Practice and policy in early childhood education rely heavily on professional expertise and
guidelines developed from research on early care and education (ECE) quality, but these …

This article presents the design, national standardization, and validation of the Preschool
Learning Behaviors Scale (McDermott, Green, Francis, & Stott, 2000). A normative sample …

Understanding human intelligence and its development has been a major pursuit of
psychologists for more than a century. This article describes the status of controversies …

Standardized measures of cognitive ability, academic achievement, classroom learning
behavior, and school social-emotional adjustment were administered for a nationally …

This study assesses the unique and complementary ability of childhood intelligence and
learning-related behavior to explain variation in achievement outcomes. Teacher-observed …

This article presents the design, nationwide standardization, and validation of the Learning
Behaviors Scale (LBS), a device that assesses differential patterns of classroom learning. A …

Examines the recent movement toward enrolling 4-yr-olds in academic programs. The
research base and political forces that guided the direction of the movement are considered …

Conventional approaches to early assessment and intervention for young school children
focus primarily upon notions of general intelligence, academic readiness, personality, and …

Early assessment programs frequently rely on intelligence tests for making predictions
regarding children's future school performance. Unfortunately, IQ scores provide little …

Points out that the past 2 decades of early childhood (ECH) intervention programs have
demonstrated the potentially strong linkages between research, public policies, and …