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Advancing the measurement of quality for early childhood programs that support early language and literacy development A review of assessment tools for the measurement of the quality of children's language and literacy development in center-based and family child care settings |
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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 2009-10 final evaluation report An evaluation of the Nevada 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 third and fifth grade outcomes of participants and nonparticipants |
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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 2009-10 final evaluation report: Executive summary A summary of an evaluation of the Nevada 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 third and fifth grade outcomes of participants and nonparticipants |
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Assessing the development of preschoolers' mathematical patterning A study of the effect of a preschool intervention focused on algebraic patterns on preschoolers' performance on a patterns test both immediately following the intervention and at the end of first grade, based on data collected from the preschoolers of a control classroom and an intervention classroom at two Australian preschools |
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Assessment for preschool science learning and learning environments An overview of tools for the assessment of science learning in preschools that includes performance-based assessments, direct assessments, and the assessment of science skills and dispositions toward science, preschool classroom quality assessments in relationship to science learning, and the evaluation of preschool curriculum for science content |
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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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Childcare and health: A review of using linked national registers A review of studies using the Childcare Database dataset to explore the association between child care attendance and the incidence of disease in a population of over 1 million young children in Denmark |
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Children's opinions about learning to read A study of children's perceptions of their own literacy and of their own learning to read, based on interviews with 43 Finish children in Northern Finland |
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Classroom practices and children's motivation to learn A discussion of select research on the associations between the differing qualities of classroom environments and the motivation of children |
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Closing the gap: Optional Extended-Day Kindergarten An overview of the Optional Extended-Day Kindergarten program in Utah and its relationship to the early literacy skills of participants |
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Constructing and resisting the development of a school readiness survey: The power of participatory research Two studies in Wyoming, the first an account of teacher input for the development of the Instructional Foundations for Kindergarten (IFK) school readiness assessment tool, based on data from focus group and individual interviews with 11 preschool and 13 kindergarten teachers and a second study of teacher's reactions to their administration of the IFK in terms of ease of administration, inclusiveness of items, and relevance of items to children's success, based on focus group interviews with 5 preschool and 5 kindergarten teachers |
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Curriculum guidelines for early literacy: A comparison of New Zealand and England A comparison of literacy-related learning outcomes as well as both formative and summative assessment issues in New Zealand's Te Wha-riki and in England's Early Years Foundation Stage curricula |
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Diabetes care in the school and day care setting A position statement of the American Diabetes Association that includes recommendations for the safe and fair inclusion of children with diabetes in school and child care settings |
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Early childhood education: The likelihood of sustained effects An overview of research on the effects of several early education programs on the cognitive, socioemotional, and academic skills of children in the elementary school years |
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Early education for diversity: Starting from birth An examination of the tenets of the Pedagogy-in-Participation approach to diversity education for infants and toddlers, the characteristics that motivate professionals to innovate, and the characteristics of successful interventions, based on a content analysis of 6 portfolios of the intervention implementation in Portugal and supplementary interviews with the early childhood teachers |
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Early years study 3: Making decisions, taking action A discussion of children's early development and learning, the role that early childhood programs can play in supporting their development, and early childhood education policy in Canada |
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Educational effects of a vocabulary intervention on preschoolers' word knowledge and conceptual development: A cluster-randomized trial An examination of the effects of the World of Words vocabulary program on children's word, conceptual, category, and property knowledge, based data from 3- and 4-year-old children in 28 Head Start classrooms in 12 schools |
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The effect of afterschool program participation on English language acquisition An analysis of predictors of after school program participation and a second study of the relationship between after school program participation and the English language development of English language learners, based on data from first through seventh graders in one elementary school district and a large after school program provider in Redwood City, California |
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The effects of an intensive shared book-reading intervention for preschool children at risk for vocabulary delay A study of effects of an intensive shared book-reading intervention on the vocabulary development of preschool children at risk for vocabulary delay, based on data from 125 children stratified by classroom and randomly assigned to either the Words of Oral Reading and Language Development (WORLD) intervention or typical practice |
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Evaluating early care and education practices for dual language learners: Annotated bibliographies from a critical review of the research An annotated bibliography of 24 peer-reviewed studies published from 2000 through 2010 on the contribution of early care and education to the development and learning of dual language learners from birth through age 5 |
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Evaluating early care and education practices for dual language learners: A critical review of the research A review of research on the contribution of early care and education to the development and learning of dual language learners from birth through age 5, based on an examination of 24 peer-reviewed studies published from 2000 through 2010 |
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Evaluating the effectiveness of Tennessee's Voluntary Pre-K Program: Initial results An overview of findings from two randomized studies of the effect of prekindergarten participation on children's school readiness, based on data for more than 1,200 children from 23 schools in 14 Tennessee school districts during the 2009-2010 academic year |
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Evaluating the feasibility, effectiveness and acceptability of an active play intervention for disadvantaged preschool children: A pilot study A pilot study measuring fundamental movement skills of disadvantaged children both before and after the implementation of the Active Play Program (APP) within Parents Learning Actively with Youngsters (PLAY), an existing community-based parenting program, with an examination of the acceptability of the APP intervention to those implementing it, based on data from 26 children, 87 parents, and 5 program staff members in Glastonbury, Australia |
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An evaluation of the Individualized Learning Intervention: A mentoring program for early childhood teachers An evaluation and study of the effect of the Individualized Learning Intervention (ILI) training for adult mentors on the cognitive, math, and pre-reading skills of 36 children within an urban Head Start program in the South |
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Expectations for the transition from kindergarten to primary school amongst teachers, parents and children A study of transition-to-school social and academic adjustment as well as expectations for the transition experience in areas such as child preferences, difficulties, ideal roles for parents, and the cooperative efforts between kindergartens and primary schools, based on quantitative classroom observations of children and surveys of both teachers and parents of a cohort of children in 6 classes in Hong Kong |
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