ...

The Effects of Children's Head Start Enrollment Age on Their Short‐and Long‐Term Developmental Outcomes

K Lee - Social Service Review, 2008 - JSTOR
... Mothers who report using a language other than English at home enroll their children at age
3 less commonly (8.4 percent) than they do at age 4 (13.7 percent ... In step 4, two‐way interaction
terms are entered; the first interaction is between entry age and maternal education ( ...

Precursors of language ability and academic performance: an inter‐generational, longitudinal study of at‐risk children

L Campisi, LA Serbin, DM Stack… - Infant and Child …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
... In contrast, the quality of the home environment, maternal distress, maternal education and family
income were not ... expressive speech, suggest the presence of a mediational path, in which maternal
language mediates the relationship between maternal withdrawal and child ...

Social class differences in family-school relationships: The importance of cultural capital

A Lareau - Sociology of education, 1987 - JSTOR
... Characteristics offamily life (eg, social networks) also intervene and mediate family-school
relationships. ... and take them to museums, do science, and other enrichment activities. ... After the
mother and son worked at home, he was in the top third of the class in his spelling work. ...

Family socioeconomic status and child executive functions: the roles of language, home environment, and single parenthood

…, D Jutte, A Nuru-Jeter, S Hinshaw… - Journal of the …, 2011 - Cambridge Univ Press
... Finally, we assessed whether the quality of the home environment mediates the association ... It
contains 59 binary items clustered into 8 domains: physical environment, enrichment activities,
parental ... was administered via a semistructured interview at the family home by trained ...

Mind, Brain, and Education in Socioeconomic Context

MJ Farah - … Relations among Mind, Brain and Education, 2010 - Springer
... alone, in practice these programs are often coupled with other, non-nutritional forms of enrichment
or affect ... Such a mediating role is consistent with the results of neuroscience research with animals ...
child, or arranged for child to go, on a trip of more than 50 miles from his home”). ...

DOES PRESCHOOL HELP PREVENT DELINQUENCY IN BOYS WITH A HISTORY OF PERINATAL COMPLICATIONS?*

…, RE Tremblay, F Vitaro, S Parent - Criminology, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
... be most effective with children who are vul- nerable or really need the enrichment. ... 74; 7 items:
vandalism at school; destroy school material; destroy objects at home; vandalize a ... Given the
significant relationship between early childhood behavior and later delinquency, we also ...

[HTML] The Abecedarian Experience

J Sparling, CT Ramey… - Early child development— …, 2007 - books.google.com
... Is described on individual, self-contained pages • Is focused on adult-mediated play • Consists
of ... who most need and would most benefit from systematic pro- vision of enriched learning
opportunities. ... and the rate of curriculum delivery (ie, number of activities per home visit and ...

Family socioeconomic status and consistent environmental stimulation in early childhood

R Crosnoe, T Leventhal, RJ Wirth… - Child …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
... Second, the link between consistent environmental stimulation and learning may also be
moderated ... Are relations between family SES and child learning mediated by consistent
environmental ... The HOME enrichment scale summed the learning materials (sum of 11 binary ...

[PDF] Academic achievements of children in immigrant families

W Han - Educational Research and Reviews, 2006 - academicjournals.org
... 1999; Peterson and Albers, 2001), a high quality home environment (enriched by the ... child and
family characteristics (ie, child and family characteristics may mediate the association ... gathered
from parents on family characteristics and parental involvement in home learning and ...

Understanding the positive role of neighborhood socioeconomic advantage in achievement: The contribution of the home, child care, and school environments.

V Dupere, T Leventhal, R Crosnoe… - Developmental …, 2010 - psycnet.apa.org
... revealed that school climate, as reported by school administrators, did not mediate the association ...
We expected that this link would be detectable even after controlling for a number of ... Finally, we
expected that the home (quality and maternal mental health), child care (quality ...

Variations in the home literacy environment of preschool children: A cluster analytic approach

BM Phillips… - Scientific Studies of Reading, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
... Direct and mediated influences of home literacy and literacy interest on prereaders' oral
vocabulary and early ... restricted finances and limited education, many parents with lower SES
do provide an enriched, supportive HLE ... Home and family influences on motivations for reading ...

Parental involvement at home

L Shumow - Promising practices to support family involvement …, 2010 - books.google.com
... Out-of-school learning/enrichment opportunities. ... The researchers found that concerted cultivation
did indeed partially mediate the relationships between family ... with their first-grade children during
storybook reading and relations with subsequent home reading activity and ...

A longitudinal case study of Head Start eligible children: Implications for urban education

DT Slaughter-Defoe… - Educational Psychologist, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
... If children could receive holistic hu- man services of high quality, and enriched academic-related ...
the student ended up (a) doing factory work, (b) on welfare, or (c) bringing home a bad ... Im- mediate
expectations were predicted only by control-of-envi- ronment and father's level of ...

