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The social competence of Latino kindergartners and growth in mathematical understanding.

C Galindo… - Developmental Psychology, 2010 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract 1. We know that social competence contributes to young children's adaptation to,
and cognitive learning within, classroom settings. Yet initial evidence is mixed on the social
competencies that Latino children bring to kindergarten and the extent to which these ...

Kindergarten predictors of mathematical growth in the primary grades: An investigation using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study--Kindergarten cohort.

JC DiPerna, PW Lei… - Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007 - psycnet.apa.org
... ents, teachers, and other educational stakeholders have identified the promotion of student social
competence as an ... The first, general class- room competencies, includes social, motor, and
emerging mathe- matics and literacy ... More than one race, non-Hispanic 89 3 2 101 3 2 ...

Babies and Robots: Technology to Assist Learning of Young Multiply Disabled Children.

MM Behrmann… - Rehabilitation Literature, 1984 - eric.ed.gov
EJ308319 - Babies and Robots: Technology to Assist
Learning of Young Multiply Disabled Children.

School Readiness: A Focus on Children, Families, Communities, and Schools. The Informed Educator Series.

R Pianta - 2002 - eric.ed.gov
... have such capabilities at school entry focuses on literacy and language, and social and self ...
Discussion of the impact on schools and classrooms on young children's competence focuses
on ... the right kinds of instruction to all children, customizing the kindergarten classroom, and ...

The Social Context of Readiness.

RF Nelson - 1995 - eric.ed.gov
... 1,339 kindergarten teachers from a sample of 860 schools across the country who responded
to the "Public School Kindergarten Teachers' Views on Children's Readiness for School"
questionnaire. The results indicated that views of readiness were influenced by social context. ...

The Role of Cultural Factors in School Relevant Cognitive Functioning: Description of Home Environmental Factors, Cultural Orientations, and Learning Preferences. …

AW Boykin… - 2000 - eric.ed.gov
ED441059 - The Role of Cultural Factors in School Relevant Cognitive
Functioning: Description of Home Environmental Factors, Cultural
Orientations, and Learning Preferences. Report No. 43.

Number sense growth in kindergarten: A longitudinal investigation of children at risk for mathematics difficulties

NC Jordan, D Kaplan, L Nabors Oláh… - Child …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
... Although competence in high-level math serves as a gateway to a myriad careers in ... ABAB patterns),
and this skill is sensitive to background variables, such as social class (Starkey ... Our low-income
participants were mainly African American and Latino children from urban areas. ...

Learning from Latinos: contexts, families, and child development in motion.

B Fuller… - Developmental Psychology, 2010 - psycnet.apa.org
... the norms and behavioral scripts that ensure a motivating sense of competence and membership ...
The child's motivated learning and experience of social participation is now seen as learned
or ... But the Latino child, at times acculturating more rapidly than his parents, gains some ...

Parental Roles in the Acquisition of Primary Level Skills: An Exploratory View on the Low-Income Hispanic-American Families with 3 and 4-Year Old Children.

A Zaman - Education, 2006 - eric.ed.gov
... that Hispanic children were the poorest and the fastest growing group who often did not receive
formal educational exposure due to varied socio-economic and ethno-contextual factors. Using
Primary Level Assessment Systems (pre-reading, pre-writing, pre-mathematical, and ...

Getting a Good Start in School.

C Copple - 1997 - eric.ed.gov
... of Goal 1 and a look at the subjective nature of assessing learning readiness, the booklet briefly
discusses the following five dimensions that contribute to school preparedness: (1) health and
physical development; (2) emotional well-being and social competence, serving as the ...

Minority Achievement and Parental Support: Academic Resocialization through Mentoring.

HT Trueba… - 1988 - eric.ed.gov
... classroom. Academic competencies include not only a high level of proficiency in
English, critical thinking skills, and the ability to control the relationship between
language and logic, but also social and cultural skills. Although ...

Preparing the Way for Student Cognitive Development.

MP McMinn - Multicultural Education, 2001 - eric.ed.gov
EJ634011 - Preparing the Way for Student Cognitive Development.

Development of Psychosocial Maturity: A Review of Selected Effects of Schooling.

GR Adams - Urban Education, 1978 - eric.ed.gov
EJ191664 - Development of Psychosocial Maturity: A Review of Selected Effects of Schooling.

Social Competence Needs in Young Children: What the Research Says.

DF Tunstall - 1994 - eric.ed.gov
... Record Details - ED371879. Title: Social Competence Needs in Young Children: What the
Research Says. Full-Text Availability Options: ERIC Full Text (597K). ... Title: Social Competence
Needs in Young Children: What the Research Says. Authors: Tunstall, Dorothy F. ...

