2003-04 kindergarten readiness survey: Stakeholders' report
Results of a survey measuring the effect of preschools and child care in preparing students to enter primary school in Wyoming, based on a sample of children who received free or reduced lunch services in kindergarten
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Accountability for after-school care: Devising standards and measuring adherence to them
A report evaluating school-based after-school programs administered by Stone Soup Child Care Programs, using a methodology and instruments developed from a review of good after-school program practices
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An action plan: Assessing school readiness in Ventura County
A series of recommendations for establishing a school readiness assessment measure in Ventura County, California, and a survey of school administrators and teachers to determine existing school readiness assessment practices and future preferences for the selection of a measurement
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Adjustment Scales for Preschool Intervention: Extending validity and relevance across multiple perspectives
Two studies evaluating the behavioral and emotional difficulties of Head Start preschool children, and assessing the reliability and concurrent validity of the Adjustment Scales for Preschool Intervention (ASPI)
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Administrative data as children's well-being indicators: The South Carolina Data Bridge Project
An account of the South Carolina Data Bridge Project's compilation and analysis of census tract and county administrative data from multiple governmental sources to inform the creation, implementation, finance allocation, and monitoring of quality-related child care policies and regulations, and a demonstration of its use in an initiative to implement and monitor the uptake of a sanitation regulation throughout the state
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Afterschool evaluation practices in California: Site-level perspectives
An exploration of evaluation practices used by after school programs and a discussion of the evaluation needs of programs to improve service delivery, based on a survey of program coordinators of 271 after school programs funded by the 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) program and the After School Education and Safety (ASES) initiative in California
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Agreement and stability of teacher rating scales for assessing ADHD in preschoolers
An investigation of the agreement and stability of three teacher rating scales used to assess Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in preschool children, based on a sample of 60 children
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Alternative methods for Minnesota's market rate study of child care prices
A proposal of changes to the design and data collection methods used in market rate studies of child care prices conducted by Minnesota, including a discussion on the treatment of geographic locations, price modes and conversions, school-aged care, and non-standard hour care
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America's children: Key national indicators of well-being, 1997
Results from the federal government’s Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics 1997 annual report which consists of twenty-five key indicators that measure critical aspects of children’s lives and well-being, specifically relating to their economic security, health, behavior, social environment, and education
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America's children: Key national indicators of well-being, 1998
Results from the federal government’s Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics 1998 annual report which consists of twenty-three key indicators that measure critical aspects of children’s lives and well-being, specifically relating to their economic security, health, behavior, social environment, and education
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America's children: Key national indicators of well-being, 1999
An annual summary of national indicators of child well-being designed to monitor change over time
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America's children: Key national indicators of well-being, 2000
An annual report of national indicators of child well-being designed to monitor change over time
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The application of the preschool Child Behavior Checklist and the Caregiver-Teacher Report Form to mainland Chinese children: Syndrome structure, gender differences, country effects, and inter-informant agreement
A test of the cross-cultural factorial validity of the Child Behavior Checklist and the Caregiver-Teacher Report Form, the applicability of the taxonomy of preschool psychopathology they embody to Mainland Chinese preschoolers, an examination of country effects, gender differences, and cross-informant agreement between teachers and parents, based on data from 876 Chinese preschoolers and the original United States sample upon which the instruments were normed
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Are children worse off?: Evaluating child well-being using a new (and improved) measure of poverty
A report analyzing data from the Current Population Survey (CPS), the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), and the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) to determine whether low-income children are at more of a disadvantage than low-income adults
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Are the indicators for the Language and Reasoning Subscale of the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale-Revised psychometrically appropriate for Caribbean classrooms?
A test of the appropriateness of the indicators used in the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale-Revised (ECERS-R) Language and Reasoning Subscale in a sample of 334 early childhood classrooms in Jamaica and Grenada
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Assessing changes in socioemotional adjustment across early school transitions: New national scales for children at risk
This article reports the development and evidence for validity and application of the Adjustment Scales for Early Transition in Schooling (ASETS). Based on primary analyses of data from the Head Start Impact Study, a nationally representative sample (N=3077) of randomly selected children from low-income households is configured to inform developmental-transitional stability and change in socioemotional adjustment. Longitudinal exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis of the ASETS revealed behavioral dimensions of Aggression, Attention Seeking, Reticence/Withdrawal, Low Energy, and higher-order dimensions of Overactivity and Underactivity. Each dimension was vertically equated through IRT, with Bayesian scoring across 2 years of prekindergarten, kindergarten, and 1st grade. Multilevel modeling provides evidence for concurrent validity, assessment of future risk, and detection of differential growth trajectories across the 4 years of early school transition. (author abstract)
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Assessing child-care quality with a telephone interview
A test of the viability of telephone surveys as an alternative to direct observation methods to assess quality in child care sites, based on a comparison of assessments of 89 family child-care homes and 92 centers using both methods
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Assessing costs and benefits of early childhood intervention programs: Overview and applications to the Starting Early Starting Smart program
A discussion of issues for policymakers to consider in assessing the direct, monetary costs and benefits to early childhood intervention programs, based on information from the assessment of Starting Early Starting Smart (SESS)
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Assessing the development of young children in child care: A survey of formal assessment practices in one state
A survey based study of Florida counties' use of specific tools and formal assessment procedures for the development of young children in subsidized child care
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Assessing health and safety in early care and education programs: Development of the CCHP Health and Safety Checklist
An account of the development and testing of the California Childcare Health Program (CCHP) Health and Safety Checklist, an observational instrument used to assess compliance with national health and safety standards in child care and early education environments
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Assessing the impact of pediatric-based developmental services on infants, families, and clinicians: challenges to evaluating the Healthy Steps program
A description of the design, site characteristics, and sample used in the Healthy Steps program evaluation
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Assessing inclusion quality in early learning and child care in Canada with the SpeciaLink Child Care Inclusion Practices Profile and Principles Scale
A study of the internal reliability and structural properties of the SpeciaLink Inclusion Principles Scale and the SpeciaLink Inclusion Practices Profile, two measures of inclusion quality, based on data collected in almost 600 classrooms in 216 child care centers and preschool programs in Canada
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Assessing Indiana's health and safety in early care and education programs: Identifying areas for improvement
An identification of national health and safety standards in the Indiana Health and Safety Checklist that are met and not met in a sample of early care and education (ECE) programs, and study of the reliability of the checklist, based on data from trained child care health consultants in 82 ECE programs
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Assessing language, literacy, and mathematics skills with Work Sampling for Head Start
A study of the validity and reliability of the Work Sampling for Head Start instrument, a modified version of the Work Sampling System for the assessment of early reading, language, and math, in a sample of 112 children enrolled in Saint Paul Public Schools CHOICE program
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Assessing the local need for family and child care services: A small area utilization analysis
A study to identify a set of needs indicators to guide resource allocation of family and child care services, by examining the relationship between the costs of services and socioeconomic characteristics in 498 small areas in Northern Ireland
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