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50 Years of ERIC
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Mercer, Sterett H.; Harpole, Lauren Lestremau; Mitchell, Rachel R.; McLemore, Chandler; Hardy, Christina – School Psychology Quarterly, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of probe variability on the ability to replicate results in brief experimental analysis (BEA) of reading. In the first phase of the study, 41 first- and second- grade students completed 16 oral reading fluency probes. Calculations of probe difficulty were used to identify Low and High Variability…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3
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Curby, Timothy W.; Rudasill, Kathleen Moritz; Edwards, Taylor; Perez-Edgar, Koraly – School Psychology Quarterly, 2011
The present study examines the moderating role first grade classroom quality may have on the relations between children's difficult temperament (assessed in infancy) and their academic and social outcomes in early elementary school (first grade). Using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's Study of Early Child…
Descriptors: Child Health, Risk, Personality, Grade 1
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Petersen-Brown, Shawna; Burns, Matthew K. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2011
The current study investigates the effect of adding a semantic component, in the form of vocabulary, to the incremental rehearsal (IR) procedure. Sixty-one second- and third-grade students in a suburban elementary school were randomly assigned to one of two conditions: IR or IR with vocabulary. Each participant was taught seven previously unknown…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Grade 1, Grade 3, Reading Comprehension
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Clemens, Nathan H.; Shapiro, Edward S.; Thoemmes, Felix – School Psychology Quarterly, 2011
This study investigated the accuracy of several early literacy measures that have been used in research and practice for first grade reading screening. A set of measures, Word Identification Fluency (WIF), Letter Naming Fluency, Phoneme Segmentation Fluency, and Nonsense Word Fluency, were administered as screening measures with 138 first grade…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Grade 1, Reading Skills, Screening Tests
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Reynolds, Matthew R.; Sander, Janay B.; Irvin, Matthew J. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2010
The trajectories of internalizing and interpersonal behaviors from kindergarten through fifth grade were studied using univariate and bivariate latent curve models. Internalizing behaviors demonstrated a small, yet statistically significant, linear increase over time, while interpersonal behaviors showed a small, yet statistically significant,…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Antisocial Behavior, Elementary School Students, Age Differences
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Hooper, Stephen R.; Roberts, Joanne E.; Nelson, Lauren; Zeisel, Susan; Kasambira Fannin, Danai – School Psychology Quarterly, 2010
This study examined the preschool predictors of elementary school narrative writing skills. The sample included 65 typically developing African American children, ranging in age from 5.0 to 5.5 years, and was 44.6% male. Targeted preschool predictors included measures of phonological processing, core language abilities, prereading skills, and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, African American Children, Beginning Reading, Kindergarten
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Bradshaw, Catherine P.; Buckley, Jacquelyn A.; Ialongo, Nicholas S. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2008
Although elementary schools provide an opportunity for early identification and treatment of academic and psychological problems, relatively little is known about the types of symptoms being addressed in schools. Latent profile analysis on data from 678 urban first graders yielded 3 classes of children: nonsymptomatic (NS), internalizers and…
Descriptors: Urban Youth, Elementary School Students, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Identification
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Begeny, John C.; Eckert, Tanya L.; Montarello, Staci A.; Storie, Michelle S. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2008
Teacher perceptions about students' academic abilities are important for several reasons (e.g., instructional decision making, special education entitlement decisions). Not surprisingly, researchers have investigated the accuracy of teachers' decisions. Although some data reveal that teachers are relatively good judges of academic performance,…
Descriptors: Suburban Schools, Student Attitudes, Reading Fluency, Program Effectiveness
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Anhalt, Karla; Telzrow, Cathy F.; Brown, Courtney L. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2007
An emerging literature suggests that maternal distress during the prenatal and perinatal period may adversely affect offspring development. The association between maternal stress and emotional status in the perinatal period (defined as 1 month after birth) and adjustment of first-grade children was examined in 948 mother-child dyads from the…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Child Behavior, Check Lists, Depression (Psychology)
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Hill, Crystal R.; Hughes, Jan N. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2007
This study examined the factor structure of the parent and teacher versions of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ; R. Goodman, 1997) with a sample of first-grade children at risk for educational failure. The 5-factor model previously found in studies using exploratory factor analysis was fit to the data for both parent and teacher…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Parents, Ethnic Groups, Test Validity
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Trentacosta, Christopher J.; Izard, Carroll E.; Mostow, Allison J.; Fine, Sarah E. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2006
The current study examined the relations between two aspects of emotional competence--emotion knowledge and emotion expression, and children's attentional competence during one school year. Participants were 263 first- and second-grade students at two rural elementary schools. A multiple regression analysis showed that emotion knowledge predicted…
Descriptors: Competence, Affective Behavior, Psychological Patterns, Rural Schools
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Resetar, Jennifer L.; Noell, George H.; Pellegrin, Angie L. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2006
This study investigated the efficacy of a method of parent training and parent reading tutoring that built on past research. Parents of five first-grade children who were reading below grade level participated. Parents were trained to implement a tutoring procedure that included modeling, practice, phonics, fluency building, accuracy building,…
Descriptors: Parents as Teachers, Tutor Training, Reading Instruction, Grade 1