Shared picture book reading interventions for child language development: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Dowdall et al. (2020)
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Less screen time
- Collaborative artmaking with young children supports co-existence, cooperative play, and conflict resolution.
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- Exploring the Benefits of Doll Play Through Neuroscience
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- Vision, Visual-Information Processing, and Academic Performance Among Seventh-Grade Schoolchildren: A More Significant Relationship Than We Thought?
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- Screen media are associated with fine motor skill development in preschool children
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- Children's sensorimotor development in relation to screen-media usage: A two-year longitudinal study
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- Associations Between Screen-Based Media Use and Brain White Matter Integrity in Preschool-Aged Children
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- Assessing the Impact of Screen Time on the Motor Development of Children: A Systematic Review
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- Differences between preschool children using tablets and non-tablets in visual perception and fine motor skills
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- Effect of Screen Time on the Development of Fine Motor, Language, and Social Skills in Children Aged 1 to 6 Years
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- The Importance of Cursive Handwriting Over Typewriting for Learning in the Classroom: A High-Density EEG Study of 12-Year-Old Children and Young Adults
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- Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity: a high-density EEG study with implications for the classroom
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- Relationship between screen-time and hand function, play and sensory processing in children without disabilities aged 4-7 years: A exploratory study
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- 62M tonnes of e-waste yearly, ~22% formally recycled; Crayola ended its marker-recycling program citing shipping carbon footprint.
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- Increasing the regular use of safe water kiosk through collective psychological ownership: A mediation analysis
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- No screens before 18 months (video chat excepted); ~1 hour high-quality content ages 2-5; quality/context over hour-counts.
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- People learn more from well-matched words and pictures than from words alone.
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Hands-on making
- Many arts-to-academics transfer claims are not supported by rigorous evidence; also the source for structured art critique / studio-habit...
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- The impact of arts-inclusive programs on young children's mental health and wellbeing: a rapid review
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- Quantifying Coloring Skills Among Preschoolers
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- The design of early childhood makerspaces to support positive technological development
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- Coloring is a named library art-programming activity.
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- Five visitor identities predict learning outcomes; the Facilitator parent is the program's primary activator.
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- Using Identity-Related Visit Motivations as a Tool for Understanding Adult Zoo and Aquarium Visitors' Meaning-Making
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- The educational effects of children's museums on cognitive development: Empirical evidence based on two samples from Beijing
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- Evaluating Children's Conservation Biology Learning at the Zoo
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- The IKEA effect: When labor leads to love
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- Spatial Reasoning Supports Preschool Numeracy: Findings From a Large-Scale Nationally Representative Randomized Control Trial
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- Motor Assessment With the STEGA iPad App to Measure Handwriting in Children
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- Preschool Drawing and School Mathematics: The Nature of the Association
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- Fine motor skills and early comprehension of the world: Two new school readiness indicators.
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- Fine Motor Activities in Elementary School: Preliminary Findings and Provisional Implications for Children With Fine Motor Problems
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- The standard clinical instrument for visual-motor integration, with normed stepping stones from co-active coloring (12-24 mo) through sca...
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- The AAP's developmental-surveillance system; basis for 'pediatricians check coloring/milestones at every visit' claims.
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- Newborns visually recognized a shape they had only held; touch-to-vision transfer from day one.
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- Perception of object shape and texture in human newborns: evidence from cross-modal transfer tasks
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- Object manipulation and exploration in 2- to 5-month-old infants.
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- Systems in development: Motor skill acquisition facilitates three-dimensional object completion.
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- Characteristics of brief sticky mittens training that lead to increases in object exploration
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- Infants' Cross-Modal Transfer from Solid Objects to Their Graphic Representations
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- The lateral occipital complex is a convergence zone where touch and vision share a representational format.
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- Infants build motor representations by watching adults act on objects months before they can perform the actions.
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- Guided participation: children learn through scaffolded shared activity with a more capable partner.
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- Young Children's Interactions with Objects: Play as Practice and Practice as Play
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- Character toys as psychological tools
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- Open-ended materials drive the richest, most inventive play.
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- Disruptive Effects of Colorful vs. Non-colorful Play Area on Structured Play: A Pilot Study with Preschoolers
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- Effects of Physical Guidance and Knowledge of Results on Motor Learning: Support for the Guidance Hypothesis
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- Updated Meta-Analysis of the Research on Response Cards
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- Effects of response cards on student participation and academic achievement: a systematic replication with inner-city students during whole-class science instruction
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- Color choice enhanced autonomy satisfaction in a motor-learning context.
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- Art-material choice, including color, increased self-determination-theory need satisfaction.
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- Relationship Between Colours and Emotions as Reflected in Children's Drawings
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- Place-identity is a substructure of self-identity; authored spaces become part of who a child is.
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- Indexed in the R10 consolidated citation index (museum/multi-venue group).
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- A beeswax-crayon art-therapy intervention helped seriously ill children connect with a healthy inner self.
