Low-income children’s readiness for group-based learning at age 3 and prekindergarten outcomes at age 5

Although 3-year-olds in the United States may attend prekindergarten prior to formal school entry in kindergarten, few investigations focus on the socioemotional foundations of classroom learning at age 3 and their relationship to later achievement. This study examined the relationship between age 3 readiness for group-based learning, modeled as the latent constructs, effortful control and social communication, and age 5 classroom adjustment and pre-academic outcomes. Data from the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project in the United States ( n = 797) included observations, direct assessment, and examiner and teacher report. Children’s effortful control predicted classroom adjustment and their social communication predicted pre-academic outcomes. Readiness for group-based learning provides a way to describe key constructs of early skill development and a framework to support children’s classroom learning. Implications include promoting parents’ and educators’ capacities to support early developmental foundations for later adjustment and learning by fostering infants’ and toddlers’ effortful control and social communication. Efforts to support these skills simultaneously across diverse experiences in the home and classroom by focusing on children’s individual needs may prove advantageous.

Relationship between classroom social goal structures, gender, and social outcomes in Japanese elementary school children

This study examines the interaction between gender and classroom social goal structures and the impact they have on children's prosocial behaviors and classroom adjustment. Specifically, classroom social goal structures (consisting of prosocial and compliance goal structure) are the degree to which focal social goals are presented in classrooms. Numerous previous studies have tested the gender differences in social outcomes; however, the results of such past studies have been mixed, as some detected gender differences while others did not. This suggests the existence of moderator variables. Consequently, in this research, we focused on classroom-level moderators in the relationship between gender and social outcomes. We analysed a sample of 3,609 Japanese public elementary school children from 114 classrooms, and we detected the presence of cross-level interactions and found that classroom social goal structures can promote or degrade boys' social outcomes.

Warmup do just in time teaching em ensino de pós-graduação

RESUMO Objetivo: descrever o uso do Warmup, no método Just in Time Teaching, com base em experiência vivenciada em seminário de disciplina do mestrado. Método: estudo qualitativo, descritivo, do tipo relato de experiência, focado na contribuição do Warmup, componente do método Just in Time Teaching, no planejamento e na execução de seminário em disciplina do mestrado em Enfermagem com uma turma de 11 alunos. Resultados: descreveram-se as experiências sobre as respostas ao Warmup e influências no ajuste de aula; o Warmup - possibilidades e limites da experiência. Analisaram-se as respostas dos alunos e identificaram-se respostas poucos profundas e um conhecimento primário. Conclusão: com o Warmup, oportunizaram-se, aos alunos, o desenvolvimento, o alcance da máxima do conhecimento, o fortalecimento de sua formação profissional e o aperfeiçoamento do conhecimento prévio e desenvolveram-se as capacidades necessárias para a atuação nas áreas da Enfermagem de uma maneira crítica, reflexiva e criativa. Descritores: Metodologia; Educação em Enfermagem; Warmup; Estratégias; Tecnologia da Informação; Informática em Enfermagem.ABSTRACTObjective: to describe the use of Warmup in the Just in Time Teaching method, based on experience in a master's degree seminar. Method: a qualitative, descriptive, experience-based study focused on the contribution of Warmup, a component of the Just in Time Teaching method, in the planning and execution of a seminar on the discipline of the Master's Degree in Nursing with a class of 11 students. Results: experiments were described on responses to Warmup and influences on classroom adjustment; the Warmup - possibilities and limits of experience. The responses of the students were analyzed and the answers were identified as shallow answers and a primary knowledge. Conclusion: with the Warmup, the students were given the opportunity to develop, reach the maximum of knowledge, strengthen their professional training and improve their prior knowledge, and developed the necessary skills to perform in the areas of Nursing a critical, reflective and creative way. Descriptors: Methodology; Nursing Education; Warmup; Strategies; Information Technology; Informatics in Nursing.RESUMENObjetivo: describir el uso del Warmup, en el método Just in Time Teaching, con base en la experiencia vivida durante el seminario de asignatura de la maestría. Método: estudio cualitativo, descriptivo, del tipo relato de experiencia enfocado en la contribución del Warmup, componente del método Just in Time Teaching, en la planificación y en la ejecución de seminario en asignatura del máster en Enfermería con un grupo de 11 alumnos. Resultados: se describieron las experiencias, sobre las respuestas Warmup e influencias en el ajuste de la clase; el Warmup - posibilidades y límites de la experiencia. Se analizaron las respuestas de los alumnos y se identificaron respuestas poco profundas y un conocimiento primario. Conclusión: con el Warmup, se proporcionaron a los alumnos, el alcance, el desarrollo de la máxima del conocimiento, el fortalecimiento de su formación profesional y el perfeccionamiento del conocimiento primario y se desarrollaron las capacidades necesarias para la actuación en las áreas de la Enfermería de una manera crítica, reflexiva, reflexiva y creativa. Descriptores: Metodología; Educación en Enfermería; Warmup; Las estrategias; Tecnología de la Informacion; Informática en Enfermería.

Trajectories of emotional–behavioral difficulty and academic competence: A 6-year, person-centered, prospective study of affluent suburban adolescents

This longitudinal study of affluent suburban youth (N = 319) tracked from 6th to 12th grade is parsed into two segments examining prospective associations concerning emotional–behavioral difficulties and academic achievement. In Part 1 of the investigation, markers of emotional–behavioral difficulty were used to cluster participants during 6th grade. Generalized estimating equations were then used to document between-cluster differences in academic competence from 6th to 12th grade. In Part 2 of the study, indicators of academic competence were used to cluster the same students during 6th grade, and generalized estimating equations were used to document between-cluster differences in emotional–behavioral difficulty from 6th to 12th grade. The results from Part 1 indicated that patterns of emotional–behavioral difficulty during 6th grade were concurrently associated with poorer grades and classroom adjustment with some group differences in the rate of change in classroom adjustment over time. In Part 2, patterns of academic competence during 6th grade were concurrently associated with less emotional–behavioral difficulty and some group differences in the rate of change in specific forms of emotional–behavioral difficulty over time. These results suggest that the youth sampled appeared relatively well adjusted and any emotional–behavioral–achievement difficulty that was evident at the start of middle school was sustained through the end of high school.