Preschool experience in 10 countries: Cognitive and language performance at age 7

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 313-331

  Montie, Jeanne E ^a   Xiang, Zongping ^a   Schweinhart, Lawrence J ^a  

^a High Scope Educational Research Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

Child initiated activities; Cognitive; International; Longitudinal; Preschool

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747838035     PISSN: 08852006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2006.07.007     Document Type: Article

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