The influence of demographic risk factors on children's behavioral regulation in prekindergarten and kindergarten

SB Wanless, MM McClelland… - Early Education and …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
... The social competence of Latino kindergartners and growth in mathematical understanding .
Developmental Psychology , 46 , 579 – 592 . ... The social competence of Latino kindergartners
and growth in mathematical understanding . Developmental Psychology , 46 , 579 – 592 . ...

Age of Entry, Holding Out and Kindergarten Retention: Differences as a Function of Gender and Ethnicity.

M Cosden… - 1991 - eric.ed.gov
... enter kindergarten would vary as a function of their gender and ethnicity; (2) children who were
held out of kindergarten would be in the younger part of their cohort, and Anglo boys would be
held out more frequently than females or Latinos; (3) kindergarten retention would be ...

Ecological contexts and early learning: Contributions of child, family, and classroom factors during Head Start, to literacy and mathematics growth through first grade

AH Hindman, LE Skibbe, A Miller… - Early Childhood Research …, 2010 - Elsevier
... Similarly, children's social competence has been cited by kindergarten teachers as the ... to
demonstrate higher achievement than their African-American and Hispanic/Latino peers ([Hughes ...
English speaker status), child skills such as language and social competence, and the ...

What is appropriate mathematics education for four-year-olds? Pre-kindergarten teachers' beliefs

JS Lee… - Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2007 - ecr.sagepub.com
... instruction and carefully sequenced tasks, repetition, practice, as opposed to a child-oriented
approach that stresses social and emotional ... Hispanic 3 (20.0) 1 (6.7) ... in interest, 8) children's
individual differences in competence, 9) use of con- crete materials and computers, and 10 ...

A Matter of Culture: The Educative Styles of Afro-American Children.

J Hale - 1980 - eric.ed.gov
ED197856 - A Matter of Culture: The Educative Styles of Afro-American Children.

Food insecurity affects school children's academic performance, weight gain, and social skills

DF Jyoti, EA Frongillo… - The Journal of nutrition, 2005 - Am Soc Nutrition
... and teacher-reported social skills provide the best means of measuring social competence in
the ... however, to corroborate the potential association between food insecurity and better social
skills among ... increased risk of overweight among 8- to 16-y-old non-Hispanic white girls. ...

Turning Ugly Ducklings into Swans: How Best to Educate for Cultural Environmental Differences.

M Meeker - Gifted Child Today Magazine, 1995 - eric.ed.gov
EJ501387 - Turning Ugly Ducklings into Swans: How Best to
Educate for Cultural Environmental Differences.

Otitis Media in Early Childhood and Its Relationship to Later Speech and Language.

JE Roberts - 1986 - eric.ed.gov
ED312801 - Otitis Media in Early Childhood and Its Relationship to Later Speech and Language.

Peer Play Interactions and Readiness to Learn: A Protective Influence for African American Preschool Children From Low‐Income Households

RJ Bulotsky‐Shearer, PH Manz… - Child Development …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
... Galindo, C., & Fuller, B. (2010). The social competence of Latino kindergartners and growth
in mathematical understanding. Developmental Psychology, 46, 579–592. Garcia Coll, C.,
Lamberty, G., Jenkins, R., McAdoo, HP, Crnic, K., Wasik, BH, et al. (1996). ...

" Cognitive Style" and School Failure.

KM Anderson - 1977 - eric.ed.gov
... The conclusions are that cognitive performance is inextricably related to the social and cultural
tradition which produced it, but cannot be directly correlated with cognitive style until further
research is done on other variables such as social status, students' fear in test situations ...

Preliminary Development of a Kindergarten School Readiness Assessment for Latino Students

M Quirk, M Furlong, E Lilles, E Felix… - Journal of Applied School …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
... Predicting children's competence in the early school years: A meta-analytic review. ... based
measurement probes alone do not assess the physical, behavioral, and social-emotional domains ...
end of Grade 2. Last, this study focuses primarily on a population of Latino students from ...

Developmentally appropriate practice is for everyone

R Charlesworth - Childhood Education, 1998 - freepatentsonline.com
... Latino children's construction of arithmetic understanding in urban classrooms that support ...
Academic competence, social skills, and behavior among disadvantaged children in
developmentally ... and household composition as predictors of children's school-based competence. ...

Special Needs of Hispanic Business Students: Teaching Methodologies to Develop Social Skills.

RJM Munoz - 1981 - eric.ed.gov
... Title: Special Needs of Hispanic Business Students: Teaching Methodologies to Develop Social
Skills. Full-Text Availability Options: ... Title: Special Needs of Hispanic Business Students: Teaching
Methodologies to Develop Social Skills. Authors: Munoz, RoJean Madsen. ...

Compensatory Education for Preschoolers: A Non-Technical Report on the UWO Preschool Project. Research Bulletin No. 440.

