Browsing OSU - Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Subject "early childhood"
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Adaptation and validation of a scale for measuring self-compassion in early childhood
(2020-07)The overarching goal of this research was to adapt and validate a scale for measuring self-compassion in early childhood. The initial 23-item scale was adapted from Neff's (2003a) original self-compassion scale and asked ... -
Building Community Collaboratives to Serve Families with Young Children
(Oklahoma State University, 2006-05-01)The purpose of this study was to focus on data collected from Stillwater Area Success By 6� in the year 2000, 2003 and 2005. Data were gathered from a multiplicity of sources in the Stillwater community and were employed ... -
Early Childhood Professional Development and Classroom Quality in Preschool Classrooms
(Oklahoma State University, 2006-05-01)The purpose of this study was to examine the association between different types of early childhood professional development and child care quality in preschool classrooms. Participants in the study were preschool teachers ... -
Early Childhood Teachers' Self-efficacy Toward Teaching Science: Outcomes of Professional Development
(Oklahoma State University, 2012-07-01)The teaching of science in the early childhood classrooms has slowly been decreasing. As the years have passed, the subject of science has been put on the backburner while mathematics and language arts have taken center ... -
Effect of classroom management strategies on math fluency growth rate
(2014-05)A classroom management intervention consisting of providing effective commands and behavior-specific praise statements was implemented in four first-grade general education classrooms. The effects of this intervention on ... -
Family and Child Care Influences on Parent Involvement and Child Literacy Outcomes
(Oklahoma State University, 2007-05-01)The purpose of this study was to examine the efficacy of Walker et al.'s (2005) parent involvement model for explaining literacy outcomes for preschoolers by including variables that represent all components of this model. ...