[PDF] The effect of mediated music lessons on the development of at-risk elementary school children

A Portowitz… - … of the 8th International Conference on …, 2004 - icmpc8.umn.edu
... The children may take the cassettes home and their families are encouraged to listen ... Feuerstein,
R., Rand, Y., Hoffman, M., and Miller, R. Instrumental Enrichment: An Intervention ... and Greenspan,
SL A Theoretical Overview and Empirical Study of Mediated Learning Experience ...

[PDF] Do vocabulary differences explain achievement gaps and can vocabulary-targeted interventions close them

E Hoff - Unpublished Manuscript, Florida Atlantic University, 2009 - nationalacademies.org
... Page 15. Hoff 15 maternal translations those gestures elicited) were found to partially mediate
the relation between ... continue during the school years. One should not expect small doses
of enriched language ... children learning at home and in school. ...

Partnering to foster achievement in reading and mathematics

M GINSBURG‒BLOCK, PH MANZ… - Handbook of school- …, 2009 - books.google.com
... Nye et al., 2007; Sweet & Appelbaum, 2004), an enriched home literacy environment (eg ... based
involvement are both mediated by and serve to mediate home-based support ... a lesser degree
than reading achievement, research supports a positive relationship between these two ...

Psychological tools and mediated learning

A Kozulin - Vygotsky's educational theory in cultural context, 2003 - books.google.com
... Scribner and Cole demonstrated that forms of literacy acquired in the con- text of religious studies,
home learning, and formal schooling all had dif ... IE was thus designed as a remedial and
enrichment program that would provide students with mediated learning experience ...

Maternal education, early child care and the reproduction of advantage

JM Augustine, SE Cavanagh… - Social Forces, 2009 - sf.oxfordjournals.org
... for their children to succeed in the long run (eg, pre-school enrichment), more skill ... Beginning
with Path A, ample evidence supports the link between maternal education and a variety of child ...
for mothers' current partners, only the characteristics of fathers living in the home at the ...

Instruction, teacher–student relations, and math achievement trajectories in elementary school.

R Crosnoe, F Morrison, M Burchinal… - Journal of …, 2010 - psycnet.apa.org
... of data from parents, children, and other adults (eg, child-care providers, teachers) in home,
laboratory playroom ... than, eg, language) was motivated by the lower overall exposure of children
to math enrichment prior to ... They tap an actual relationship rather than classroom climate ...

Early childhood education: The journey from efficacy research to effective practice

CT Ramey… - Handbook of research methods in …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
... Language and literacy skills and their relation to other aspects of child development have been ...
One half of each group received an enriched educational program from kindergarten entry through ...
In essence, the K-2 program was intensive, focused on home and school continuity ...

Child development: risk factors for adverse outcomes in developing countries

SP Walker, TD Wachs, J Meeks Gardner, B Lozoff… - The Lancet, 2007 - Elsevier
... Relation between risk factors in early childhood in Guatemalan children and achievement ...
covariates, prospective cohort studies consistently show significant associations between stunting
by ... the sustained benefits to stunted children who received a home-visiting programme ...

The home learning environment and achievement during childhood

…, S Tang - Handbook of school-family partnerships, 2009 - books.google.com
... also evidence considerable cognitive re- covery when adopted into enriched home environments
(Rutter & ... In addition, the effects of crowding can be indirect, mediated by the ... The Home Learning
Environment and Achievement during Childhood• 145 Parental expectations and ...

Learning disabilities and intellectual functioning in school-aged children with prenatal cocaine exposure

CE Morrow, JL Culbertson… - Developmental …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
... Few published studies to date extend beyond age 6, and published reports are often characterized
by great variability in sample size, methodology, and consideration of potential confound- ing,
mediating, and moderating influences. ... relationship observ ... between drug-exposed ...

Socioeconomic status and the brain: mechanistic insights from human and animal research

DA Hackman, MJ Farah… - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2010 - nature.com
... These findings suggest that the effects of parental care may be mediated through a similar ... exposed
to adversity in early life are more sensitive to environmental enrichment in adolescence ... differences
in levels of parental care and cognitive stimulation in the home underlie SES ...

Using confirmatory factor analysis to understand executive control in preschool children: sources of variation in emergent mathematic achievement

R Bull, KA Espy, SA Wiebe… - Developmental …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
... and exerting inhibitory control, which in turn partially mediates the relation between the quality
of ... The impact of SES on skill development is mediated through other proximal variables ... both to
early positive experiences of responsive parenting and enriched home environment in ...

