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Quality in early childhood care and education settings: A compendium of measures A compendium, review, and comparison of over 20 instruments designed to measure the quality of early care and education settings |
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The impact of professional development in family child care: A practice-based approach An investigation into the effect of family child care providers’ participation in a language and literacy professional development program on their early literacy practices, based on a sample of 128 family child care providers receiving a language and literacy college course, a language and literacy college course plus ongoing mentoring, or no professional development activities in low-income, urban areas of Michigan |
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Project Early Kindergarten evaluation update: General overview of results through 2007-08 of a Saint Paul Public Schools initiative A synthesis of different components of an implementation and outcomes evaluation through the fourth year of Project Early Kindergarten, an early kindergarten program in St. Paul, Minnesota, for four-year-old children intended to facilitate the transition to kindergarten |
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CHELLO: The Child/Home Environmental Language and Literacy Observation An account of the design and field-testing of an instrument for measuring the quality of the language and literacy environment in home-based child care settings |
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Partners in Family Child Care 2008-2011 summary report A study of implementation activities, services, family engagement, provider readiness to change, program quality, and child developmental outcomes in Partners in Family Child Care, a 10-month home visiting program in Rochester, New York, to increase the quality of family child care and improve child early literacy and socioemotional outcomes, based on provider and home visitor surveys, provider observations, and child assessments |
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Early Language and Literacy Environment |
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Quality in early childhood care and education settings: A compendium of measures Profiles of instruments designed to measure the quality of early care and education settings, including information on instrument program target age and setting, purpose, administration, key constructs and scoring, and reliability and validity |
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The impact of professional development and coaching on early language and literacy instructional practices An examination of the impact of the Teacher Education and Compensation Helps (T.E.A.C.H.) course, either with or without ongoing coaching, on teacher knowledge and quality early language and literacy practices in center- and home-based care settings from 291 sites |
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Project Early Kindergarten evaluation: Results through 2010-11 of a Saint Paul Public Schools initiative An evaluation of Project Early Kindergarten (PEK), a high-quality prekindergarten program for at risk children in St. Paul, Minnesota, that examines classroom quality and kindergarten teacher perceptions of PEK and that compares longitudinal developmental and educational outcomes of participants and nonparticipants, based on teacher surveys, classroom observations, and child assessments |
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Family, friends & neighbors: Year 1 evaluation report An evaluation of Family, Friends and Neighbor Care, a program in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to improve the quality of home-based child care providers through home visits and play groups, that examines program implementation and changes in caregiving quality, children's vocabulary, and provider access to community resources, based on program data, surveys from 15 parents, stakeholder interviews and focus groups, pre- and post-program observations of 33 providers, and pre- and post-program assessments of 29 children |
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Reliability and validity of the Stage of Change Scale for Early Education and Care 2.0: Mentor/Coach Form A study of the reliability and the concurrent and predictive validity of the Stage of Change Scale for Early Education and Care 2.0: Mentor/Coach Form, a measure to assess the readiness of early childhood educators or care providers to change their practices or program, based on data on group family child care providers collected by mentors as part of a home visiting quality initiative in Rochester, New York |
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Partners in Family Child Care: 2009-2010 year 2 report Findings from the second year of the implementation of Partners in Family Child Care, an initiative to improve the early literacy and socioemotional outcomes of children in family child care, based on data from 60 urban family child care providers in Rochester, New York |
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Project Early Kindergarten evaluation: Results of a longitudinal study of a Saint Paul Public Schools initiative, 2005-06 through 2011-12 An evaluation of Project Early Kindergarten (PEK), a high-quality prekindergarten program for at risk children in St. Paul, Minnesota, that examines classroom quality and kindergarten teacher perceptions of PEK and that compares longitudinal developmental and educational outcomes of participants and nonparticipants, based on teacher surveys, classroom observations, and child assessments |
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Research Connections is supported by grant #90YE0104 from the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The contents are solely the responsibility of the National Center for Children in Poverty and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, the Administration for Children and Families, or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.