Impacts of a prekindergarten program on children's mathematics, language, literacy, executive function, and emotional skills

Child Development

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2112-2130

  Weiland, Christina ^a   Yoshikawa, Hirokazu ^a  

^a HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CURRICULUM; EARLY CHILDHOOD INTERVENTION; EMOTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; TEACHING; UNITED STATES;

ACHIEVEMENT; BOSTON; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CURRICULUM; EARLY INTERVENTION (EDUCATION); EMOTIONS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; TEACHING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84887392023     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12099     Document Type: Article

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