@article {5056, title = {Teacher-child interactions in Chile and their associations with prekindergarten outcomes}, journal = {Child Dev}, volume = {86}, number = {3}, year = {2015}, note = {Leyva, Diana
Weiland, Christina
Barata, M
Yoshikawa, Hirokazu
Snow, Catherine
Trevino, Ernesto
Rolla, Andrea
eng
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov{\textquoteright}t
2015/01/30 06:00
Child Dev. 2015 May-Jun;86(3):781-99. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12342. Epub 2015 Jan 27.}, month = {May-Jun}, pages = {781-99}, abstract = {Quality of teacher-child interactions is central to prekindergarten children{\textquoteright}s learning. In the United States, the quality of teacher-child interactions is commonly assessed using the teaching through interactions conceptual framework and an associ/ated observational tool, the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS). This study examined: (a) whether there was evidence supporting three distinctive domains of teacher-child interactions in Chile (construct validity) and (b) whether these domains predicted end-of-prekindergarten language, academic, and executive function skills in Chile (predictive validity). The sample consisted of 91 Chilean prekindergarten classrooms (1,868 four-year-old children). The findings support both construct and predictive validity of the teaching through interactions conceptual framework as assessed by the CLASS in Chile. Implications for cross-country comparison of quality of teacher-child interactions in prekindergarten classrooms are discussed.}, keywords = {*Faculty, *Interpersonal Relations, Adult, Child Development/*physiology, Child, Preschool, Chile, Cross-Cultural Comparison, Educational Measurement/*standards, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Neuropsychological Tests/*standards, Reproducibility of Results}, isbn = {1467-8624 (Electronic)
0009-3920 (Linking)}, author = {Leyva, D. and Weiland, C. and Barata, M. and Yoshikawa, H. and Snow, C. and Trevino, E. and Rolla, A.} }