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Activity settings and daily routines in preschool classrooms: Diverse experiences in early learning settings for low-income children An identification of two routines profiles--structured-balanced and high free choice, derived from varying proportions of teacher-directed and child-initiated activities during the preschool day, and a study of the relationship between those routine profiles and structural program characteristics, measures of process quality, children's engagement in activities of various academic contents, teachers' instructional strategies, and children's school readiness skills, based on data from 53 public preschool classrooms, 47 private preschool classrooms, and 25 family child care homes that serve low-income children in Los Angeles, California |
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After-school child care in an elementary school: Social development and continuity and complementarity of programs A study of the impact of an out-of-school child care program on the social experiences and social development of 30 kindergarten-age children versus children that went home after school |
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Are teachers' education, major, and credentials related to classroom quality and children's academic gains in pre-kindergarten? An investigation using data from the NCEDL Multi-State Study of Pre-Kindergarten, 2001-2003, to examine if early educators' education, early childhood major, and credentials are related to classroom quality and preschool children's academic achievements |
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Assessing the school readiness needs of a state A description and analysis of 6 states' efforts to assess young children and the programs and settings in which they are prepared for schooling |
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Can the age of entry into child care and the quality of child care predict adjustment in kindergarten? A longitudinal study of the effects of quality and length of child care attendance on adjustment to kindergarten |
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Child care caregiver sensitivity and attachment An overview of three studies measuring the impact of child care caregivers' sensitivity on children's attachment security |
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Child care for children in poverty: Opportunity or inequality? A study of child care quality in child care centers serving children from low-income families, its relationship to type of center-based programming, and its comparability to child care quality in centers serving upper- and middle-income families, based on data from the nationally representative Profile of Child Care Settings study and the National Child Care Staffing Study, which collected observational data on child care quality in 227 child care centers in five cities |
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Child care social climate Key findings from a study on teacher-child relationships and the social environment of child care on children's socioemotional development |
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Children and their child care caregivers: Profiles of relationships A study of child and child care provider relationships based on an analysis of toddler and preschool children behavior profiles |
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Children enrolled in public pre-K: The relation of family life, neighborhood quality, and socioeconomic resources to early competence An examination of the relations of young children's sociodemographic characteristics, parental well-being, family functioning, and neighborhood quality to their early academic achievements and socioemotional competence |
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The children of the Cost, Quality, and Outcomes Study go to school 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. |
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The children of the Cost, Quality, and Outcomes Study go to school [Executive summary] Report summarizes the key findings of the longitudinal follow up study to the Cost, Quality, and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers Study. The longitudinal study examines developmental outcomes of quality of center-based child care. |
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Children's classroom engagement and school readiness gains in prekindergarten A study of the relationship between child engagement in public prekindergarten classrooms and school readiness gains, based on data from 2,751 children from the Multi-State Study of Pre-Kindergarten and the State-Wide Early Education Programs Study (SWEEP) |
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Children's experiences in center-based child care as a function of teacher background and adult:child ratio 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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Children's relationships with caregivers: Mothers and child care teachers A study categorizing infants', toddlers', and preschool children's relationships with their mothers and teachers and relating these categories to levels of teacher involvement, based on direct observations |
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Child's play with adults, toys, and peers: An examination of family and child-care influences 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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Classroom dimensions predict early peer interaction when children are diverse in ethnicity, race, and home language A study of the relationship between children's behaviors with peers and dimensions of the classroom as well as teacher-child relationship quality, based on data from children from diverse race, ethnic, and home language backgrounds that are part of the National Evaluation of Early Head Start |
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The Cost, Quality and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers Study A longitudinal study of the relationships between children's experiences in center-based care and school and their social, emotional and cognitive outcomes |
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CQO children go to school Key findings of the longitudinal follow-up study to the Cost, Quality, and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers Study (CQO) that investigates the persistence of children's benefits from participation in early childhood care through elementary school |
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Development of academic skills from preschool through second grade: Family and classroom predictors of developmental trajectories 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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An eco-behavioral approach to examining the contextual effects of early childhood classrooms A study of the association between both child and classroom characteristics and children's interactions with both objects and peers, based on observations of a random selection of 225 Hawaiian young children |
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Entering a new peer group in ethnically and linguistically diverse childcare classrooms A six-month longitudinal study of the associations between child social competence and race, language, relationships with teachers, and classroom characteristics in a population of 190 children low income children in 38 racially- and linguistically-diverse urban classrooms |
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Ethnic differences in social-emotional development in preschool: The impact of teacher child relationships and classroom quality A study of differences in teachers' perceptions of prekindergarten children's behavior problems by ethnic group and gender, and a second study of the relationship between both classroom and teacher quality and children's behavior problems, based on a secondary analysis of two multi-state prekindergarten studies |
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Evaluation of the First 5 LA Family Literacy Initiative: Final evaluation report Findings from an eight-year process and outcome evaluation of the First 5 LA Family Literacy Initiative, a comprehensive program to promote literacy among low-income families in Los Angeles County, that examines both program characteristics and quality and both child and parent school participation and literacy outcomes |
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Evaluation of the First 5 LA Family Literacy Initiative: Final evaluation report [Executive summary] A summary of findings from an eight-year process and outcome evaluation of the First 5 LA Family Literacy Initiative, a comprehensive program to promote literacy among low-income families in Los Angeles County, that examines both program characteristics and quality and both child and parent school participation and literacy outcomes |
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