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Riley, Jeni; Burrell, Andrew – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2007
This paper discusses a micro-study within an intervention project, conducted in four London primary schools, to enhance the spoken language skills of reception children. There were 60 children in each of the intervention and comparison groups. The focus here is to explore a classroom assessment of young children's oral narrative skills. Effective…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Foreign Countries, Language Skills, Intervention
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Wylie, Cathy; Thompson, Jean – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2003
The longitudinal Competent Children Project in New Zealand examined contributions of early childhood education to children's competencies at age 10. The study found that children had higher average scores if they had three of more years of early childhood education. The quality of their final early childhood centers, particularly related to…
Descriptors: Children, Competence, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality