The children of LAUP: Executive summary of the First 5 LA Universal Preschool Child Outcomes Study
A summary of an inquiry into the academic, developmental, and health related outcomes of the children enrolled in the universal prekindergarten program of Los Angeles County, California, based on direct assessments and interviews with parents and teachers
Executive Summary
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
Reports & Papers
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's literature and early literacy success: Using the Charlotte Zolotow award collection in early childhood teacher education
Arguments for the use of high quality children's literature by early childhood educators in children's emergent literacy instruction
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Children's perspectives as 'touch downs' in time: Assessing and developing children's understanding simultaneously
A discussion of the collection of children's perspectives in the assessment and development of their learning and their environments, and a presentation of three examples from preschool environments in Sweden
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Children's play preferences: Implications for the preschool education
A study of boys' and girls' preferences for pretend or constructive play based on a study 8801 incidents of play in the mixed-age and gender classrooms of 123 kindergartens in the eastern Slovak Republic
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Children's preferences for group musical activities in child care centres: A cross-cultural study
A cross-cultural research study of children's preferences for group musical activities in child care centres, with 228 young children aged 4–5 years in 7 child care centers in Hong Kong and in the Adelaide City of South Australia
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Children's strategies for agency in preschool
An examination of children’s agency in relation to institutional routines and social order of preschools, with an emphasis on childrens' use of resources and strategies for the negotiation and defense of personal autonomy in the interplay of individual and collective activities in two preschools located in two different areas of a Swedish town comprised of 25 and 42 children in the age range of one 1 to 6 years and staffed by 6 and 8 preschool teachers, respectively
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Classroom composition, childcare history and social development: Are childcare effects disappearing or spreading?
A summary of evidence from a study of the association between the aggregate child care experiences of classrooms of children and the externalization of problem behaviors in the primary school years
Other
Cognitive skill performance among young children living in poverty: Risk, change, and the promotive effects of Early Head Start
An examination of the association between risk factors and the cognitive performance in children 1 to 3 years of age living in poverty and an investigation of the effects of Early Head Start on children’s cognitive skill performance, based on data from the Early Head Start (EHS) Research and Evaluation Project, a prospective study of 3,001 children and families living in poverty
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The complexity of bodily events through an ethnographer’s gaze: Focusing on the youngest children in preschool
A critical ethnographic examination of 1 and 2 year old children that focuses on young children’s becoming, knowing and representation through bodily practices from the author’s participation in daily life in 2 preschools in Norway
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Concentrated affluence, concentrated disadvantage, and children’s readiness for school: A population-based, multi-level investigation
An examination of the relationship between neighborhood-level concentrated affluence/disadvantage and child-level developmental outcomes in a study population of 37,798 Kindergarten children residing in 433 neighborhoods throughout the province of British Columbia, Canada
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The condition of education 2009
An annual statistical report on the status and progress of education in the United States, including data on enrollment trends and early development among preschool children
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Conflict resolution and children’s behaviour: Observing and understanding social and cooperative play in early years educational settings
An examination of conflict in play and its interpretation in light of stress in children's lives and its potential influence on playful learning from the joint observations of 9 children 3-4 years old in a nursery class and joint observations of 11 4-5 years old children in a reception class in one school in Northern England
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Construct and predictive validity evidence for curriculum-based measures of early literacy and numeracy skills in kindergarten
An examination of the internal validity of the Minneapolis Kindergarten Assessment, used to assess common early literacy and numeracy skills developed in and assessed at the end of kindergarten and an examination of its predictive validity for second-grade outcomes in reading and mathematics with 2,180 kindergarten students in the Midwest
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The construction of ‘Toddler’ in early childhood pedagogy
A description of toddler “style” and the play qualities of this style in pedagogy based on a philosophical analysis of toddler peers in Norwegian early child care centers
Other
The construct of social competence: How preschool teachers define social competence in young children
A study of the relationship between teachers’ definitions of children’s social competence and the qualities of the preschool environment, the number of children with social problems, and the support provided to children, based on data collected at 481 community-based and private preschools across two Swedish counties
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Continued impacts of New Mexico PreK on children's readiness for kindergarten: Results from the third year of implementation
A study of the impacts of participation in New Mexico PreK, a state-funded preschool program for four-year-old children offered through a variety of public and community-based providers, on children's receptive vocabulary, early literacy, and early math skills at kindergarten entry
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Continued impacts of New Mexico PreK on children's readiness for kindergarten: Results from the third year of implementation [Executive summary]
A summary of a study of the impacts of participation in New Mexico PreK, a state-funded preschool program for four-year-old children offered through a variety of public and community-based providers, on children's receptive vocabulary, early literacy, and early math skills at kindergarten entry
Executive Summary
Conversation Stations: Promoting language development in young children
A description of the Conversation Stations technique, an interactional student-teacher intervention to encourage children’s oral language development through conversation, including suggestions for improvisation and classroom implementation
Other
Cooperation through movement education and children’s literature
A demonstration of evidence-based practice that integrates movement education with children’s literature in order to promote cooperation among Bengali kindergarteners from an urban public school in the Midwestern United States
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Cortisol patterns at home and child care: Afternoon differences and evening recovery in children attending very high quality full-day center-based child care
A study of the relationship between measurements of classroom quality and changes in children's cortisol levels at three child care centers in upstate New York which score very highly on a measurement of quality
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Counting on working memory when learning to count and to add: A preschool study
A study of the relationship between working memory and both addition and counting skills and a second study of differences between numerical and general vocabulary with 80 French-speaking 3- through 6-year-old children in Belgian kindergartens
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Creating intersubjectivity during socio-dramatic play at an Australian kindergarten
A study of the intersubjective acts in the socio-dramatic play of 28 children from two early education sites in a middle-income suburb of an Australian city
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Crisis in the kindergarten: Why children need to play in school
A review of research on the decline of play and the rise of teacher-directed activities and instruction in kindergarten, with a discussion of the implications for children's development and recommendations for increasing play in kindergarten
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