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Child-care quality rating and improvement systems in five pioneer states: Implementation issues and lessons learned [Executive summary]
Zellman, Gail L., 2008
(MG-795-AECF/SPF/UWA). Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corporation.
A summary of a study of the quality rating and improvement systems (QRIS) in five early QRIS-adopting states, including descriptions of: the theory of action underlying QRISs; each state's system, including the aspects of quality included in the system; the development of each state's system; and challenges facing system designers and lessons learned from these states, all based on in-depth interviews with 4 key stakeholders in each state
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Preschool programs can boost school readiness
Gormley, Jr., William T., June 27, 2008
Science, 320(), 1723-1724
A comparison of the academic skills of experimental groups of 1,264 children completing public prekindergarten and 327 children completing Head Start programs and control groups of 1,492 children entering public prekindergarten and 483 children entering Head Start programs in Tulsa
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Child-care quality rating and improvement systems in five pioneer states: Implementation issues and lessons learned
Zellman, Gail L., 2008
(MG-795-AECF/SPF/UWA). Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corporation.
A study of the quality rating and improvement systems (QRIS) in five early QRIS-adopting states, including descriptions of: the theory of action underlying QRISs; each state's system, including the aspects of quality included in the system; the development of each state's system; and challenges facing system designers and lessons learned from these states, all based on in-depth interviews with 4 key stakeholders in each state
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The effects of Oklahoma's universal pre-kindergarten program on Hispanic children
Gormley, Jr., William T., June 2008
Washington, DC: Georgetown University, Center for Research on Children in the United States.
A summary of a study of the impacts of Oklahoma's publicly-funded, universal prekindergarten program on the early reading, writing, and math skills of Hispanic students in Tulsa, Oklahoma
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''Does not.'' ''Does too.'': Thinking about play in the early childhood classroom
McLane, Joan B., 2003
(Occasional Paper No. 4). Chicago: Herr Research Center.
A longitudinal study of early childhood teachers' attitudes regarding the educational value of play
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Classroom Practices Inventory
Hyson, Marion C., 1990
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 5(4), 475-494
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Accountability in early childhood: No easy answers
Meisels, Samuel J., 2006
(Occasional Paper No. 6). Chicago: Herr Research Center.
A critical discussion of accountability testing in early childhood education with recommendations for more effective early childhood program evaluation
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Researching English language and literacy development in schools
Hawkins, Margaret R., 2004
Educational Researcher, 33(3), 14-25
A sociocultural perspective on English as a second language acquisition in the classroom and its implications for research.
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A developmental perspective on full- versus part-day kindergarten and children’s academic trajectories through fifth grade
Votruba-Drzal, Elizabeth, July/August 2008
Child Development, 79(4), 957-978
An examination of the relationship between time spent in kindergarten and primary school math and reading achievement in a sample of several thousand children
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Early day care, infant-mother attachment, and maternal responsiveness in the infants' first year
Burchinal, Margaret, 1992
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 7(2), 383-396
A longitudinal study on the impact of non maternal child care on mother-child relationships and infants’ insecure maternal attachments
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The effects of intervention and social class on children's answers to concrete and abstract questions
Vernon-Feagans, Lynne, 1991
Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 21(1), 115-130
A study of whether a preschool intervention program would help poverty children perform better on answering abstract questions
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Caregivers' mediation and toddlers' emotional responses in the child care context
Frank, Ilana, 2006
Early Child Development and Care, 176(3-4), 239-251
A naturalistic observation study of the quality of interaction between caregivers and 18 to 30 month old children in child care centers
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Child's play with adults, toys, and peers: An examination of family and child-care influences
Howes, Carollee, 1987
Developmental Psychology, 23(3), 423-430
A study of the influences of family and child care characteristics on the play of toddlers in family child care homes, based on observations and questionnaires
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The complex interplay between biology and environment: Otitis media and mediating effects on early literacy development
Roberts, Joanne E., 2001
In S. B. Neuman & D. K. Dickinson (Eds.), Handbook of early literacy research (Vol. 1, pp. 232-241). New York: Guilford Press
An examination of the influence of Otitis media with effusion (OME) on children’s early language and literacy skills, and of the interactive or independent influence of a children’s home and child care environments on early language and literacy acquisition
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Infants in group care: Patterns of despair and detachment
Fein, Greta G., 1995
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 10(3), 261-275
A study of adjustment patterns of infants entering child care in an Italian child care center
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Preschool programs can boost school readiness
Gormley, Jr., William T., June 2008
(CROCUS Working Paper No. 12). Washington, DC: Georgetown University, Center for Research on Children in the United States.
A study comparing the impacts on children's early reading, writing, and math skills of participating in Head Start or participating in Oklahoma's universal prekindergarten program, and relating the variation in impacts to differences in classroom practices in the programs
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Supporting online material for: Preschool programs can boost school readiness
Gormley, Jr., William T., July 01, 2008
Science, 320(),
Supplemental material to a comparison of the academic skills of experimental groups of 1,264 children completing public prekindergarten and 327 children completing Head Start programs and control groups of 1,492 children entering public prekindergarten and 483 children entering Head Start programs in Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Evaluating child care and preschools: Advancing the interests of government, teachers, or parents?
Fuller, Bruce, 1997
In B. Spodek & O.N. Saracho (Eds.), Issues in early childhood educational assessment and evaluation (Vol. 7, pp. 7-27). New York: Teachers College Press.
An analysis of the issues and benefits involved in various forms of evaluation of early childhood programs, including evaluation for policy makers, teachers and providers, and parents
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Preventive education for high-risk children: Cognitive consequences of the Carolina Abecedarian Project
Ramey, Craig T., 1984
American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 88(5), 515-523
An article on the effects of the Abecedarian Project, a comprehensive early intervention for at-risk children, on cognitive development from birth to 54 months.
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The effects of daycare intervention in the preschool years of the narrative skills of poverty children in kindergarten
Vernon-Feagans, Lynne, 1994
International Journal of Behavioral Development, 17(3), 503-523
A study of the effects of child care intervention on the narrative skills of poverty children in kindergarten
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Innovations in toddler day care and family support services: An international overview
Kamerman, Sheila B., 1995
Child Welfare, 74(6), 1281-1300
An overview of European universal child care systems
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Other
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Children's experiences in center-based child care as a function of teacher background and adult:child ratio
Howes, Carollee, 1997
Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 43(3), 404-425
An examination of child care quality in relation to adult: child ratio and teacher education, using the Cost, Quality and Outcome (CQO) and Florida Quality Improvement study datasets
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The contracts of literacy: What children learn from learning to read books
Snow, Catherine, 1986
In Emergent literacy: Writing and reading (pp. 116-138). Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.
A description of the information about books and texts that children learn while learning to read
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Self-Reported Behavior Index
Brown, B. Bradford, July 1986
Developmental Psychology, 22(4), 521-530
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Relations between the everyday activities of preschoolers and their teachers' perceptions of their competence in the first years of school
Tudge, Jonathan R.H., 2003
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 18(1), 42-64
An analysis of the relationship between the everyday activities of preschool children from two socioeconomic backgrounds and their teachers’ perceptions of their competence in the first years of school, based on a sample of 20 children
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