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- Randomized Trial Evaluating the Effectiveness of Coloring on Decreasing Anxiety Among Parents in a Pediatric Surgical Waiting Area
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- Evaluating the effectiveness of mandala coloring on post-operative anxiety in mothers of children undergoing congenital anomaly surgery: A randomized controlled clinical trial
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- Comparative efficacy of pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions for mitigating pain and anxiety associated with venipuncture: a randomised controlled trial
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- Coloring complex shapes decreases patient anxiety in three care environments: a pilot study with color analysis
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- Nature's experiment? Handedness and early childhood development
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- A left hand trailing across wet ink smears it.
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- The drawing effect: Evidence for reliable and robust memory benefits in free recall
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- Reduction of Cortisol Levels and Participants' Responses Following Art Making
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- Can Coloring Mandalas Reduce Anxiety?
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- The Effect of Mandala Coloring on State Anxiety: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
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- The effects of handwriting experience on functional brain development in pre-literate children
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- Drawing to Learn in Science
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- The Efficacy of Play Therapy With Children: A Meta-Analytic Review of Treatment Outcomes.
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- A Meta-Analytic Review of Child-Centered Play Therapy Approaches
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- Child-centered play therapy in the schools: review and meta-analysis
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- Drawing facilitates children's verbal reports of emotionally laden events.
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- Interventions Shown to Aid Executive Function Development in Children 4 to 12 Years Old
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Kindness and belonging
- Investigating causal effects of arts education experiences: Experimental evidence from Houston’s Arts Access Initiative
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- Arts education and social-emotional learning outcomes among K-12 students: Developing a theory of action
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- Empathy and creativity as foundations and predictors of how prosocial behavior develops in preschool age children
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- Age-related changes in creative thinking during late childhood: The contribution of cooperative learning
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- Impact of the Interactive Learning Environments in Children's Prosocial Behavior
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- Awe Sparks Prosociality in Children
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- Effectiveness of a 10-Week Tier-1 Response to Intervention Program in Improving Fine Motor and Visual-Motor Skills in General Education Kindergarten Students
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- Library art activities for toddlers and preschoolers support fine motor, gross motor, and social skills.
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- Learning in informal settings is shaped by personal, social, and physical contexts; free-choice learning drives repeat engagement.
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- Museums as avenues of learning for children: a decade of research
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- Explain This, Explore That: A Study of Parent-Child Interaction in a Children's Museum
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- Hands-on activity produced more productive parent-child talk than passive exhibits.
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- The relationship between spirituality and religiosity on psychological outcomes in adolescents and emerging adults: A meta-analytic review
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- Religious congregations are the single most important repository of social capital in America; community/social-capital framework.
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- Community-based Arts Program for Youth in Low-Income Communities: A Multi-Method Evaluation
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- Drawing with Art-Well-Being: Intergenerational Co-Creation with Seniors, Children and the Living Museum
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- Synchrony and exertion during dance independently raise pain threshold and encourage social bonding
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- Performance of Music Elevates Pain Threshold and Positive Affect: Implications for the Evolutionary Function of Music
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- The school-family-community partnership framework underwriting the program's display-and-share community step.
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- Visual Environment, Attention Allocation, and Learning in Young Children
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- Space appropriation and place attachment: University students create places
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- Fine Motor Skills and Executive Function Both Contribute to Kindergarten Achievement
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- Fine Motor Activities in Head Start and Kindergarten Classrooms
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- Social Interactions in the Home and the Development of Young Children's Conceptions of the Personal
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- Art Therapy for Psychosocial Problems in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Narrative Review on Art Therapeutic Means and Forms of Expression, Therapist Behavior, and Supposed Mechanisms of Change
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- Place attachment satisfies psychological needs in the context of environmental risk coping: Experimental evidence of a link between self-determination theory and person-place relationship effects
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- Place attachment enhances adolescents' subjective well-being via basic psychological needs satisfaction in the context of peer rejection
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- Creating sense of community: The role of public space
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- Home is where the heart is: The effect of place of residence on place attachment and community participation
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- Search Institute developmental-assets background
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- Indexed in the R10 consolidated citation index (faith/community group).
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- Children form parasocial bonds with characters and learn better from a character they know and feel close to.
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- The effectiveness of creative bibliotherapy for internalizing, externalizing, and prosocial behaviors in children: A systematic review
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- Connected students have higher grades, attendance, and graduation and lower emotional distress, with protective effects into adulthood.
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- The Relationship of School Connectedness to Adolescents' Engagement in Co-Occurring Health Risks: A Meta-Analytic Review
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- What Schools Need to Know About Fostering School Belonging: a Meta-analysis
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- Synchrony and Cooperation
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- Gratitude in young people links to life satisfaction, prosocial behavior, and social integration; gratitude activities raised optimism an...
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- Hope- and Academic-Related Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis
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Creativity
- Follow-on to the 2015 story-and-act work.
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- Using the contextual model of learning to understand visitor learning from a science center exhibition
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- A meta-analysis of the effect of visiting zoos and aquariums on visitors' conservation knowledge, beliefs, and behavior
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- Evaluating the contribution of zoos and aquariums to Aichi Biodiversity Target 1
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- AZA-funded nationwide study of zoo and aquarium learning.
