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Preschool Experience in 10 Countries: Cognitive and Language Performance at Age 7
Available from: ScienceDirect
Publication: Early Childhood Research Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 3
Date: 2006
Pages: 313-331
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Abstract/Notes: The IEA Preprimary Project is a longitudinal, cross-national study of preprimary care and education designed to identify how process and structural characteristics of the settings children attended at age 4 are related to their age-7 cognitive and language performance. Investigators collaborated to develop common instruments to measure family background, teachers’ characteristics, setting structural characteristics, experiences of children in settings, and children’s developmental status. Data from 10 countries are included in the analysis; in most countries, the sample of settings is representative of preprimary settings in that country. For the analysis, a 3-level hierarchical linear model was employed that allowed decomposition of variation of child outcomes into three parts—variation among children within settings, among settings within countries, and among countries. Four findings are consistent across all of the countries included. Age-7 language improves as teachers’ number of years of full-time schooling increases and the predominant type of activity teachers propose in settings is free choice rather than personal/social. Age-7 cognitive performance improves as children spend less time in whole group activities and the variety of equipment and materials available increases. There were also a number of findings that varied across countries depending on particular country characteristics. The findings support child-initiated activities and small group activities and are consistent with developmentally appropriate practices promoting active learning.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2006.07.007
ISSN: 0885-2006, 1873-7706
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Montessori and Jerome W. Berryman: Work, play, religious education, and the art of using the Christian language system
Available from: Taylor and Francis Online
Publication: British Journal of Religious Education, vol. 33, no. 3
Date: 2011
Pages: 341-353
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Amid Budget Shortfall, a Visionary Loses His School [InterCultura Montessori Foreign Language School, Oak Park, Illinois]
Publication: Public School Montessorian, vol. 17, no. 2
Date: Winter 2005
Pages: 1
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
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The Effects of Four Programs of Classroom Intervention on the Intellectual and Language Development of Four-Year-Old Children
Available from: Wiley Online Library
Publication: American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, vol. 40, no. 1
Date: 1970
Pages: 58-76
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Abstract/Notes: Differential effects of four preschool programs were evaluated through pre‐and post‐batteries of standardized tests. The interventions represent levels of structure along a continuum from the traditional to the highly structured preschool. Results from all instruments differentiated among the programs, and clearly favored the highly structured preschool.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-0025.1970.tb00679.x
ISSN: 0002-9432, 1939-0025
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Editorial: A Place for Basal Readers in the Montessori Language Program
Available from: University of Connecticut Libraries - American Montessori Society Records
Publication: The Constructive Triangle (1974-1989), vol. 16, no. 2
Date: Spring 1989
Pages: 4
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Language: English
ISSN: 0010-700X
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Heads of Schools Section: Language with Everything
Available from: University of Connecticut Libraries - American Montessori Society Records
Publication: The Constructive Triangle (1974-1989), vol. 16, no. 1
Date: Winter 1989
Pages: 14–15, 17–19
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Language: English
ISSN: 0010-700X
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Montessorians in the Classroom, Part 1: French as a Second Language
Available from: University of Connecticut Libraries - American Montessori Society Records
Publication: The Constructive Triangle (1974-1989), vol. 12, no. 3
Date: Summer 1985
Pages: 9–10
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Language: English
ISSN: 0010-700X
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Lecture May 29, 1923 [Written language]
Available from: University of Connecticut Libraries - American Montessori Society Records
Publication: The Constructive Triangle (1974-1989), vol. 12, no. 4
Date: Fall 1985
Pages: 14–17
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Abstract/Notes: From E.M. Standing archives.
Language: English
ISSN: 0010-700X
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First Words: Anecdotal Observations of Early Expressive Language in a Classroom Setting
Available from: University of Connecticut Libraries - American Montessori Society Records
Publication: The Constructive Triangle (1974-1989), vol. 11, no. 3
Date: Summer 1984
Pages: 4–11, 13
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Language: English
ISSN: 0010-700X
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The Matching Game [Questions and answers: Making language materials; classroom storage; newsletters]
Available from: University of Connecticut Libraries - American Montessori Society Records
Publication: The Constructive Triangle (1974-1989), vol. 10, no. 3
Date: Summer 1983
Pages: 27
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Language: English
ISSN: 0010-700X