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Assembly Bill 563: Nevada early childhood education (ECE) program: Building a foundation for school readiness and success in k-12 and beyond: FY 2010-11 evaluation report An evaluation of Nevada's publicly-funded early childhood education program for preschool-age children that examines program characteristics and quality, explores the developmental progress and parental involvement of program participants over the program year, and compares longitudinal developmental and parental involvement outcomes of participants and nonparticipants, based on reports from program directors, program observations, child assessments, and teacher surveys |
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Assembly Bill 563: Nevada early childhood education (ECE) program: Building a foundation for school readiness and success in k-12 and beyond: FY 2010-11 evaluation report: Executive summary A summary of an evaluation of Nevada's publicly-funded early childhood education program for preschool-age children that examines program characteristics and quality, explores the developmental progress and parental involvement of program participants over the program year, and compares longitudinal developmental and parental involvement outcomes of participants and nonparticipants, based on reports from program directors, program observations, child assessments, and teacher surveys |
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Assessing Operation Purple: A program evaluation of a summer camp for military youth An evaluation of Operation Purple, a free summer camp program for military children who experience parental deployment, that examines curriculum implementation and participant outcomes related to communicating feelings about deployment-related stress, understanding military culture and service, and environmental knowledge and practice, based on camp director reports and visitor logs and on a comparison of pre- and posttest parent and child surveys from participants and matched nonparticipants |
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Assessing Operation Purple: A program evaluation of a summer camp for military youth [Executive summary] A summary of an evaluation of Operation Purple, a free summer camp program for military children who experience parental deployment, that examines curriculum implementation and participant outcomes related to communicating feelings about deployment-related stress, understanding military culture and service, and environmental knowledge and practice, based on camp director reports and visitor logs and on a comparison of pre- and posttest parent and child surveys from participants and matched nonparticipants |
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Assessing peer relations: A guide for out-of-school time program practitioners A discussion of factors associated with positive peer relations and examples of measures to assess peer relations |
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Assessing the prevalence of mental health disorders and mental health needs among preschool children in care in England An identification of the prevalence of mental health and developmental disorders along with the corresponding need for interventions for children in care in England, based on data from 43 birth- through 5-year-olds removed from their families and placed in local authority care in England and their caregivers |
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Assessing wellbeing at school entry using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire: Professional perspectives Aim: The purpose of this study was to explore the views of pre-school education staff about assessing social and emotional wellbeing of children at school entry using the SDQ. The objectives were to examine the opinions of pre-school workers about completing the SDQ and to elicit their thoughts on the value of doing this and their perceptions of the usefulness of the information collected. Method: Pre-school establishments were approached using a purposive sampling strategy in order to achieve a mix of local authority (n=14) and 'partnership' establishments (n=8) as well as different socio-economic areas. Semi-structured interviews (n=25) were conducted with pre-school head teachers (n=14) and child development officers (n=11) in order to explore the process of completing the SDQ along with perceptions of its value. The interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed thematically. Results: In general, staff in pre-school establishments viewed the use of the SDQ positively. It was seen as a chance to highlight the social and emotional development of children rather than just their academic or educational ability. Most felt that the SDQ had not identified anything they did not already know about a child. A minority, nevertheless, suggested that a previously unrecognized potential difficulty was brought to light, most commonly emotional problems. Completing the SDQ was felt to be relatively straightforward even though the staff felt under pressure from competing priorities. Concerns were, however, raised about the potential of labeling a child at an early stage of formal education. (author abstract) |
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Assessment tools for language and literacy development of young dual language learners (DLLs) A summary of a review of the reliability and validity of measures used to assess the language and literacy development of young dual language learners, based on 7 large-scale government studies and 30 research studies from Canada and the United States |
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Assistive technology and the communication and literacy development of young children with disabilities A synthesis of 36 research studies on the relationship of the use of different types of assistive technology devices to the communication and literacy development of young children with disabilities |
Literature Review
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Association between attendance of day care centres and increased prevalence of eczema in the German birth cohort study LISAplus A comparison of the prevalence and cumulative incidence of eczema in East and West Germany and an identification of risk factors associated with eczema, which includes child care attendance, based on data from Immune System and Allergies in East and West Germany Plus the influence of traffic emissions and genetics (LISAplus) birth cohort study conducted in Germany, that includes 3,097 children up to 6 years of age |
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The association between preschool children's social functioning and their emergent academic skills A study of the relationship between social functioning and emergent academic development that includes an examination of gender, ethnicity, and children's feelings about school as moderators of that relationship, based on data from 467 preschool children from 84 classrooms at 44 different centers, as part of a larger study on preventing academic and externalizing difficulties |