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- Programmatic Evaluation in Association of Zoos and Aquariums-Accredited Zoos and Aquariums: A Literature Review
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- Across nearly every measured outcome, more religious teens scored more favorably.
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- Meta-analysis of relationships between religiosity and constructive and destructive behaviors among adolescents
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- This land is my land: Psychological ownership increases willingness to protect the natural world more than legal ownership
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- Embodied cognition and its significance for education
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- Volatile organic compound emissions from markers used in preschools, schools, and homes
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- The impact of classroom design on pupils' learning: Final results of a holistic, multi-level analysis
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- Effect of Repeated Exposure to the Visual Environment on Young Children's Attention
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- Assessment and Classroom Learning
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- Desirable difficulties: effortful, repeated practice produces more durable learning than easy, massed practice.
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- How mothers talk to their children about failure, mistakes and setbacks is related to their children's fear of failure
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- Cited in the Crosswalk for perseverance alongside Robinson 2013.
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- Clinical practice of deliberately using short crayons (or breaking crayons in half) to force correct finger placement; months spent corre...
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- Inter-manual shape transfer present at 33 weeks gestation; hands learning shape before birth.
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- Pattern Vision in Newborn Infants
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- Zone of Proximal Development: the gap between what a child can do alone and with guidance is where learning happens.
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- Three-year-olds preferred their own worn toys over new replacements, but only for anthropomorphized toys.
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- Children expect others to prefer handmade items
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- Autonomy, competence, and relatedness are the needs that drive motivation.
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- Making Mistakes: Children's Errors as Opportunities for Emergent Literacy Learning in Early Childhood
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- Effects of control over office workspace on perceptions of the work environment and work outcomes
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- Co-carries the hallway-environment claim with Killeen 2003 (after ProSign Design blog removal).
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- The foundational sensory-integration text behind the press-hard clinical practice citation.
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- More than one million new neural connections form every second in the first years of life.
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- US grandparents spend an estimated $238B/year on grandchildren; grandparents are the leading baby-gift givers.
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- Registry and first-gift data supporting new-parent and gifting audience claims.
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- The substantive milestone revision was February 2022; later page dates reflect web maintenance only.
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- Narrative therapy's externalization: the person is not the problem; the problem is the problem; put the worry on a character and face it...
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- Intrinsic reading motivation predicts reading achievement and volume; extrinsic motivation is a non-significant or negative predictor; au...
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- A Meta-analysis of the Effectiveness of Intervention Programs Designed to Support Autonomy
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- States of Curiosity Modulate Hippocampus-Dependent Learning via the Dopaminergic Circuit
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- Accelerating language development through picture book reading
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- Self-regulation in childhood as a predictor of future outcomes: A meta-analytic review.
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- UDL is the inclusive-design framework named in ESSA; its building blocks rest on solid sub-literatures, but UDL's own outcome evidence is...
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- To What Extent and Under Which Circumstances Are Growth Mind-Sets Important to Academic Achievement? Two Meta-Analyses
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- Experimental disclosure and its moderators: A meta-analysis.
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- How effective are expressive writing interventions for adolescents? A meta-analytic review
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Research library
Closest match: a study tested this same practice. Directly related: a study tested a very similar practice. Supporting research: a study explains why the practice works.
Kindness Counts: Prompting Prosocial Behavior in Preadolescents Boosts Peer Acceptance and Well-Being
Layous, Nelson, Oberle, Schonert-Reichl & Lyubomirsky (2012)
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Linked to 10 standards
Added value of dialogic parent-child book readings: A meta-analysis
Mol, Bus, de Jong & Smeets (2008)
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Linked to 9 standards
A meta-analytic review of experiments examining the effects of extrinsic rewards on intrinsic motivation
Deci, Koestner & Ryan (1999)
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Linked to 4 standards
Accelerating language development through picture book reading
Whitehurst et al. (1988)
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Linked to 1 standard
Undermining children's intrinsic interest with extrinsic reward: A test of the overjustification hypothesis
Lepper, Greene & Nisbett (1973)
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Linked to 4 standards
The impact of arts-inclusive programs on young children's mental health and wellbeing: a rapid review
Birrell et al. (2024)
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Linked to 3 standards
The state of evidence for social and emotional learning: A contemporary meta-analysis of universal school-based SEL interventions
Cipriano et al. (2023)
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Linked to 0 standards
Developing Children's Creativity and Social-Emotional Competencies through Play: Summary of Twenty Years of Findings of the Evidence-Based Interventions “Game Program”
Garaigordobil (2022)
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Linked to 14 standards
Violence Prevention: School-Based Anti-Bullying Interventions (Task Force finding)
Community Preventive Services Task Force (2021)
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Linked to 3 standards
Investigating causal effects of arts education experiences: Experimental evidence from Houston’s Arts Access Initiative
Bowen & Kisida (2019)
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Linked to 2 standards
Participatory arts interventions promote interpersonal and intergroup prosocial intentions in middle childhood
Van de Vyver et al. (2019)
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Linked to 10 standards
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