MJ Wright - 1978 - eric.ed.gov
... Level: 1 - Available on microfiche. Institutions: University of Western Ontario, London. Dept. of
Psychology. Sponsors: Department of National Health and Welfare, Ottawa (Ontario).; Ontario
Ministry of Community and Social Services, Toronto. ISBN: N/A. ISSN: N/A. Audiences: N/A ...

Family Income and Its Relation to Preschool Children

RS Mistry, JC Biesanz, LC Taylor… - Developmental …, 2004 - eric.ed.gov
... Cross-sectional mediational analyses indicated that for families living at the poverty threshold,
family processes fully mediated the effect of average income over the study period on social
behavior but only partially mediated its effect on cognitive-linguistic development. ...

Latino children and families: development in cultural context

C GALINDO… - Developmental psychology, 2010 - cat.inist.fr
... Titre du document / Document title. The Social Competence of Latino Kindergartners and Growth
in Mathematical Understanding. Titre de regroupement. Latino children and families: development
in cultural context. Auteur(s) / Author(s). GALINDO Claudia (1) ; FULLER Bruce (2) ...

Socialization to School: A Study of Low-Income and Minority Children in an Early Childhood Setting. Occasional Paper.

AJ Schwartz - 1987 - eric.ed.gov
... The school's pedagogy gave little attention to social outcomes such as cross-cultural and
interracial understanding; the assimilationist ideology of the school excluded pluralistic curricula;
and the "color-blind" universalism accepted in the school obscured the need for "affirmative ...

Kindergarten Adjustment Difficulty: The Contribution of Children

L Nathanson, SE Rimm-Kaufman… - Early Education and …, 2009 - eric.ed.gov
... Record Details - EJ858321. Title: Kindergarten Adjustment Difficulty: The Contribution of Children's
Effortful Control and Parental Control. Full-Text Availability Options: ... Title: Kindergarten Adjustment
Difficulty: The Contribution of Children's Effortful Control and Parental Control. ...

Cultural Misalignment and Emerging Paradigms. Insights on Educational Policy and Practice Number 24.

PC Duttweiler… - 1990 - eric.ed.gov
... in the culture of schooling. Disadvantaged African Americans, Native Americans,
and Latinos, in particular, historically have suffered from the cultural misalignment
of home, school, and community. The reform of educational ...

A Unit on Social Control for Three-and Four-Year Olds.

ET Keach Jr - 1970 - eric.ed.gov
... (Author/AWW). Abstractor: N/A. Reference Count: 0. Note: N/A. Identifiers: Social Control. Record
Type: Non-Journal. Level: 1 - Available on microfiche. ... ISBN: N/A. ISSN: N/A. Audiences: N/A.
Languages: N/A. Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Kindergarten. Direct Link ...

Challenging Myths of the Deficit Perspective: Honoring Children

D Volk… - Young Children, 2005 - eric.ed.gov
... They present evidence for the importance of looking closely and respectfully at interactions
among children and families to better understand their many rich literacy resources, and
they share insights from their research with Latino kindergartners. ...

Counselors Speak Out.

RC Nelson - Elementary School Guidance and Counseling, 1974 - eric.ed.gov
EJ097670 - Counselors Speak Out.

Developmental Minicourses.

S Miranda… - Journal of College Student Development, 1989 - eric.ed.gov
... for Behavior Disorders; The Social Competence of Latino Kindergartners and Growth
in Mathematical Understanding; Family and Cultural Influences on Low-Income Latino
Children's Adjustment; Designing Freshman Interest ...

[PDF] “Getting Ready for School:” A Preliminary Evaluation of a Parent-Focused School-Readiness Program

KG Noble, H Duch, ME Darvique, A Grundleger… - 2012 - needlab.cumc.columbia.edu
... School readiness, or the development of the cognitive, social, and emotional skills necessary
for ... Think about and discuss how to identify and discuss children's questions about Kindergarten. ...
Ninety- five percent of all participants self-identified as Hispanic or Latino, 91% spoke ...

School and home connections and children's kindergarten achievement gains: The mediating role of family involvement

C Galindo, SB Sheldon - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2011 - Elsevier
... like class plays, book nights, or family math nights; fairs or social events planned to ... race was
identified as White non-Latino – the reference group, Black non-Latino, Latino of any ... Additional
controls were age at kindergarten entry (continuous), whether the student was a second ...

Early Childhood Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, September 11, 1998. Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by US Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley.

RW Riley - 1998 - eric.ed.gov
... Early childhood education programs bridge the gap between home and kindergarten and
play an important role in the learning process. ... Early childhood educators, care providers,
and parents must consider this growth when developing programs. ...

