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Acculturation, weight status, and eating habits among Chinese-American preschool children and their primary caregivers: A pilot study An examination of the association between acculturation and health outcomes of Chinese-American students and their primary caregivers, based on a sample of 53 children and their caregivers selected from two child care centers in Houston, Texas |
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An analysis of a public school prekindergarten Montessori bilingual program An analysis of second grade reading achievement scores of Spanish and English norm-referenced tests between children who participated in a Montessori bilingual program and those that attended a traditional bilingual program |
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Balancing the readiness equation in early childhood education reform A case study of the design and implementation of an assessment tool that defines and aligns teacher academic performance expectations for students with school district standards from field notes, document analysis and interviews with 11 assessment task force members and 15 staff of a prekindergarten program in an urban district in Texas |
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Child care and the development of behavior problems among economically disadvantaged children in middle childhood A study of the relationship between low-income children's development of behavior problems during middle childhood and child care quality, extent and type of care, as well as an examination of child characteristics, gender, and race-ethnicity, as moderators of the development of behavior problems, based on data from 349 7- through 11-year-old participants in the Three-City Study |
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Child care and the family: Complex contributors to child development A discussion on the benefits and detriments of long term child care to child development |
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Child care and low-income children's development: Direct and moderated effects A study determining the effect of child care quality on low-income children's cognitive and social development, utilizing data from the Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study |
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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 communication and socialization skills by types of early childhood experiences An investigation of the relation between experiences in different early childhood settings and children's social development, based on a sample of 244 kindergarteners from a suburb of the Dallas and Fort Worth metropolitan areas in Texas |
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Children's graphical representations and emergent writing: Evidence from children's drawings A study of the Chinese pictographic and English ideographic characters appearing in the drawings of ten children aged 4-5 at Austin Chinese School |
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Children with severe behavior problems: A survey of Texas child care centers' responses A journal article on the prevalence of and actions taken in response to behavioral problems of children in center-based care in Texas |
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Conceptualizations of readiness and the content of early learning standards: The intersection of policy and research? An analysis of 46 state-level early education standards documents to investigate the specific areas of development addressed in order to determine how different states conceptualize school readiness |
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Cross-sectional predictors of reading to young children among participants in the Texas WIC program An analysis of survey data from a sample of 600 mothers visiting selected Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) clinics in Texas in 2003, on their knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors concerning reading to their young children |
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Differential effects of high-quality child care An analysis of data collected from the Infant Health and Development Program examining the differential causal effects of access to high quality child care for at risk children who would otherwise have participated in one of three child care options: no non-maternal care, home-based non-maternal care, and center-based care |
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Does maternal employment following childbirth support or inhibit low-income children's long-term development? An analysis of the relationship between maternal employment in the two years after childbearing and children's cognitive and behavioral functioning at age 7, with additional analyses of the moderating roles of race/ethnicity and child care type on that relationship, based on data from 444 urban, low-income, predominantly African American and Hispanic families from the Three-City Study, a longitudinal, multi-method analysis of the well-being of low income children and families in Boston, San Antonio, and Chicago following welfare reform |
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Early daycare attendance increase the risk for respiratory infections and asthma of children A study of the associations between both the quantity and type of child care used and the occurrence of both respiratory tract infections and allergic symptoms in children, based on questionnaire responses of 3,766 parents In the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program in northeast Texas |
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Economic deprivation and early childhood development A study of the impact of poverty and poverty correlates such as ethnicity, maternal education, neighborhood conditions and single parenthood on child cognitive and behavioral development, using longitudinal data from the Infant Health and Development program |
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Effectiveness of a colonia educational intervention An evaluation of the effects of an after school educational intervention on the self-esteem and health locus of control of seven- to 12-year-old Hispanic children living in a colonia, an unincorporated subdivision lacking the infrastructure to support its residents |
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Effectiveness of comprehensive professional development for teachers of at-risk preschoolers An investigation into the effect of the Center for Improving the Readiness of Children for Learning and Education (CIRCLE) Preschool Early Language and Literacy Training professional development intervention coupled with 4 combinations of mentoring and electronic or written feedback on teachers’ promotion of at-risk children’s development of early language and emergent literacy skills, based on samples of 262 early childhood teachers placed in one of 4 variations of the CIRCLE intervention or in a control group, and 1,786 preschool students |
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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 |
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The effect of music instruction on prekindergartners' mathematics ability An examination of music instruction on prekindergartners' mathmatical ability |
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Effects of a brief tiered language intervention for prekindergartners at risk An examination of the impact of a language intervention for at risk children with whole-group and small-group instruction on the vocabulary skills of children, a study of the moderating relationship of initial language skills on those effects, as well as a study of teacher beliefs regarding oral language instruction, based on data from 39 early care and education programs in a large urban area in Texas |
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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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Effects of preschool curriculum programs on school readiness: Report from the Preschool Curriculum Evaluation Research initiative The final report from the Preschool Curriculum Evaluation Research initiative, which conducted multi-site experimental evaluations of 14 preschool curricula's impacts on child outcomes (including behavior and early language, literacy, and math skills) at the end of preschool and in kindergarten, and on preschool classroom outcomes (including classroom quality, teacher-child interactions, and instructional practices) |
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Effects of the structure of classmates’ perceptions of peers’ academic abilities on children’s perceived cognitive competence, peer acceptance, and engagement An examination of the impact of the structure of peers’ perceptions of classmates’ academic abilities on children’s social acceptance, self-perceived cognitive competence, and teacher-rated classroom engagement, based on evaluations of 291 first grade students |
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Enhancing early literacy skills for preschool children: Bringing a professional development model to scale A two-year evaluation of a professional development program designed to help Head Start preschool teachers promote young children's early literacy skills, comparing children's literacy skills with the literacy skills of children whose teachers did not receive any professional development training |
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