[BOOK] Family life and school achievement: Why poor black children succeed or fail

RM Clark - 1984 - books.google.com
... be found to conform to expectations from earlier studies of the relation of family ... research done
to date has reported statis- tically significant relationships between "family background ... 7 The
Issue tion, education, family size, material possessions) or certain home dynamics while ...

Parent Involvement in Early Education

AJ Reynolds… - Handbook of School-family …, 2009 - books.google.com
... accomplish this, the centers offer a structured program of parent involvement and language
enrichment. ... was an independent predictor of later educational attainment but did not mediate
the effects ... it is vital that children have similar expectations for learning at home and school ...

Maternal employment and child cognitive outcomes: The importance of analytic approach.

MR Burchinal… - 2007 - psycnet.apa.org
... absence by allowing parents to pro- vide their children with more enriched home environments ...
total language score was computed by summing the two subscales (correlation between the
two ... and coding are described in NICHD ECCRN, 1999, 2001): the Home Observation for ...

Mothers' academic gender stereotypes and education-related beliefs about sons and daughters in African American families.

D Wood, B Kurtz-Costes, SJ Rowley… - Journal of …, 2010 - psycnet.apa.org
... as compared with daughters, then it is plausible that parents' beliefs mediate the association ... Initial
contact with families was made through consent documents sent home with children to be ... In the
final stage of the analyses, we assessed the relation between mothers' academic ...

[PDF] Use of Survey of Program Dynamics for Studying the Implications of Welfare Reform for Families and Children.”

S Hofferth - Child Trends, 2002 - census.gov
... them in preschool and enrichment programs. It may lead to less television viewing ... Other factors set
the type of climate in the family and may mediate or moderate children's outcomes. ... in the home can
provide a crude measure of the family emotional climate and this may ...

The impact of parental working conditions on school-age children: The case of evening work

SJ Heymann, A Earle - Community, Work & Family, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
... However, little work has been done to examine the relationship between work schedules
and the care of school-age children. ... The HOME score measures parental involvement,
responsiveness, enrichment opportunities and the physical environment. ...

Day‐Care Participation as a Protective Factor in the Cognitive Development of Low‐Income Children

MOB Caughy, JA DiPietro… - Early Intervention, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
... Based on models of early enrichment, these programs were designed to supplement the
impoverished ... and characteristics of the home environment are factors which may mediate any
observed ... a center or school, and children receiving nonmaternal care in their own home. ...

[HTML] How does poverty beget poverty?

LS Pagani - Paediatrics & child health, 2007 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... Low-income children have fewer in-home play spaces and natural outdoor spaces in which to ...
field of prevention have made an effort to invest in early cognitive social enrichment and social ...
The mechanisms mediating the effects of poverty on children's intellectual development. ...

The Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) Scale: A review of research

R Elardo… - Developmental Review, 1981 - Elsevier
... about those aspects of life in lowSES homes which may mediate this relationship ... immediately
after birth, 14 premature infants who received no special enrichment, and 16 ... Matching
Environments Typically, environmental process measures, such as the HOME scale, account ...

Informal science experience, attitudes, future interest in science, and gender of high‐ability students: An exploratory study

BA Joyce… - School Science and Mathematics, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
... the courses selected by high-ability boys and girls for their enrichment programs, the ... social
cognitive theory, students may develop adaptive academic behaviors that are mediated more
by ... If this causal relationship exists, educators will be in a position to remediate deficiencies ...

Early childhood experiences and developmental competence

SL Ramey… - … future: Investing in children from birth to …, 2000 - books.google.com
... for infants and young children these influences ap- pear to be largely mediated through their ... Even
programs that provide home visiting and parenting classes to teach mothers more ... The Romanian
orphans received this enrichment from trained and supervised caregivers for six ...

[BOOK] What Do We Know about Teaching Young Children?

T David… - 2003 - bera.ac.uk
... A considerable body of neurobiological evidence (Gopnik et al 1999) supports the importance
of enriched, stimulating early childhood environments. ... Mathematics In relation to early mathematics,
we know that:- • adults at home mediate children's number experiences, but ...

Precursors of mild mental retardation in children with adolescent mothers

JG Borkowski, JJ Lounds, CW Noria… - International Review of …, 2004 - Elsevier
... Interestingly, maternal child abuse potential, at ages 3 and 5, mediated the effects of prenatal
maternal ... they were given 5 minutes to play “like they normally do at home.” Play periods ... For each
of the child outcomes that showed a relationship with parenting, 6-month measures of ...

[BOOK] Improving schooling for language-minority children: A research agenda

D August, K Hakuta - 1997 - books.google.com
... San Antonio Metropolitan Health District, Texas BERNARD GUYER, Department of Maternal
and Child ... children in preschool programs requires a closer look at the relationship between the
acquisition of ... 1. A new Department of Education Advisory Committee on Research on ...