&# 8220; Getting Ready for School: &# 8221; A Preliminary Evaluation of a Parent-Focused School-Readiness Program

KG Noble, H Duch, ME Darvique… - Child Development …, 2012 - hindawi.com
... Development, vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 815–829, 1993. C. Galindo and B. Fuller, “The social
competence of Latino kindergartners and growth in mathematical understanding,”
Developmental Psychology, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 579–592, 2010. M ...

Kindergarten Children

X Zhou, Y Wang, L Wang… - Early Child Development and Care, 2006 - eric.ed.gov
... Title: Kindergarten Children's Representation and Understanding of Written Number Symbols.
Full-Text Availability Options: ... Click on any of the links below to perform a new search. Title:
Kindergarten Children's Representation and Understanding of Written Number Symbols. ...

A Model of Home Learning Environment and Social Risk Factors in Relation to Children

MA Foster, R Lambert, M Abbott-Shim… - Early Childhood …, 2005 - eric.ed.gov
... Publication Date: 2005-0-00. Pages: 24. Pub Types: Journal Articles. Abstract: The quality of
the home environment is widely recognized as a strong contributor to young children's emergent
literacy and social competence and to their subsequent educational success. ...

[PDF] Emotionally Supportive Classroom Contexts for Young Latino Children in Rural California

L Reese, B Jensen… - calsa.org
... that are characteristic of emotionally supportive classroom contexts for young Latino children
in ... Competence and Classroom Interactions The social nature of cognitive growth and academic ...
quality of interactions in the classroom and the competencies (social, cognitive, affective ...

Formal Schooling for 5 Year Olds in New Zealand.

C Thornley - 1996 - eric.ed.gov
... in which demands of the national curriculum are balanced with attention to emotional needs and
social development. The article begins with a brief description of New Zealand's "National
Curriculum Framework" and points out the need for teacher competence in incorporating ...

Trends in Hispanic Academic Achievement Where Do We Go From Here?

CJ Ortiz, MA Valerio… - Journal of Hispanic Higher …, 2012 - jhh.sagepub.com
... Developmental Psychology, 46(3), 559-565. Galindo, C., & Fuller B. (2010). The social
competence of Latino kindergartners and growth in mathematical understanding.
Developmental Psychology, 46(3), 579-92. Gándara, P. (2004). ...

Mathematical Problem Solving Among Latina/o Kindergartners: An Analysis of Opportunities to Learn

EE Turner… - Journal of Latinos and Education, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
... “Early schooling and social stratification”. ... In this study, we focus on low-income, Latina/o
kindergarten students' opportunities to solve and discuss mathematical problems. ... with the
persistent achievement gaps noted above, shows how critical it is to focus on Latina/o students. ...

The development of competence in favorable and unfavorable environments: Lessons from research on successful children.

AS Masten… - American Psychologist; American …, 1998 - psycnet.apa.org
... Family processes and risk for externalizing behavior problems among African American and
Hispanic boys ... The early caregiver-child relationship and attention-deficit disorder with hyperactivity
in kindergarten: A prospective study ... Social competence as a developmental construct ...

Short-term effects of grade retention on the growth rate of Woodcock–Johnson III broad math and reading scores

W Wu, SG West… - Journal of school psychology, 2008 - Elsevier
... and LEP students fared worse following retention on reading and perceived competence, but
he ... to replicate this finding in a somewhat larger sample of Hispanic LEP students. ... Very little
research investigates whether children's social and behavioral adjustment in the classroom ...

What Makes Students Engaged in Learning? A Time-Use Study of Within-and Between-Individual Predictors of Emotional Engagement in Low-Performing High …

S Park, SD Holloway, A Arendtsz… - Journal of youth and …, 2011 - Springer
... prior achievement and engagement was mediated by a variety of task and social support variables ...
the sample (c00), and the coef- ficients of being a male (c01), being Latino (c02), being ... 9th grade
GPA (c04), person mean auton- omy(c05), person mean competence (c06), and ...

[BOOK] The Latino education crisis: The consequences of failed social policies

PC Gándara… - 2009 - books.google.com
... [but] in many ways the United States is doing serious damage to the social and economic fabric
of both nations." Immigration and ... For exam- ple, in a national sample of America's kindergartners,
African Ameri- can, Latino, and Native American children were found to be ...

Fine motor skills and mathematics achievement in East Asian American and European American kindergartners and first graders

Z Luo, PE Jose, CS Huntsinger… - British Journal of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
... The EUA sample included all children whose parents identified themselves as 'White,
non-Hispanic'. ... samples confirmed that EAA children had higher mathematics achievement at
kindergarten entry. However, the growth rates in mathematics were found to be equal under no ...

