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Rhoad-Drogalis, Anna; Sawyer, Brook E.; Justice, Laura M.; O'Connell, Ann A. – Early Education and Development, 2018
Research Findings: This study reports on the dimensionality and validation of the Preschool Learning Behaviors Scale (PLBS) for use in a sample of preschool children in early childhood special education classrooms. The PLBS is a teacher-report instrument that characterizes children's approaches to learning. The sample included 600 preschool-age…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, Special Education, Student Behavior
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Li, Jian; O'Connell, Ann A. – Journal of Educational Research, 2012
The authors investigated children's self-reported high-calorie food intake in Grade 5 and its relationship to trends in obesity status and academic achievement over the first 6 years of school. They used 3-level hierarchical linear models in the large-scale database (the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study--Kindergarten Cohort). Findings indicated…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Food, Obesity, Grade 5
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McCoach, D. Betsy; O'Connell, Ann A.; Reis, Sally M.; Levitt, Heather A. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2006
Using the first 4 waves of data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten cohort (ECLS-K), this piecewise 3-level (time-student-school) growth-curve model provides a portrait of students' reading growth over the first 2 years of school. On average, students make much greater reading gains in 1st grade than they do in kindergarten.…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Reading Improvement, Grade 1, Causal Models