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  • Supporting children who struggle with self-regulation : the role of early family risk and child care quality

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    Pratt, Megan E.
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    Children's early self-regulation skills have long-term implications for a variety of academic, social, and health outcomes. Unfortunately, children facing multiple family risk factors (e.g., harsh parenting, economic disadvantage) are more likely to struggle with early self-regulation. Despite early disparities in self-regulation, promising intervention evidence suggests that high quality prekindergarten experiences...
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    Dissertation
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    differences in children’s early self-regulation, with children characterized by the profile including high

  • Temperamental reactivity and children's social competence

    Creator:
    Nolen-Morse, Jessica M.
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    The current study examined relations between temperamental reactivity at 6 months and social competence in first grade, including if emotion regulation at 54 months played a role as mediator and/or moderator between temperamental reactivity and social competence in first grade. Previous studies have shown that children who are high on...
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    Masters Thesis
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    the classroom (Gresham & Elliott, 1990). Children exhibit self-control in conflict situations, when

  • Moving Towards Academic Success and Life Long Learning

    Creator:
    Becker, Derek R.
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    Early learning skills, such as executive function (EF), are a key component of healthy development and predict long-term academic success. Yet many children are entering kindergarten without the necessary skills (including EF) that are needed to set them on a successful learning trajectory. Early prekindergarten classrooms that encourage a high...
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    Dissertation
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    Intensity, Executive Function, and Academic Achievement in Grade School Children manuscript

  • Contribution of physical education to the overall physical activity behavior of children

    Creator:
    Wilson, Wesley J.
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    The benefits of physical activity (PA) are well established (USDDHS, 2008). Concern over the high rate of childhood obesity, however, has highlighted the emphasis of PA. Yet, children and adolescents are not obtaining the recommended amount of PA (CDC, 2011). Physical education (PE) has been recognized as an important source...
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    Masters Thesis
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    given the 30 minute length of PE classes. In addition, children did not make up MVPA on non-PE days

  • The Effects of Video Modeling on Test of Gross Motor Development-3 Performance among Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Creator:
    Case, Layne
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    Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have been reported to have motor skill delays and deficits. However, there have been challenges to these findings on whether these deficits are due to lack of movement skills or inaccurate assessment methods. Due to relative strengths in processing visual stimuli as opposed to...
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    successful among children with ASD is video modeling. Video modeling has been shown in the research to