School readiness among low-income, Latino children attending family childcare versus centre-based care

A Ansari… - 2011 - Taylor & Francis
... 25. Galindo, C. and Fuller, B. 2010. The social competence of Latino kindergarteners
and growth in mathematical understanding. Developmental Psychology , 46(3):
579–592. [CrossRef], [PubMed] View all references). Further ...

Prediction of children's academic competence from their effortful control, relationships, and classroom participation.

C Valiente, K Lemery-Chalfant… - Journal of …, 2008 - psycnet.apa.org
... reported on an average of 12 children) reported on the teacher–child relationship, children's
social competence, and classroom participation. Children reported on their EC, the teacher–child
relationship, and their classroom participation. Dur- 1 We use Latino when describing ...

Improving the Numerical Understanding of Children From Low‐Income Families

RS Siegler - Child Development Perspectives, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
... Start centers, slightly more than half of whom were African American and the rest predominantly
non-Hispanic Whites. ... Social class and racial influences on early mathematical thinking. ... Re-visiting
the competence/performance debate in the acquisition of the counting principles. ...

[PDF] An examination of mathematics achievement and growth in a Midwestern urban school district: Implications for teachers and administrators

RM Capraro, JR Young, CW Lewis… - … Urban Mathematics …, 2009 - aggiestem.tamu.edu
... For example, entry mastery is associated with the effects of different degrees of language
competence on the influence of ... Furthermore, educational policy reform may enhance the learning
opportunities of Hispanic students. ... Cultural reproduction and social reproduction. ...

Effects of teachers' mathematical knowledge for teaching on student achievement

HC Hill, B Rowan… - American Educational Research …, 2005 - aer.sagepub.com
... knowledge, as measured via certification exams or tests of subject-matter competence, on student ...
schools in the sample were situated in many different policy and social envi- ronments. ... of the
teachers were female; 55% were White, 23% were Black, and 9% were Hispanic. ...

Beyond the ABC's and 123's: the effect of social competence on early academic achievement

HC Forster - 2012 - repository.library.georgetown.edu
... collection. Only participants for whom there is social competence data at school entry ... and Hispanic
(13.17%). The average SES for the sample is 0.001 (as measured by a ... more children in the sample
attending full-day kindergarten programs (55.81%) than half- ...

New look at a persistent problem: Inequality, mathematics achievement, and teaching

A Georges… - The Journal of Educational Research, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
... gains in both subtests, though how much students gained varied by social class, ethnicity ... at
kindergarten entry in each subtest, with low-SES, Black, and Latino students lagging ... performance
during the school year and the intervening summer between kindergarten and Grade 1 ...

Effects of a pre-kindergarten mathematics intervention: A randomized experiment

A Klein, P Starkey, D Clements… - Journal of Research on …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
... Beginning school competence: Minority and majority comparisons ... ethnic composition of the
teachers was 38% White, 33% African American, 13% Hispanic, 10% Asian ... children's health
and disability status, parent judgments of children's accomplishments and social skills, family ...

Does Computer Use Promote the Mathematical Proficiency of ELL Students?

S Kim… - Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2010 - Baywood
... It is imperative to find ways to promote the mathematical competence of ELL students, as ... variables
with one language group (ELLHomeCom, ELLComPurpose, and ELLComMath), and social class
(SES ... to perform better in math (Black: β = 28.163, p < .05; Hispanic: β = 5.347, p ...

[PDF] Kindergarten Readiness

B Enz, NJ Perry, HJ Yi, M LaCount, J Stamm… - 2003 - oyp.asu.edu
... development during the preschool years and outlines ways in which adults can support children's
growth in each ... as at home, the warmth and sensitivity of the child care provider enhances children's
social competence and improves outcomes in kindergarten and the ...

Kindergarten children's emotion competence as a predictor of their academic competence in first grade.

CJ Trentacosta… - Emotion, 2007 - psycnet.apa.org
... Ninety-one percent of the follow-up sample was African-American, 4% was Hispanic,
1% was White, and 3% was Biracial. ... Teachers also rated academic competence using
the Social Skills Rating System (SSRS; Gresham & Elliott, 1990). ...

[PDF] DRAFT-Situating Standards-Based Mathematics in Culturally and Linguistically Familiar Contexts: Mathematical Thinking in Spanish-Speaking First Graders

M Marshall - 2008 - cemela.math.arizona.edu
... Because research has found that many of these same children enter kindergarten and first grade ...
While some research has shown that indeed Spanish-speaking Latino students and ... in the
internalization and transformation of new ideas from the social to the individual ...

Teacher–child interactions and children's achievement trajectories across kindergarten and first grade.

