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Assessing quality in family, friend and neighbor care: The Child Care Assessment Tool for Relatives A paper describing the Child Care Assessment Tool for Relatives, an instrument designed to measure quality of child care provided by relatives, in terms of its development and the results of a field test where it was used with low income relative caregivers |
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Confirmatory program evaluation: Applications to early childhood interventions A discussion of confirmatory program evaluation as a method for conducting theory driven evaluations, and its role in identifying causal mechanisms of change in early childhood interventions, with examples from the Chicago Longitudinal Study and studies of the Chicago Child-Parent Centers |
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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 A report on data sources suitable for use in calculating the size of the child care workforce for individual states |
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Dosage effects on school readiness: Evidence from a randomized classroom-based intervention A study of dosage effects of a targeted intervention on low-income child behavior problems, emotional and behavioral self-regulation skills, and cognitive development, as well as a study of variation of dosage effects across school readiness measures and the individual components of the Chicago School Readiness Project (CSRP), based on data from 602 children and 90 teachers in 35 Head Start-funded classrooms |
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Early care and education collaborative: Evaluation report 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 homelife interview from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods: Assessment of parenting and home environment for 3- to 15-year-olds A description of the development of the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods Homelife Interview using aspects of the Home Observation for the Measurement of the Environment inventory |
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K-2 standards and assessments: A 50-state review A descriptive study of each state's kindergarten, first grade, and second grade content standards and mandatory assessments |
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Measuring improper payments in the child care program: A pilot project of the ACF Child Care Bureau: Final report A study conducted to find and reduce erroneous payments in specific Health and Human Services programs in California, Nebraska, Arizona, Kansas, Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Ohio and New Hampshire |
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National Household Education Surveys program of 2005: After-school programs and activities: 2005 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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Observations of teacher-child interactions in classrooms serving Latinos and dual language learners: Applicability of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System in diverse settings A test of the validity of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) for the prediction of academic outcomes and the measurement of social interactions in classrooms with varying compositions of English only and dual language learners, based on a secondary analysis of data collected in 721 prekindergarten classrooms in 11 states |
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Practices and policies: Market rate surveys in states, territories, and tribes 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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Preliminary construct and concurrent validity of the Preschool Self-regulation Assessment (PSRA) for field-based research An investigation of preschool children's abilities to self-regulate their emotions, attention, and behavior, and the relationship between self-regulation and children's school readiness, based on data from student testing and teacher reports of 88 children in Head Start classrooms |
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Quasi-experimental estimates of the effects of a preschool intervention An analysis of program impact of student achievement test scores in 806 black Head Start children from kindergarten to grade six in Chicago |
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Research on early childhood interventions in the confirmatory mode A discussion of the use of confirmatory program evaluation as a method for addressing questions in research on early childhood interventions (i.e., reliability of long-term effects of large scale programs) using examples from the Chicago Longitudinal Study |
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State assessment of internal controls: Final report A description of the development and pilot of the State Internal Control Self-Assessment Instrument, an instrument for assessing states' internal controls for preventing improper payments in their administration of the Child Care and Development Fund |
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Welfare reform: Implications of increased work participation for child care A study measuring the extent to which the current child care supply will be sufficient to meet the anticipated demand for care under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, including identifying other challenges that low-income families face in accessing care |
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