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Kardanova, E. Yu.; Panasenko, E. V.; Braginets, E. I. – Russian Education & Society, 2018
The article describes how the iPIPS instrument was used to measure the school-entry ability of first-graders and their academic progress over the course of their first year in school in the city of Sevastopol. This study provided a source of objective information for making considered policy decisions in the education sector. We present the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Grade 1
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Konobeeva, E. A. – Russian Education & Society, 2016
This article investigates the organizational form of kindergarten through a particular case study. The article seeks to answer the question: how does kindergarten reconcile emotionality with formal rules and regulations, and how does this affect the structure of kindergarten as an organization? The features of bureaucratic and feminist…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Case Studies, Administrative Organization
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Kuzeva, O. A.; Romanova, A. A.; Korneev, A. A.; Akhutina, T. V. – Russian Education & Society, 2015
We present the results of a longitudinal study of the formation of graphomotor skills in elementary school children between the ages of seven and nine (students in the first and second grades). Patterns in how the skills under investigation develop in normal children and those with learning disabilities were revealed using a computerized survey of…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Skill Development, Psychomotor Skills, Writing (Composition)
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Zuckerman, G. A.; Obukhova, O. L. – Russian Education & Society, 2015
D. Elkonin's thesis that thinking is much more closely related to writing than to oral speech formed the basis of our three-year formative experiment at the elementary school level. In order to test this idea, second-graders through fourth-graders were given a few assignments in which they were asked to exchange thoughts in writing with their…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Skill Development, Elementary School Students, Russian
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Ballaeva, E. A. – Russian Education and Society, 2014
An insufficient number of affordable places in Russia's preschool system is affecting the educational development of many young children and reducing the number of mothers who could be working in the economy.
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Nontraditional Education, Foreign Countries, Access to Education
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Avraamova, E. M. – Russian Education and Society, 2014
Recent changes to the budgetary basis of schools in Russia has received a mixed response from parents, with a variety of views on whether the quality of education is being improved. Reductions in state support for preschool education raises questions about the ability of less affluent parents to prepare their children for first grade. Perhaps more…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Foreign Countries, Budgets