TW Curby, SE Rimm-Kaufman… - Journal of Educational …, 2009 - psycnet.apa.org
... Competence at the start of kindergarten represents the crux of the achievement gap: Wide
individual ... come to school with limited levels of skills, abilities, and family social and economic ...
Of the kindergarten teachers, 35 were Caucasian and 1 was Hispanic; all were female. ...

A Prospective Study of Mexican American Adolescents' Academic Success: Considering Family and Individual Factors

MW Roosa, M O'Donnell, H Cham… - Journal of youth and …, 2011 - Springer
... success, and, if not, which one may be more useful for understanding the academic ... a southwestern
US metropolitan area that represented the economic, cultural, and social diversity of ... of those who
returned contact information were eligible for screening (eg, Latino) and 1,028 ...

The development of cognitive skills and gains in academic school readiness for children from low-income families.

JA Welsh, RL Nix, C Blair… - Journal of educational …, 2010 - psycnet.apa.org
... learning by supporting behavioral self-regulatory capacities and social competence (Blair, 2002;
C ... knowledge, estimation, and number pattern facility, predict later mathematical competence
in the ... Head Start classrooms in three Pennsylvania counties (14% Latino American, 30 ...

Classroom academic and social context: relationships among emergent literacy, behavioural functioning and teacher curriculum goals in kindergarten

GM Massetti… - Early Child Development and Care, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
... all references) demonstrated that disruptive behaviour and peer problems in kindergarten were
significantly associated with poor growth in reading ... Relations among emergent literacy skills,
behavior problems, and social competence in preschool children from low ...

Head start program quality: Examination of classroom quality and parent involvement in predicting children's vocabulary, literacy, and mathematics achievement …

X Wen, RJ Bulotsky-Shearer… - Early Childhood …, 2012 - Elsevier
... process quality) buffered the negative effects of authoritarian parenting on children's reading
competence. ... The study gathered comprehensive data on the cognitive, social, emotional, and
physical ... 39% of the sample children were African-American, 30% were Hispanic, and 24 ...

The importance of number sense to mathematics achievement in first and third grades

NC Jordan, J Glutting… - Learning and individual differences, 2010 - Elsevier
... number competence and remained there; and (c) those who started with low number competence
but made ... Mean kindergarten start age (SD), 5 years–6 months (4 months), 5 years–6 months
(4 ... refers to African-American (29%, n = 81), Asian (6%, n = 17), and Hispanic (17%, n ...

Psychological and demographic correlates of early academic skill development among American Indian and Alaska Native youth: a growth modeling study.

AK Marks… - Developmental psychology, 2007 - psycnet.apa.org
... many tribal groups, who as a function of shared ethnic background and social stratification may ...
reference groups of White children as well as African American and Hispanic children of ... are unique
to AIAN children or are shared among all children entering kindergarten in the ...

Urban students acquiring English and learning mathematics in the context of reform

WG Secada - Urban Education, 1996 - uex.sagepub.com
... But in my work, I have found that first-grade Hispanic bilingual children can solve many of ... Moreover,
I have found that competence in solving arith- metic word problems varies as a function of ... As
part of the concern for social goals, educators need to move somewhat beyond the ...

A longitudinal study of children's social behaviors and their causal relationship to reading growth

HJ Lim… - Asia Pacific Education Review, 2011 - Springer
... Children's social behavior and reading growth ... the US, sampling public and private schools offering
both full-day and part-day kindergarten programs, and ... came from diverse socioeconomic and
racial/ ethnic backgrounds such as White, African American, Hispanic, Asian/Pacific ...

Playing linear number board games—but not circular ones—improves low-income preschoolers' numerical understanding.

RS Siegler… - Journal of Educational Psychology; …, 2009 - psycnet.apa.org
... relating early and later reading proficiency, control of attention, and socioemotional competence. ...
overall math achievement test performance at all grade levels between kindergarten and fourth ...
African American, 61% were Caucasian, and 5% were Asian, Hispanic, biracial, or ...

[HTML] Who is retained in first grade? A psychosocial perspective

VL Willson… - The Elementary school journal, 2009 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... Children of Hispanic origin were individually administered a measure of English and Spanish
Language Proficiency (Woodcock & Muñoz-Sandoval ... Teacher social competence. ... Effects of
kindergarten retention policy on children's cognitive growth in reading and mathematics. ...

Kindergarten skills and fifth-grade achievement: Evidence from the ECLS-K

A Claessens, G Duncan… - Economics of Education Review, 2009 - Elsevier
... are just as important as the components that enhance linguistic and cognitive competence
(Shonkoff & ... Social skills, .220 ** (.009), .178 ** (.011), −.009 (.015), −.003 (.017), −.001 (.016),
.201 ** (.009), .186 ... 5 and 10 of Table 1 separately for white, black and Latino children, as well ...

