The 2011-2012 Maryland Model for School Readiness report: Children entering school ready to learn
A summary of findings from teacher assessments of the school readiness of Maryland kindergartners during the fall of 2011
Executive Summary
Academic performance of subsequent schools and impacts of early interventions: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Head Start settings
A comparison of the impact of exposure to the Chicago School Readiness intervention during the Head Start year on children's language, literacy, and math and behavioral outcomes between kindergarteners in both high and low performing schools, based on secondary analysis of data from 361 children who were participants in the Chicago School Readiness Program
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Accelerometer measured level of physical activity indoors and outdoors during preschool time in Sweden and the United States
A comparison of young children's physical activity and sedentary behavior during indoor and outdoor time for both boys and girls in Swedish and United States settings, based on data from 50 children with an average age of 52 months, at two sites in Malmo, Sweden and two sites in Raleigh, North Carolina
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Accuracy of teacher judgments of preschoolers' math skills
A study of the relationship between teachers' judgments of children's math skills using an indirect rating scale and children's performance on two direct assessments--number sense and geometry and measurement skills, that includes an examination of the alignment between the indirect assessment and the two direct assessments, based on data from 316 preschool children and their teachers, both enrolled in a field trial of a curriculum designed to enhance students' knowledge of math and science
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Activity settings and daily routines in preschool classrooms: Diverse experiences in early learning settings for low-income children
An identification of two routines profiles--structured-balanced and high free choice, derived from varying proportions of teacher-directed and child-initiated activities during the preschool day, and a study of the relationship between those routine profiles and structural program characteristics, measures of process quality, children's engagement in activities of various academic contents, teachers' instructional strategies, and children's school readiness skills, based on data from 53 public preschool classrooms, 47 private preschool classrooms, and 25 family child care homes that serve low-income children in Los Angeles, California
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Adolescent emotional and behavioural outcomes of nonparental preschool childcare
An examination of the relationship between nonparental early child care and adolescent mental health outcomes, based on a secondary analysis of data from 197 participants in the Croydon Assessment of Learning Study in the United Kingdom
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African American preschool children's physical activity levels in Head Start
A description of the physical activity levels of children attending Head Start programs, and a determination of the extent to which the children's physical activity varied by age of child, gender, morning or afternoon class time, and Head Start site location, based on data from 158 4- and 5-year-old children at 6 Head Start program sites in a Midwestern metropolitan area in the United States
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Alaska Pilot Pre-Kindergarten Project (AP3): Year two report
An evaluation of the second year of the Alaska Pilot Pre-Kindergarten Project, which provides state funding to school districts for preschool programs, that examines child developmental and program quality outcomes
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Alphabet knowledge in preschool: A Rasch model analysis
An examination of the dimensions of the alphabet knowledge construct and the relative difficulty of different alphabet knowledge tasks--uppercase letter recognition, names, and sounds, and lowercase letter names--within a sample of 335 children recruited from 15 child care and preschool facilities in Fort Wayne, Memphis, and New York City
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Anchoring in 4- to 6-year-old children relates to predictors of reading
Two studies of anchoring--a process that allows individuals to implicitly benefit from contextual information embedded in sequences of stimuli--one that examines the relationship between anchoring and rapid naming and phonological short-term memory in children prior to the onset of formal reading instruction, and a second study that examines the unique contribution that anchoring makes to performance in two early predictors of reading--letter knowledge and phonological awareness--with the first study based on data from 55 children attending municipal preschools in and around Haifa, Israel, and the second study based on data from 69 native Hebrew-speaking children attending municipal preschools in Northern Israel
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Appendix I: Literature review: Literature review of the participation of disadvantaged children and families in ECEC services in Europe
A review of research in European Union member states on barriers to and promising practices regarding disadvantaged children's and families' access to early childhood education and care (ECEC) and on the relationship of ECEC participation to children's cognitive and socioemotional outcomes
Literature Review
Approaches to assessing the language and literacy skills of young dual language learners: A review of the research
A summary of a review of the procedures used to assess the language and literacy development of young dual language learners, based on 80 studies from Canada and the United States
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Are two years better than one year?: A propensity score analysis of the impact of Head Start program duration on children's school performance in kindergarten
A comparison of academic and social outcomes by the end of kindergarten between children who attended Head Start for two years and the ones who attended for one year, based on data from 1,778 Head Start children from the Family and Child Experience Survey (FACES)
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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
Executive Summary
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
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Assessing Spanish-English bilingual preschoolers: A guide to best approaches and measures
A guide to early childhood bilingual assessment and a review of 37 developmental assessments available in English and Spanish
Other
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
Fact Sheets & Briefs
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
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 center-based care accreditation status and the early educational outcomes of children in the child welfare system
A study of the relationship between child care center accreditation and the developmental and early academic outcomes of children in the child welfare system receiving child care subsidies, based on data from two groups of 82 low income three- and four-year old children, one group in the child welfare system and one not, enrolled in community-based early care and education centers in Miami-Dade County, Florida
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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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Attributes of child care centers and outdoor play areas associated with preschoolers' physical activity and sedentary behavior
An examination of the association between characteristics of child care centers and both children's moderate-to-vigorous physical activity and sedentary behavior, as well as a study of the attributes of outdoor play areas associated with the same behaviors during outdoor time, based on data from 89 3- to 5-year-olds from 10 child care centers in Brisbane, Australia
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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
Fact Sheets & Briefs
A behavior-genetic study of the legacy of early caregiving experiences: Academic skills, social competence, and externalizing behavior in kindergarten
A behavior-genetic study of associations between early parental support and academic skills, social competence, and externalizing behavior in kindergarten, based on assessments, at 24 months and approximately age 4, of a sample of 485 same-sex twin pairs from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), born in 2001, and tracked through kindergarten
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