This article reviews professional development efforts that aim to improve intercultural
competences of in-service and pre-service teachers working in primary and early childhood …

Voor de derde keer op rij presenteert het consortium van de Universiteit van Utrecht en Sardes
haar bevindingen over de kwaliteit van de kinderopvang in Nederland. Met de Landelijke …

Managementsamenvatting In de BOPO-onderzoekslijn Sociale en institutionele context van
scholen is in de periode 2005-2008 zowel specifiek onderzoek naar effectiviteit van het …

ABSTRACTS In tnis prospective study home literacy is considered a multifaceted phenomenon
consisting of a frequency or exposure facet (opportunity), an instruction quality facet, a …

This study investigated the relationships between home language learning activities and
vocabulary in a sample of monolingual native Dutch (n = 58) and bilingual immigrant Moroccan…

Background. The relationship between executive functions and mathematical skills has
been studied extensively, but results are inconclusive, and how this relationship evolves …

Specific effects of home literacy on the development of word decoding and reading
comprehension from first through third grade were examined in an ethnically and social–…

There is increasing awareness that the physical environment plays a critical role in young
children's cognitive and social development, by offering opportunities for exploration and …

For learning math, non-symbolic quantity skills, symbolic skills and the mapping between
number symbols and non-symbolic quantities are all important precursors. Little is known, …

The relationship between structural quality and process quality in early childhood education
and care (ECEC) has been addressed in several studies. However, the findings are not …