[PDF] Behavior Problems in Learning Activities and Social Interactions in Head Start Classrooms and Early Reading, Mathematics, and Approaches to Learning

RJ Bulotsky-Shearer, V Fernandez… - School Psychology …, 2011 - nasponline.org
... Mathematics ability is also recognized as important to kindergarten readiness, but very few ... problem
behavior in peer interactions pre- dicted lower social competence (interactive peer play). ... children
were predominantly Af- rican American (69%), with 28% Latino, 4% Caucasian ...

Journal of Urban Mathematics Education, Vol 2, No 2 (2009)

RM Capraro, JR Young, CW Lewis… - … Urban Mathematics …, 2009 - ed-osprey.gsu.edu
... For example, entry mastery is associated with the effects of different degrees of language
competence on the influence of ... Furthermore, educational policy reform may enhance the learning
opportunities of Hispanic students. ... Cultural reproduction and social reproduction. ...

A longitudinal study of the social and academic competence of economically disadvantaged bilingual preschool children.

GV Oades-Sese, GB Esquivel, PK Kaliski… - 2011 - psycnet.apa.org
... For example, Bernard (2006) found kindergarten boys who lacked social competence and
emotional resilience demonstrated ... 2. Which profiles demonstrate social competence? ... the following
issues: (a) 8 children were removed because they were not of Hispanic background, (b ...

Investigating children's mathematics readiness

J Lee, MM Autry, J Fox… - Journal of Research in …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
... According to the results of this present study, Hispanic and Asian children scored ... evident that
these disadvantaged children still begin school with less competence in mathematics ... language,
social, physical, and emotional developmental domains) and their social/cultural context ...

Mediators of preschoolers' early mathematics concepts

AMB Austin, B Blevins‐Knabe, C Ota… - Early Child …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
... Children's cognitive and social competence in child‐care centers and family day‐care homes. ...
at least 13 hours each week and who would be attending kindergarten the following year. ... were
European‐American; 3.6% (four) were African American; 2.7% (three) Latino; 1.8% (two ...

Child Characteristics, Home Social‐Contextual Factors, and Children's Academic Peer Interaction Behaviors in Kindergarten

C Neitzel - The Elementary School Journal, 2009 - JSTOR
... to in studies of family influences have been students' attitudes or perceptions of competence
and grades ... The current study focused on the relative importance of social‐contextual features
of the home ... were white (96 white, 4 African American, 3 Asian American, 1 Latino, and 5 ...

[BOOK] In face of adversity: An ecological approach to understanding the resiliency of disadvantaged kindergarteners

MS Kasmin - 2009 - books.google.com
... 13 on children's health, social competence, behavior issues, and approaches to learning from
parents ... As previously mentioned social workers strongly endorse this perspective and decry a
narrow focus on academic skills in preparing children for kindergarten (Plevyak & ...

[PDF] DRAFT–DO NOT QUOTE OR CITE WITHOUT PERMISSION-DRAFT

EE Turner, S Celedón-Pattichis… - math.arizona.edu
... discipline of mathematics (Boaler, 2002b; Cobb & Hodge, 2002) and identities that imagine greater
competence in the future (Wenger, 1998). ... In summary, socio-cultural perspectives emphasize
the importance of language, social ... Problem Solving among Latino/a Kindergartners ...

Empowering children and teachers in the elementary mathematics classrooms of urban schools

PF Campbel - Urban Education, 1996 - uex.sagepub.com
... in the classroom is often influenced by that student's current level of mathematical competence. ...
each student has mathematical knowledge, no matter what economic or social setting is ... Three
of the predominantly minority schools serve White, Hispanic, Black, and Asian children ...

A longitudinal study exploring the relationship of representational levels of three aspects of preschool sociodramatic play and early academic skills

MF Hanline, S Milton… - Journal of Research in …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
... African American 8 (36) 4 (14) Hispanic 0 (0) 0 (0) Other 0 (0) 1 (3) ... Connolly, J., & Doyle, A. (1984).
Relation of social fantasy play to social competence in preschool- ers. ... Inter- relationships among
prereading and oral lan- guage skills in kindergartners from two social classes. ...

Investigation of dimensions of social-emotional classroom behavior and school readiness for low-income urban preschool children

J Fantuzzo, R Bulotsky-Shearer, P McDermott… - 2007 - repository.upenn.edu
... 31% being African-American, 31% being Hispanic, 27% being Caucasian, and 11% Asian and
other (USDHHS, 2005). ... Downer and Pianta (2006) found that children's early social competence
mediated the relationship between their early experiences and first grade academic ...

Kindergarten education and early childhood teacher education in the United States: Status at the start of the 21st Century

DP Fromberg - Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
... and half-day kindergarten schedules: Effects of achievement and classroom social behaviors. ...
The effects of different models of all-day kindergarten on children's developmental competence. ...
day program, compared with other ethnic groups (52% White, 49% Latino, 46% Asian ...

[PDF] … VARIATION IN SCHOOL READINESS, KINDERGARTEN THROUGH EIGHTH GRADE ACADEMIC ABILITY GROWTH, AND ADOLESCENT ACADEMIC SELF …

JR Hibel - 2009 - etda.libraries.psu.edu
... large-scale immigration from Asian and Latin American countries. As racial and ethnic ... Page 18.
7 experiences of children from various social groups. ... growth from kindergarten through eighth
grade, and academic self-concept prior to the transition to high school. ...

Factors predictive of mathematics achievement in kindergarten, first and third grades: An opportunity-propensity analysis

JP Byrnes… - Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2009 - Elsevier
... The demographic profile of the sample was as follows: 51% were female, 57% were White, 17%
were Hispanic, 14% were Black, 6% Asian, and 6% fell ... Level 4 content (kindergarten), 0.09, 0
to 5.00, Opportunity. ... Math competence (fall kindergarten), 21.44, 1 to 97.70, Propensity. ...

THE ROLE OF EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG LATINO DUAL LANGUAGE LEARNERS

TG Halle, DC Castro, X Franco… - Latina and Latino …, 2011 - books.google.com
... the early care and education environments that aim to support and prepare children for success
in kindergarten and beyond ... elements of high-quality early care and education most relevant for
the positive development of social-emotional skills among young Latino children ...

Relationship influences on teachers' perceptions of academic competence in academically at-risk minority and majority first grade students

JN Hughes, KA Gleason… - Journal of school psychology, 2005 - Elsevier
... Relationship influences on teachers' perceptions of academic competence in academically
at-risk ... curricular exposure, expectancy effects may be indirect through social-cognitive processes. ...
between student racial/ethnic classification (African American, Hispanic, and White ...

[PDF] The positive impact of social and emotional learning for kindergarten to eighth-grade students

J Payton, RP Weissberg, JA Durlak… - … for Academic, Social, …, 2008 - sd67.bc.ca
... Furthermore, large percentages of students lack social-emotional competence, believe their
teachers do ... Research conducted during the past few decades indicates that social and emotional
learning ... the impact of SEL programs for school children in kindergarten through eighth ...

Extending the research on the tests of early numeracy: Longitudinal analyses over two school years

SP Baglici, R Codding… - Assessment for Effective …, 2010 - aei.sagepub.com
... including the Iowa Basic Skills Composite (Hoover, Hieronymus, Frisbie, & Dunbar, 1993) and
the Academic Competence Scale of the Social Skills Rating ... students (as compared to non–African
American students) or Hispanic students (as compared to non-Hispanic students ...

Influences of School, Classroom, and Teacher Characteristics on Children's School Readiness

SA McCallan - 2010 - drum.lib.umd.edu
... from kindergarten through the spring of first grade (Denton & West, 2002). At the end ... African
American or Hispanic children by the spring of the first grade year, which is ... family income
to cognitive and social competence were mediated by structural ...

Fostering parental support for children's mathematical development: An intervention with Head Start families

P Starkey… - Early Education and Development, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
... This goal recognizes that an individual's competence in our increasingly technological society -
as students and ... There was one Latino family in each group; all others were African-American ...
that we offered a sequence of classes to a younger age group (pre-kindergarten children ...

[CITATION] Early Academic Outcomes and Social Skills of Latino Children: Exploring the Immigrant Paradox in a Young Cohort

EMN Kelley - 2010 - Brandeis University

[PDF] Children's self-report about their social-emotional development from third to fifth grade: Findings from the ECLS-K

J Walston… - air.org
... NOTE: Perceived competence and interest scores are from the Self-Description Questionnaire
(SDQ). ... of 2007, the important links between cognitive growth and student's social-emotional self- ...
Child's race/ethnicity White, non-Hispanic 3.0 3.0 0.0 1.9 1.8 -0.1 2.1 1.9 -0.1 ...

[PDF] CHILD'S LANGUAGE AND ITS EFFECTS ON SOCIAL EMOTIONAL SKILLS OF KINDERGARTEN CHILDREN IN JORDAN

R Haroun… - Education, Economy & Society Paris 20-23 …, 2011 - analytrics.org
... s emotions is related to how people in their social context evaluate their social competence. ... deal
with a lack of funding, preparation for college, and social and psychological ... In the Asian American,
African American, American Indian, and Latino American communities faith ...

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
... Hispanic parents enroll their children in centers at a rate 23% below the rate for Black children,
and 11 ... (2004) found positive effects on the social-emotional and ... NCES field staff conducted
one-on-one child assessments, in the fall of kindergarten, to measure reading and ...

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