Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

An empirical investigation of the dimensionality of the physical literacy environment in early childhood classrooms

An empirical investigation of the dimensionality of the physical literacy environment in early... This study investigated the dimensionality of the physical literacy environment of early childhood education classrooms. Data on the classroom physical literacy environment were collected from 245 classrooms using the Classroom Literacy Observation Profile. A combination of confirmatory and exploratory factor analysis was used to identify five separate dimensions of the physical literacy environment; including (a) variety and use of books, (b) variety and use of writing centre materials, (c) variety and use of technology, (d) variety of environmental print and (e) variety and use of other literacy-related materials. Overall, these five dimensions demonstrated reasonable reliability and validity. Implications for investigating the physical literacy environment and future directions for research are discussed. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Early Childhood Literacy SAGE

An empirical investigation of the dimensionality of the physical literacy environment in early childhood classrooms

Download PDF
25 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/sage/an-empirical-investigation-of-the-dimensionality-of-the-physical-rdKARPtFeB
Publisher
SAGE
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2016
ISSN
1468-7984
eISSN
1741-2919
DOI
10.1177/1468798416652448
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

This study investigated the dimensionality of the physical literacy environment of early childhood education classrooms. Data on the classroom physical literacy environment were collected from 245 classrooms using the Classroom Literacy Observation Profile. A combination of confirmatory and exploratory factor analysis was used to identify five separate dimensions of the physical literacy environment; including (a) variety and use of books, (b) variety and use of writing centre materials, (c) variety and use of technology, (d) variety of environmental print and (e) variety and use of other literacy-related materials. Overall, these five dimensions demonstrated reasonable reliability and validity. Implications for investigating the physical literacy environment and future directions for research are discussed.

Journal

Journal of Early Childhood Literacy – SAGE

Published: Jun 1, 2018

There are no references for this article.