Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science 

About: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science is an academic journal published by American Psychological Association. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Cognition & Personality. It has an ISSN identifier of 0008-400X. Over the lifetime, 1837 publications have been published receiving 49438 citations. The journal is also known as: Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement.

Multicultural and ethnic attitudes in Canada: An overview of the 1991 National Survey.

Abstract: A national survey of multicultural and ethnic attitudes was carried out in June 1991, with a representative sample of 2500 respondents, and oversamples in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver (total N = 3325). Scales were developed to assess attitudes towards various aspects of multiculturalism (

Development and psychometric properties of the Early Development Instrument (EDI): A measure of children's school readiness.

Abstract: L'instrument de mesure du developpement a la petite enfance a ete concu afin de fournir un outil approprie, peu couteux et valide sur le plan psychometrique, permettant d'evaluer les capacites de l'enfant a entrer en premiere annee primaire. Les proprietes psychometriques de l'instrument ont ete evaluees au cours de deux etudes. Une analyse factorielle menee a partir des donnees recueillies aupres de 16 000 enfants de maternelle a permis de tester la presence de cinq facteurs theoriques: sante physique et bien-etre, competence sociale, maturite affective, langage et communication, developpement cognitif et connaissances generales. Les analyses factorielles ont pu confirmer la presence des trois premiers facteurs, mais ont degage la necessite de modifier les deux derniers. Ceci a permis de formuler la version finale de l'instrument de mesure du developpement a la petite enfance qui est composee des cinq facteurs suivants: sante physique et bien-etre, competence sociale, maturite affective, langage et developpement cognitif, habiletes a la communication et connaissances generales. Ces cinq domaines offrent de bons indices de consistance interne, comparable a d'autres instruments. Une seconde etude (N = 82) a demontre la presence d'une bonne concordance entre l'evaluation de parents et des enseignants, la fidelite entre les evaluateurs, la validite concomitante et la validite convergente. Ces resultats confirment que l'instrument de mesure du developpement a la petite enfance est un outil psychometrique adequat pour evaluer les aptitudes de l'enfant lors de l'entree a l'ecole primaire.

Home numeracy experiences and children’s math performance in the early school years.

Abstract: Children’s numerical competence in kindergarten is highly predictive of their acquisition of mathematics in Grade 1 and Grade 2, suggesting that experiences at home before schooling are important in understanding how numeracy develops. In this study, the mathematical skills of 146 children in Kindergarten, Grade 1, and Grade 2 were correlated with the frequency with which parents reported informal activities that have quantitative components such as board and card games, shopping, or cooking. Effect sizes were consistent with research relating home literacy experiences to children’s vocabulary. The present research supports claims about the importance of home experiences in children’s acquisition of mathematics.