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Contextually-relevant validation of peer play constructs with African American Head Start children: Penn Interactive Peer Play Scale An evaluation of the construct and concurrent validity of a modified version of the Penn Interactive Peer Play Scale (PIPPS) using a sample of African American Head Start children |
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Development and validation of the preschool learning behaviors scale A discussion of the validation of the Preschool Learning Behaviors Scale (PLBS) for use with children aged 3 to 5- ½ years, three samples were used; a normative sample used for use in scale development and calibration; a national validation sample for assessing construct invariance and divergent validity; and a local Head Start sample used for retest and interobserver reliability and validity |
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Early childhood experiences and kindergarten success: A population-based study of a large urban setting An examination of the effects of center-based child care experiences on young urban children's kindergarten outcomes after controlling for significant risk factors, including neighborhood and family characteristics |
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Identifying and promoting social competence with African American preschool children: Developmental and contextual considerations A study assessing temperament, language, self-regulation, and peer play, in a sample of 139 low-income African American children attending Head Start |
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An integrated curriculum to improve mathematics, language, and literacy for Head Start children A report on the development and field trial of the Evidence-Based Program for Integrated Curricula (EPIC) for Head Start that focuses on comprehensive mathematics, language, and literacy skills, based on data from EPIC or the Developmental Learning Materials Early Childhood Express curriculums randomly assigned to 70 classrooms with 1,415 children |
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An investigation of classroom situational dimensions of emotional and behavioral adjustment and cognitive and social outcomes for Head Start children An investigation of the influence of classroom behavior problems on preschool readiness outcomes among low-income preschool children in urban areas |
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Investigation of dimensions of social-emotional classroom behavior and school readiness for low-income urban preschool children An investigation of higher order dimensions of early educator's classroom strategies to promoting learning, social, emotional, and behavioral adjustments for low income preschool children |
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Learning Behaviors Scale |
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The matter of assessor variance in early childhood education: Or whose score is it anyway? An examination of the relative proportions of score variation attributable to both assessors and children on assessments administered both outside of classrooms by extramural assessors and for measures administered by teachers within classrooms, based on data from multiple cohorts of Head Start and kindergarten children from the 254 Head Start classrooms in a public school system in a large city the eastern United States |
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Multidimensionality of teachers' graded responses for preschoolers' stylistic learning behavior: The Learning-to-Learn scales A validity study that includes both exploratory and confirmatory analyses of the Learning-to-Learn scales, a longitudinal study of its sensitivity to growth, and a study of its predictive power against future deficits in cognitive achievement, based on a data from 1,980 Head Start attendees in 80 selected school districts of Philadelphia in the 2006-2007 academic year and 733 newly enrolled students from the same classes for 2007-2008 academic year |
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Penn Interactive Peer Play Scale |
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The Pictorial Scale of Perceived Competence and Social Acceptance: Does it work with low-income children? A study of the construct validity of the Pictorial Scale of Perceived Competence and Social Acceptance (PSPCSA) for preschoolers, and also the developmental appropriateness of the PSPCSA; the data was collected through administering the PSPCSA to a sample population of 476 African-American children enrolled in a large metropolitan Head Start program |
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Preschool competency in context: An investigation of the unique contribution of child competencies in early academic success A Head Start study investigating various dimensions of children's preschool classroom competencies to determine which might be the most reliable predictors of their future academic performance |
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Preschool Learning Behaviors Scale |
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The preschool learning behaviors scale: Dimensionality and external validity in Head Start A psychometric study of the dimensionality and utility of the Preschool Learning Behaviors Scale for use with disadvantaged preschool children that includes an examination of the relationship between preschool learning and reduced cognitive non-proficiency and behavioral maladjustment up to 3 years later, based on data from 119 teachers and 1,666 children in urban Head Start classrooms |
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Preschool peer interactions and readiness to learn: Relationships between classroom peer play and learning behaviors and conduct An inquiry into the role of peer play in the development of both learning and problem behaviors in children, based on a sample of 556 low-income children and 43 teachers from 14 Head Start centers in a northeastern city, evaluated using the Penn Interactive Peer Play Scale (PIPPS), and the Preschool Learning Behaviors Scale (PLBS) or the Conners Teacher Rating Scale (CTRS) |
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Preschool version of the Social Skills Rating System: An empirical analysis of its use with low-income children An investigation of the reliability and validity of the published teacher version of the preschool Social Skills Rating System (SSRS) for Head Start children |
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Typology of emotional and behavioral adjustment for low-income children: A child-centered approach An identification of six categories of classroom behavioral adjustment and of the relationship between those profile types and child demographic characteristics, special needs status, and readiness competencies at the end of the year, based on data from 829 children enrolled in a large urban Head Start program in the Northeast |
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