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Prior, Margot; Bavin, Edith; Ong, Ben – Educational Psychology, 2011
This paper reports on school readiness (SR) and its predictors in five- to six-year-old children from a prospective, longitudinal study of children from eight months to seven years (the Early Language in Victoria Study--ELVS). The ELVS children came from a representative sample of children recruited though the State Government Infant and Child…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Language Impairments, Child Language, Phonemic Awareness
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Patel, Pooja; Canobi, Katherine Helen – Educational Psychology, 2010
Preschoolers' conceptual understanding and procedural skills were examined so as to explore the role of number-words and concept-procedure interactions in their additional knowledge. Eighteen three- to four-year-olds and 24 four- to five-year-olds judged commutativity and associativity principles and solved two-term problems involving number words…
Descriptors: Numbers, Word Problems (Mathematics), Problem Solving, Number Concepts
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Howell, Sally Clare; Kemp, Coral Rae – Educational Psychology, 2010
Components of early number sense, as identified in two Delphi studies and in the number sense literature related to mathematics difficulties, were assessed for 176 children in preschools and childcare centres across one local government area in Sydney, Australia, using tasks or modifications of tasks reported in the number sense literature. In…
Descriptors: Females, Foreign Countries, Local Government, Gender Differences