Parental practices and educational achievement: social class, race, and habitus

K Bodovski - British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
... The first mediating variable was parental expectations regarding the child's educational attainment
(the variable ... at home (playing with a child, singing songs, helping with home work and ... Although
social class explained about 60% of the relationship between race and concerted ...

Strategies to avoid the loss of developmental potential in more than 200 million children in the developing world

PL Engle, MM Black, JR Behrman… - The Lancet, 2007 - Elsevier
... consistent epidemiological evidence, are risks related to social conditions (maternal depression
and ... parents to improve their parenting skills and resources, through home visits, group ... appropriate
interactions (matched to the child's emerging abilities) between caregivers and ...

Lasting effects of early education: A report from the Consortium for Longitudinal Studies

I Lazar, R Darlington, H Murray, J Royce… - Monographs of the …, 1982 - JSTOR
... e) We draw a distinction between "experimental" and "quasi-ex- perimental" studies as part of ...
low-income children were variously termed early intervention pro- grams, environmental
enrichment programs, or ... brought to the family home by a parent educator or home visitor, who ...

[BOOK] Preventing reading difficulties in young children

CE Snow, MS Burns… - 1998 - books.google.com
... H023S50001 between the National Academy of Sciences and the US Department of Education ...
Sisters of America; Child Welfare League of America; Families, 4-H and Nutrition; Home and
School ... of State Boards of Education; National Center for Education in Maternal and Child ...

A study of relationship between motivational beliefs and selfregulated strategies and academic achievement of school students

S Jahedi - 2012 - ir.inflibnet.ac.in
... In education, a meta-analysis of studies published between 1977 and ... efficacy mediates the effect
of possessed skills or other self-beliefs on ... Pajares and Miller (1994) found in a study on first year
university students that there was a direct relationship between math self-efficacy ...

[PDF] Foundations of Young Children's Vocabulary Development: The Role of the Home Literacy Environment (HLE)

JE Gonzalez, VY Rivera, MJ Davis… - 2010 - world.tamu.edu
... Furthermore, the more enriched the HLE, the more pos- itive were parental facilitative reading ...
other variables that could limit opportunities for learning, children's interest in literacy mediated
the relationship ... to do things in books and magazines when we make things at home. ...

Early Care and Prekindergarten Care as Influences on School Readiness

…, J Kim, S Sinha - Journal of Family Issues, 2011 - jfi.sagepub.com
... Kimmel, 2006) or because nonparental care is being used as an enrichment activity and ... between
early care experiences and school readiness, does prekindergarten experience mediate that
relationship? ... large differences in how many children's book were in the home (M = 74 ...

The relation of maternal emotional and cognitive support during problem solving to pre‐academic skills in preschoolers

…, M O'Brien, SD Calkins, S Marcovitch - Infant and Child …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
... some light on the relative importance of each dimension of parenting in relation to early ... the extent
to which toys and learning materials are available in the home environment, the child ... teach their
child concepts and take their child to places and events that provide enrichment. ...

[PDF] and the Achievement Gap

S Loeb… - cepa.stanford.edu
... examples demonstrate that environments can play a critical role in mediating genetic
characteristics ... a high quality half-day, nine month preschool program, home visitation, outreach
services, and comprehensive school-age services (reduced class size, enrichment activities, ...

Links between Motor Skills and Indicators of School Readiness at Kindergarten Entry in Urban Disadvantaged Children

…, S Messier - Journal of Educational and Developmental …, 2012 - ccsenet.org
... with their children and participate in cognitively stimulating activities at home, which results ... Scope
Program (Hohmann & Weikart, 2002) and other preschool enrichment programs that ... competence
becomes mediated by child characteristics, especially by number knowledge, as ...

Have Children Adapted to Their Mothers Working, or was Adaptation Unnecessary? Cohort Effects and the Relationship between Maternal Employment and Child …

JB Wills… - Social Science Research, 2011 - Elsevier
... However, despite such a sustained record of inquiry, research on the link between child
well-being ... better for the man to work and the woman to stay home in families. ... parents’
economic investments than time investments given their stronger needs for enrichment goods ...

The Responsive Classroom Approach and Its Implications for Improving Reading and Writing

EM McTigue… - Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
... Furthermore, children's perception of school mediated the relation between RC practices and
teachers' ratings of children's social skills, but it did not mediate the relation ... Rationale for
“Literacy-Enriched” Morning Meetings. ... New York , NY : Random House Children's Books . ...

Does executive function mediate SES and home quality associations with academic readiness?

JE Dilworth-Bart - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2012 - Elsevier
... 2011), for example, observed that ratings on the parental responsiveness, enrichment, and family ...
in their sample, but, contrary to their expectations, expressive language did not mediate SES
associations ... Along with being predicted by SES and home quality, total EF scores and ...

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