Adult outcomes as a function of an early childhood educational program: An Abecedarian Project follow-up
Campbell, Frances A., July, 2012
Developmental Psychology, 48(4), 1033-1043
A longitudinal study of the effect of an early educational intervention on economic, socioemotional, and educational outcomes at age 30, based on data collected from 101 of the original low-income participants in the Abecedarian Project experiment in North Carolina
Reports & Papers
Allegiances or attachments: Relationships among infants and their daycare teachers
Farran, Dale, 1984
In R. Ainslie (Ed.), The child and the daycare setting: Qualitative variations and development (pp. 133-158). New York: Praeger Publishers
A study of infants’ social interactions and relationships with alternative caregivers in child care
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Caregiver training and classroom quality in child care centers
Burchinal, Margaret, 2002
Applied Developmental Science, 6(1), 2-11
A study of the association between classroom quality and both formal education and informal training of caregivers, based on data from 533 child care center classrooms in four states
Reports & Papers
The children of the Cost, Quality, and Outcomes Study go to school
Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen S., 1999
Chapel Hill, NC: Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center.
The longitudinal follow up to the Cost, Quality, and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers Study, following children for five years to assess the impact of quality of child care experiences on later development.
Reports & Papers
Children's social and cognitive development and child-care quality: Testing for differential associations related to poverty, gender, or ethnicity
Burchinal, Margaret, 2000
Applied Developmental Science, 4(3), 149-165
A study of the influence of poverty, minority ethnic background, gender, and parental authoritarian beliefs on the relationship between child care quality and children’s developmental outcomes
Reports & Papers
Cost, quality, and child outcomes in child care centers: Public report
Helburn, Suzanne W., April, 1995
Denver: University of Colorado at Denver, Department of Economics
Findings from a study of the relationship between child care costs and quality and the concurrent effects of child care quality on children's cognitive and socioemotional outcomes, based on data from licensed community childcare sites in Los Angeles County in California, the Hartford corridor in Connecticut, the Frontal range in Colorado, and the Piedmont region in North Carolina
Reports & Papers
The Cost, Quality and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers Study
Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen S.,
Denver, CO: Center for Research on Economic and Social Policy
A longitudinal study of the relationships between children's experiences in center-based care and school and their social, emotional and cognitive outcomes
Major Research Projects
Cost, quality and child outcomes in child care centers: Technical report
Helburn, Suzanne W., June, 1995
University of Colorado at Denver, Center for Research in Economic and Social Policy
An outline of the structure and design of the Cost, Quality and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers Study, with descriptive comparisons of the centers from which data was drawn, and a presentation of analytic study results
Reports & Papers
Development of academic skills from preschool through second grade: Family and classroom predictors of developmental trajectories
Burchinal, Margaret, 2002
Journal of School Psychology, 40(5), 415-436
A study of the relationship between 511 children's acquisition of academic skills from preschool to second grade and their experiences with parents and teachers, based on data from the Cost, Quality, and Outcomes Study, spanning child care centers in four states
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Diversity, child care quality, and developmental outcomes
Burchinal, Margaret, 2003
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 18(4), 401-426
A study investigating the relationship between children's ethnicities and the validity of standardized child care quality measures, using data from the Cost, Quality, and Child Outcomes Study and the NICHD Study of Early Child Care
Reports & Papers
Do regulable features of child-care homes affect children's development?
Clarke-Stewart, K. Alison, 2002
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 17(1), 52-86
An analysis of the links between regulable and nonregulable features of family child care homes and infants' and toddlers' cognitive development using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care
Reports & Papers
Early language and the development of children's reading skills
Poe, Michele, 2004
Journal of School Psychology, 42(4), 315-335
A longitudinal study of African American children's language and reading development to examine the relations among phonological awareness, language skills, print processing skills, and reading development in prekindergarten and in second grade
Reports & Papers
Effects of a community initiative on the quality of child care
Bryant, Donna M., 1999
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 14(4), 449-464
A study of the impact of Smart Start, a state-funded program to implement local quality improvement initiatives on preschool quality
Reports & Papers
The effects of Smart Start on the quality of preschool child care
Bryant, Donna M., 1997
Chapel Hill, NC: Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center.
A study of the effects of a broad-based community initiative, Smart Start, to improve the quality of preschool child care between 1994 and 1996
Reports & Papers
Effects of transitions to new child care classes on infant/toddler distress and behavior
Cryer, Debby, 2005
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 20(1), 37-56
An examination of the emotional and behavioral effects of infants' and toddlers' transitions to new child care classrooms
Reports & Papers
Family income and its relation to preschool children's adjustment for families in the NICHD study of early child care
Mistry, Rashmita S., 2004
Developmental Psychology, 40(5), 727-745
A longitudinal study examining the relation between family income and family processes to child outcomes, investigating whether income has a greater impact for children from low income families
Reports & Papers
Parents as child care consumers
Cryer, Debby, 1997
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 12(1), 35-58
A study of how parental quality ratings of aspects of child care are influenced by parental values, a selection from a larger study, Cost, Quality and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers
Reports & Papers
Persistent effects of early intervention on high-risk children and their mothers
Ramey, Craig T., 2000
Applied Developmental Science, 4(1), 2-14
A report on the long-term child and mother outcomes of the Abecedarian Project, a two-phase, comparative, early childhood education, pediatric healthcare, and family support program
Reports & Papers
The prediction of process quality from structural features of child care
Phillipsen, Leslie C., 1997
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 12(3), 281-303
An analysis of data from the Cost, Quality and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers Study to identify structural features of child care centers and classrooms that predict process quality
Reports & Papers
The QUINCE-PFI study: An evaluation of a promising model for child care provider training: Final report
Bryant, Donna M., September 2009
Chapel Hill, NC: FPG Child Development Institute.
An examination of the efficacy of an individualized, assessment-based, on-site consultation model of professional development for the quality improvement of early childhood programs, based on 108 child care classrooms and 263 family child care homes from twenty-four agencies in five states assigned to a group to receive a professional development intervention or to a control group
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The relation of preschool child-care quality to children's cognitive and social developmental trajectories through second grade
Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen S., 2001
Child Development, 72(5), 1534-1553
An examination of the relationship between quality preschool and cognitive and socioemotional development in community child-care centers, adjusting for family selection factors from a longitudinal study of 733 children ages 4 to 8 years old
Reports & Papers
Relations between preschool children's child-care experiences and concurrent development: The Cost, Quality, and Outcomes Study
Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen S., 1997
Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 43(3), 451-477
A longitudinal study of the effects of child care experiences on concurrent child outcomes, taking into account the quality of child care and the moderating influence of family and child characteristics.
Reports & Papers
Structural predictors of child care quality in child care homes
Burchinal, Margaret, 2002
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 17(1), 87-105
An article examining whether structural features of family child care predict quality better than other features
Reports & Papers
Timing of high-quality child care and cognitive, language, and preacademic development
Li, Weilin, 2012
Developmental Psychology, , 1-12
A study of the relationship between exposure to different combinations of high- versus low-quality child care during two developmental periods--infant-toddlerhood and preschool, and children's cognitive, language, and preacademic development, based on data from 1,364 young children from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care
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