Variation in children's classroom engagement throughout a day in preschool: Relations to classroom and child factors

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 210-220

  Vitiello, Virginia E ^a,b   Booren, Leslie M ^a   Downer, Jason T ^a   Williford, Amanda P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b Teachstone Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity settings; Peer relationships; Preschool; Task engagement; Teacher child relationships

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857561956     PISSN: 08852006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2011.08.005     Document Type: Article

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