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Assessing the development of young children in child care: A survey of formal assessment practices in one state
Allen, Susan F., June 2007
Early Childhood Education Journal, 34(6), 455-465

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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Counting the child care workforce: A catalog of state data sources to quantify and describe child caregivers in the fifty states and the District of Columbia
Breunig, Gretchen Stahr, 2003
Seattle: University of Washington, Human Services Policy Center.

A report on data sources suitable for use in calculating the size of the child care workforce for individual states

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Early care and education collaborative: Evaluation report
Harvard Family Research Project, 2002
Paper presented at a meeting of the Early Care and Education Collaborative, Kansas City, Missouri.

An evaluation of the design and implementation of strategic communications collaborative aimed at creating the public will and investments needed for quality and comprehensive state early care and education systems in Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Missouri, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania

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The Early Childhood Cluster Initiative of Palm Beach County, Florida: Early implementation study and evaluability assessment: Final report
Spielberger, Julie, 2006
Chicago: University of Chicago, Chapin Hall Center for Children.

An implementation evaluation and recommendations for ongoing evaluation efforts of the Early Childhood Cluster Initiative, a comprehensive, high-quality preschool education program for children in low-income communities in Palm Beach County, Florida, based on interviews with key stakeholders, teacher surveys, program observations, and a review of documents

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Identifying preschool children at risk of later reading difficulties: Evaluation of two emergent literacy screening tools
Wilson, Shauna B., January/February 2010
Journal of Learning Disabilities, 43(1), 62-76

A study of the predictive validity of the Revised Get Ready to Read and the Individual Growth and Development Indicators screening tests with 176 preschool children in 21 preschools in North Florida

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Improving and rating the quality of early care and education in Florida
Mitchell, Anne W., June, 2007
Auburndale, FL: The Policy Group for Florida's Families and Children.

An identification of issues regarding the State of Florida’s efforts to implement a statewide Quality Rating System (QRS) to improve and communicate the quality of individual child care sites, based on a survey of stakeholders

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Informal numeracy skills: The structure and relations among numbering, relations, and arithmetic operations in preschool
Purpura, David J., February, 2013
American Educational Research Journal, 50(1), 178-209

An examination of both the structure and relationships among three numeracy skill domains--numbering, relations, and arithmetic operations, based on data from 393 children from 45 public and private early care and education centers serving children from families with low to middle socioeconomic statuses living in two counties in northern Florida

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K-2 standards and assessments: A 50-state review
Kauerz, Kristie, June, 2006
Philadelphia: National Early Childhood Accountability Task Force.

A descriptive study of each state's kindergarten, first grade, and second grade content standards and mandatory assessments

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A map for you?: Geographic information systems in the social services
Queralt, Magaly, 1998
Social Work, 43(5), 455-469

A presentation of geographic information systems and its illustrative application to the social services, such as creating a map showing child care service providers’ location and characteristics and mapping the ratio of child care slots to the number of children in a population to locate areas with potential service-availability gaps

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National Household Education Surveys program of 2005: After-school programs and activities: 2005
Carver, Priscilla R., 2006
(E.D. TAB, NCES 2006-076). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.

An examination of data from the After-School Programs and Activities survey on the participation of kindergarteners through eighth graders in after school programs, with discussion of the survey’s design, the different types of after school care, their participation rates, and the expenses surrounding various types of after school care

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Parent-teacher agreement and reliability on the Devereux Early Childhood Assessment (DECA) in English and Spanish for ethnically diverse children living in poverty
Crane, Jennifer, May, 2011
Early Education and Development, 22(3), 520-547

An examination of the internal consistency reliability and parent-teacher agreement on the Devereux Early Childhood Assessment, English and Spanish forms, a 37-item parent- and teacher-report instrument of children's initiative, self-control, attachment, protective factors, and behavioral concerns, for use with children 2- through 5-years-old, based on data from a sample of 7,756 impoverished, ethnically diverse preschoolers in Miami, Florida

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Practices and policies: Market rate surveys in states, territories, and tribes
Weber, Roberta B. (Bobbie), May 2007
Corvallis, OR: Oregon Child Care Research Partnership

Findings from a study examining current child care market rate survey methods, practices, and policies in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, territories, and tribes, including descriptions of challenges faced by jurisdictions in conducting surveys, and methods of providing study data

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Second error rate pilot report
United States. Child Care Bureau, June, 2007
Washington, DC: U.S. Child Care Bureau.

A study of a methodology for measuring improper payments in states' administration of the Child Care and Development Fund

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Spanish phonological awareness: Dimensionality and sequence of development during the preschool and kindergarten years
Anthony, Jason L., November, 2011
Journal of Educational Psychology, 103(4), 857-876

A psychometric validation of the dimensionality and continuum of Spanish phonological awareness in preschoolers and kindergartners and a second psychometric study of the sequence of emergence of Spanish Phonological awareness skills in preschoolers and kindergartners, based on data from 1,265 monolingual and bilingual children 3- through 6-years old in four program evaluation projects in Texas and Florida

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Teacher and observer ratings of Head Start children's social skills
Milfort, Roline, 2002
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 17(4), 581-595

A comparison between teacher and observer ratings of children's play behavior and a test of the construct validity of the Penn Interactive Peer Play Scale

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