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Associations between classroom quality and children's vocabulary and executive function skills in an urban public prekindergarten program An examination of associations between classroom quality and both receptive vocabulary and executive function, based on data from 414 children attending the Boston Public Schools public prekindergarten program in 2009-2010 |
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Attention and attachment related behavior toward professional caregivers in child care centers: A new measure for toddlers A psychometric study of the reliability and validity of the Toddler Attention Questionnaire (TAQ) that includes an examination of the association of toddler attention and attachment security to professional caregivers, based on data from 72 20- through 36-months-old Italian children in Italy |
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Backgrounder: Developmental screening in childcare An overview of state approaches to the introduction and implementation of developmental screening in child care settings |
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Background literature review pertaining to the Early Head Start study An overview of the Early Head Start program model and of the relationship of early childhood program participation to children's school readiness outcomes |
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Barriers to quality child care & out of school time activities in Maryland A study of families' and child care providers' experiences with accessing and providing child care for children with disabilities in Maryland, based on survey responses from 446 families and 481 child care providers |
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Barriers to quality child care & out of school time activities in Maryland [Executive summary] A summary of a study of families' and child care providers' experiences with accessing and providing child care for children with disabilities in Maryland, based on survey responses from 446 families and 481 child care providers |
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Behavior regulation and early math and vocabulary knowledge in German preschool children An examination of gender differences in the development of behavior regulation and of the relationship between behavior regulation and children's early math and vocabulary knowledge, based on data from 60 German children in early care and education centers in Germany |
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Behind before they begin: The challenge of early childhood education in rural China An examination of early childhood education (ECE) service delivery in China's poor rural areas that includes student participation rates, student teacher ratio, ECE teacher training, overall quality of the facilities, and child school readiness, and an examination of the relationship between ECE participation and school readiness, based on data from 82 ECE centers in rural villages and 492 households in six counties across three provinces in China |
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Benefits of an intervention focused on oddity and seriation An experimental study of the impact of instruction in oddity--choosing the object that differs from others, and seriation--ordering objects on a dimension and inserting new objects into such orders, on children's cognitive skill development, identification of letters, counting, adding, and subtracting, using control instructional groups focusing on letter recognition and identification, numeracy, and art, and based on data from 72 Head Start children from 7 urban Head Start centers who scored low on an oddity test and were randomly assigned to an instructional group |
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Beyond activities: Engaging families in preschoolers' language and literacy development Preliminary findings from a study of a Head Start early literacy family engagement intervention that examine child language and literacy outcomes and family engagement practices |
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Birthday effects and preschool attendance A comparison of young-for-grade students to old-for-grade students on both early literacy upon kindergarten entry and their probabilities of being retained in kindergarten, and an examination of the relationship between early education attendance and those comparative differences, based on data from 1,474 economically disadvantaged first-time kindergarteners who attended 468 public schools in Virginia in the fall of 2007 |
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Books, bytes and brains: The implications of new knowledge for children's early literacy learning The early years of childhood are critical for the successful development of adult literacy, whatever that literacy might look or feel like in the oncoming digital age. Two questions that become important are what sort of literacy (or literacies) will children need in the future to navigate new information pathways, and how can we use recent advances in neuroscience to help us understand optional pathways for developing the fundamentally social skills of literacy. This paper reviews recent research from the two traditionally separate areas of contemporary literacies and infant brain development to re-examine the underpinnings of literacy learning in the early years. (author abstract) |
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Buffering boys and boosting girls: The protective and promotive effects of Early Head Start for children's expressive language in the context of parenting stress An examination of the relationship between parenting stress and language development of boys and girls, the mediating role of Early Head Start participation, and variation by gender in that relationship, based on data from 3,001 study participants in the national Early Head Start Research and Evaluation (EHSRE) study, and a detailed examination of a subset of 146 participants from a dataset associated with one EHSRE site |
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Building bridges to promote educational well-being: A population-based study of the impact and timing of out-of-home placement, child maltreatment & homelessness A study of the prevalence of out-of-home placement in a cohort of second grade students in an urban public school system, of the relationship of out-of-home placement to educational outcomes, and of first experiences of child maltreatment and homelessness as predictors of out-of-home placement, based on data for 12,045 second grade students from an integrated administrative data set |
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