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Assessing social competence in early childhood
Atkins-Burnett, Sally, 1997
In B. Spodek & O.N. Saracho (Eds.), Issues in early childhood educational assessment and evaluation (Vol. 7, pp. 149-178). New York: Teachers College Press

A discussion of the definition of social competence and its importance for young children, and a summary of the various instruments use to measure social competence throughout early childhood years

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Bringing it together: Merging community-based, life-course, linked data, and social indicator approaches to monitoring child development: Proceedings from the Early Childhood Learning Knowledge Centre’s Monitoring Committee Workshop
Early Childhood Learning Knowledge Centre, February, 2008
Ottawa, Ontario: Canadian Council on Learning.

A discussion of Canada’s need for more comprehensive data on early childhood development, and a proposal of four data collection methods to address this need

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Child care and child health: Use of population surveys
Cain, Virginia S., December 1994
Pediatrics, 94(6), 1096-1098

A discussion of the use of a population-based sample survey approach to the study of the health of children in child care

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Data collection and system monitoring in early childhood programs
Olmsted, Patricia P., 2002
(Early Childhood and Family Policy Series No. 5). Paris: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

Guidelines for early childhood policy-relevant data collection and system monitoring

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Data collection for building early learning systems: Using data for real world decision-making
Vinci, Yasmina, 2002
Washington, DC: National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies.

A report comparing potential sources of data for use in child care decisionmaking

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Data needs in early childhood education and care
Bennett, John, 2002
Paris: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

A paper on improving early childhood education and care data collection and developing national indicators of school readiness

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Data watch: The national longitudinal surveys
Pergamit, Michael, 2001
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 15(2), 239-253

A discussion of the kinds of research questions regarding employment, education, training, family relations, financial well-being and health, that can be addressed with the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979.

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Developmental research, public policy, and the ecology of the child
Bronfenbrenner, Urie, 1974
Child Development, 45(1), 1-5

An argument for ecologically valid child care research and current social policy as basis for forming theoretical questions, designing further research, and making child care policy decisions

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Editorial: Special Issue: Listening to young children's voices in research: Changing perspectives/changing relationships
Schiller, Wendy, February 2009
Early Child Development and Care, 179(2), 125-130

An introduction to a special issue of the journal Early Child Development and Care, focusing on the act of listening to children as a data collection method in child development and education research

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Effective and ethical and interviewing of young children in pedagogical context
Dunphy, Elizabeth, 2005
European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 13(2), 79-95

An account of the use of experience-based flexible focused interviewing as a data collection method in a study of the numeracy skills of 14 4- and 5-year-old children from suburban Dublin, Ireland

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The effects of quality of care on child development
Lamb, Michael E., 2000
Applied Developmental Science, 4(3), 112-115

An introduction to a special issue of Applied Developmental Science, with a focus on the measurement of child care quality and the relationship between quality of care and children’s development

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FACES Instrument Matrix
Child Care & Early Education Research Connections, Summer 2010
New York: Child Care & Early Education Research Connections

The Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) uses many instruments to collect data. This document provides a complete list of the FACES instruments indexed in the Research Connections? database. Every instrument is hyperlinked to its corresponding record and ?X?s designate which cohorts they were used in. Other alpha characters represent the instruments? availability: OS = obtainable through the original source; RC = obtainable through Research Connections. While all instruments are listed, those instruments that are copyrighted are not available. To access a particular instrument, click on the appropriate link.

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Guide to datasets for research and policymaking in child care and early education
Romero, Mariajose, 2006
New York: Child Care & Early Education Research Connections

An annotated bibliography of existing large-scale datasets that provide useful information to policymakers, researchers, and others in the field of child care and early education

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How can cultural-historical theory be used as a methodological dialectic?
Ridgway, Avis, September, 2010
European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 18(3), 159-176

A philosophical discussion and application of the past-present dialectic as a conceptual tool to collect information of adult memories of their preschool experiences, based on select data from a case study of one family in Australia studied for the author's doctoral dissertation

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HSIS Instrument Matrix
Child Care & Early Education Research Connections, Winter 2012
New York: Child Care & Early Education Research Connections

The Head Start Impact Study (HSIS) uses many instruments to collect data. This document provides a complete list of the HSIS instruments indexed in the Research Connections? database. Every instrument is hyperlinked to its corresponding record and ?X?s designate which cohorts they were used in. Other alpha characters represent the instruments? availability: OS = obtainable through the original source; RC = obtainable through Research Connections. While all instruments are listed, those instruments that are copyrighted are not available. To access a particular instrument, click on the appropriate link.

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Issues in designing state accountability systems
Harbin, Gloria, August 2004
Lexington, KY: State Preschool Accountability Research Collaborative.

A resource for state policymakers to help guide their decisions in terms of collaboratively designing and implementing accountability models for early childhood programs that result in accurate data

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Issues in implementing state preschool program evaluations
Schweinhart, Lawrence J., 2001
Paper presented at Assessing the State of State Assessments: A Symposium, Atlanta, Georgia.

A discussion on designing and implementing an evaluation of a state preschool program, with a focus on the multifaceted evaluation of the Michigan School Readiness Program (MSRP)

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Laying the foundation for a ready state: the Early Childhood DataCONNections Project: A report on successes & opportunities to support policy decisions with data
Child Health and Development Institute of Connecticut, 2006
Farmington, CT: Child Health and Development Institute of Connecticut.

Highlights of the accomplishments and methods of the Early Childhood DataCONNections Project, with recommendations for future early childhood data and research capacity building in Connecticut

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Measuring father involvement in the Early Head Start Evaluation: A multidimensional conceptualization
Cabrera, Natasha J., 1999
Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research.

An overview of available methods and data sources for assessing father involvement, as well as of measures used in the father studies of the Early Head Start Evaluation Project.

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Measuring father involvement in young children's lives: Recommendations for a fatherhood module for the ECLS-B
Greene, Angela D., 2001
(Working Paper No. 2001-02). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.

A report on the identification and measurement of aspects of father involvement affecting the outcomes of young children and on methodological challenges in measuring father involvement in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort

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Measuring preschool costs and revenues: Issues and answers
Kelley, Pamela J., 2002
New Brunswick, NJ: National Institute of Early Education Research.

A collection of papers on issues surrounding the measurement of preschools' costs and revenues used in cost analyses

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Monitoring classroom behavior in early childhood: Using group observation data to make decisions
Krasch, Delilah, June 2009
Early Childhood Education Journal, 36(6), 475-482

A presentation of methods for data collection on children’s ability to follow expectations, engage academically, and transition between activities

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New England early care and education workforce models for data collection
New England Workforce Partners for Early Care and Education, 2002
Portland, ME: Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service, Institute for Child and Family Policy.

A report on issues surrounding the measurement and collection of data on topics related to the child care workforce

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New England Workforce Partners for Early Care and Education: Summary report of the third quarterly meeting: June 5, 2001
New England Workforce Partners for Early Care and Education, 2001
Portland, ME: Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service.

A quarterly report from the New England Workforce Partners for Early Care and Education meeting, with an emphasis on data collection methods for use in studies

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Professional development and preschool intervention research: I would rather have a talking frog
Griffin, James A., May 2009
Early Education and Development, 20(3), 373-376

An introduction to a special issue of Early Childhood Education and Development, focusing on the need to report on professional development components of early childhood intervention research studies carried out by the Interagency School Readiness Consortium (ISRC)

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