After-school pursuits: An examination of outcomes in the San Francisco Beacon Initiative: Executive summary
A summary of a program evaluation of the San Francisco Beacon Initiative (SFBI), a community-based after school program
Executive Summary
Attention in the preschool classroom: The relationships among child gender, child misbehavior, and types of teacher attention
A journal article on the relationship of types of teacher attention to students to child gender and misbehavior
Reports & Papers
The attitudes of early childhood teachers toward gender roles and toward discipline
An examination of teachers’ attitudes toward gender roles and discipline of male and female students, based on a sample of 131 early childhood teachers
Reports & Papers
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
Reports & Papers
Children at play: The role of peers in understanding the effects of child care
A commentary on studies that identify the potential of child care to shape children’s adjustment, emphasizing the role of peers, specifically peers' same-sex preferences and patterns of behavior
Other
The cooking teacher: Investigating gender stereotypes in a Korean kindergarten
A study of the influence of an anti-bias cooking curriculum on children’s gendered beliefs and behaviors in a Korean kindergarten
Reports & Papers
A day in preschool: Variation in children's classroom engagement
A summary of an examination of the variation in preschool children's positive and negative engagement with teachers, peers, and tasks, and of the relationship between engagement and both classroom activity settings and child's age and gender, based on data from 283 socioeconomically and linguistically diverse children, 34 through 63 months old, drawn from 84 classrooms
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Developmental effects of infant care: The mediating role of gender and health
A study of the mediating role of gender and health on the effects of child care during infancy on cognitive, motor, and social development using data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
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The developmental influence of sex composition in preschool classrooms: Boys fare worse in preschool classrooms with more boys
An examination of the relationship between the gender composition of preschool classrooms and rates of development in boys and girls, based on a study of 806 children from 70 urban preschool classrooms
Reports & Papers
Developmental precursors of externalizing behavior: Ages 1 to 3
A study of the association of various factors, including gender and maternal responsiveness, to later externalizing behavior in children at ages two and three, based on observations of 100 mother-child dyads from low-income families
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The Early Communication Indicator for infants and toddlers: Early Head Start growth norms from two states
A study of the relationship between patterns of growth in communication and gender, Individualized Family Service Plans (IFSP) status, and home language environment and a second study of patterns of growth in gestures, vocalizations, and single- and multiple-word utterances and IFSP status, based on data from 27 Early Head Start programs and 5,882 children in the Midwest
Reports & Papers
Early gender differences in self-regulation and academic achievement
An exploration of gender differences in children’s abilities to self-regulate their behavior and their discrepancies in academic achievement, and an inquiry into the correlation between direct measures versus teacher ratings of students' behavior, based on a sample of 268 kindergarteners from 87 classrooms in 12 schools in a public school district in southeast Michigan
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Early school competence: The roles of sex-segregated play and effortful control
A journal article examining the relationship of same-sex peer play interactions to early school competence, as moderated by effortful control, a type of voluntary self-regulation
Reports & Papers
Effect of 4 weeks of Pilates on the body composition of young girls
A comparison between the impact of 5 day per week, 4 week Pilates class intervention on 16 11 year old girls' Body Mass Index percentile, waist circumference, blood pressure, and enjoyment of the class compared to 14 controls recruited from two after school programs in Spring 2005
Reports & Papers
Effect of early childhood education on school readiness
An examination of the relationship between early education program participation and school readiness and differences between male and female school readiness screening scores upon students' entrance into kindergarten for 321 students in a rural school district in Missouri from 1995-1996 through 2008-2009
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The effect of gender on children's social behavior in a limited resource situation: An observational study
An examination of the effect of gender, gender group composition, and social competence on children’s competition over limited resources, with unfamiliar peers, at individual and group levels in Australia
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The efficacy of early childhood interventions: A report prepared for the Australian Government [Executive summary]
An executive summary of an evaluation of the impact of a sample of public programs in Australia, the United States and other countries which aim to improve early childhood development and children's health, focusing on cost-effectiveness and sustainability of the benefits of these interventions
Executive Summary
Emotional expressiveness during peer conflicts: A predictor of social maladjustment among high-risk preschoolers
A short-term longitudinal inquiry into the correlation between emotional processes and children’s social functioning in preschool, based on a sample of 60 four- to five-year old children from eight Head Start classrooms
Reports & Papers
Entering kindergarten: A portrait of American children when they begin school: Findings from The condition of education 2000
An overview of early academic skills, knowledge, health, and behavior, and variations in these factors by gender and parent characteristics, among first-time kindergarteners at kindergarten entry, based on data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998�99 (ECLS-K)
Other
Explaining girls' advantage in kindergarten literacy learning: Do classroom behaviors make a difference?
A study, using data collected from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Cohort of 1998–1999 (ECLS-K), investigating gender differences in kindergarteners' literacy skills, specifically, whether differences in children’s classroom behaviors explained females’ early learning advantage
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An exploration of the differences in prekindergarten, kindergarten, and first grade teachers' beliefs related to discipline when dealing with male and female students
A study of early childhood teachers’ beliefs about the use of different discipline philosophies for the misbehavior of male and female students, as measured by the Beliefs About Discipline Inventory (BADI)
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Fractured or manufactured: Gendered identities and culture in the early years
A discussion of gender identity formation, using the debate regarding the potential gendering effects of the Barbie doll on young children's self concept as a case example
Other
Gender choreography and micro-structures: Early childhood professionals' understanding of gender roles and gender patterns in outdoor play and learning
An exploration of the implementation of gender parity values in the context of preschool play and learning, based on observations of staff at 4 preschools in Sweden
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Homophobia, sexism, and early childhood education: A review of the literature
An exploration of the dynamics homophobia and sexism in early childhood settings, based on a review of 31 studies on gender and sexuality published between 1975 and 2007
Literature Review
Infant childcare settings and the development of gender-specific adaptive behaviors
A study of the effects of infant care arrangements on mothers and teachers’ independent perceptions of the adaptive behaviors of 4 ½ year old children in the areas of communication, daily living skills, socialization, and motor skills, based on a sample of 81 middle and upper middle class families from a large metropolitan area
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