Associations between classroom quality and children's vocabulary and executive function skills in an urban public prekindergarten program

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 199-209

  Weiland, Christina ^a   Ulvestad, Kchersti ^a   Sachs, Jason ^b   Yoshikawa, Hirokazu ^a  

^a HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

^b Boston Public Schools ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Classroom quality; Executive function; Receptive vocabulary

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873839869     PISSN: 08852006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2012.12.002     Document Type: Article

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