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Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Selecting a large and diverse sample of 5–6-year-old preschool children (179 boys and 174 girls; Mage = 70.03 months, SDage = 3.43), we aimed to extend previous findings on variability in children’s home math environment (i.e., home math activities ...
Laure De Keyser +6 more
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Education Sciences, 2021 Most studies on the subject have investigated relations between home math activities and child math skills, without paying much attention to the specific skills that such activities foster and their alignment with children’s math assessments. The present
Diana Leyva +2 more
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Parents' views and experiences of the informal and formal home numeracy environment
Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, 2017 Abstract At school entry, it is evident that children vary in their literacy and numeracy skills, suggesting that the home environment in which children live and grow may influence a child's learning and development. Semi-structured interviews with parents (N = 8), of children aged between 37 months and 59 months (M = 47.5 months), were used to ...
Abbie Cahoon +2 more
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Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2023 AbstractBackgroundA strong knowledge of mathematics, beginning at the elementary level, is critical for participation in today's complex world. The home may be one way to facilitate individualized mathematics instruction, given that children spend more time at home than in an academic institution.
Sabrina Shajeen Alam, Adam Kenneth Dubé
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Developing and validating a measure of parental knowledge about early math development
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Parents’ knowledge about the math skills that most preschool-aged children can develop might be an important component of the Home Math Environment (HME) as it might shape their math beliefs and efforts to support their preschoolers’ math development ...
Ashli-Ann Douglas +2 more
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Cogent EducationTeachers’ well-being and a conducive home learning environment play a pivotal role in improving children learning outcomes, but little is known about this in a humanitarian setting. This article assesses the role of teachers’ well-being and home learning
Conrad Murendo +9 more
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Growing up in rural Malawi: dilemmas of childhood [PDF]
, 2010 Rural Malawi is a place where families are generally poor socio-economically. In this chapter we discuss childhood development in a typical Malawian rural setting by focusing on the overall challenges facing families with young children, and we consider ...
Ellis, Sue, Kholowa, Foster
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SkillSum: basic skills screening with personalised, computer-generated feedback [PDF]
, 2008 We report on our experiences in developing and evaluating a system that provided formative assessment of basic skills and automatically generated personalised feedback reports for 16-19 year-old users.
Reiter, Ehud, Williams, Sandra
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Frontiers in Education, 2019 This study aimed to explore unique environmental factors impacting differential academic trajectories among Australian school students. Monozygotic (MZ) twin pairs who were consistently discordant in results of nationwide standardized tests of reading ...
Sally A. Larsen +6 more
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Supporting children with challenging behaviour through a nurture group approach [PDF]
, 2011 This survey examines the use of nurture groups and related provision in a small sample of 29 infant, first and primary schools. Nurture groups are small, structured teaching groups for pupils showing signs of behavioural, social or emotional difficulties,
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