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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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Achieving excellence in early care for Virginia's infants and toddlers A discussion of the role of data collection in the improvement of the quality of early childhood education and care programs in Virginia |
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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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Alternative methods for Minnesota’s market rate study of child care prices [Executive summary] A summary of 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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Alternative methods for Minnesota's market rate study of child care prices: Technical appendices An appendix to 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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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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Assessing the quality of early years learning environments A study on the design and validation of instruments used to measure aspects of high quality in early child learning environments in Northern Irish primary schools and Danish kindergartens |
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Assessing social competence in early childhood 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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Assessment of preschool classroom practices: Application of Q-sort methodology An evaluation of the Preschool Classroom Practices Q-Sort, a measure designed to assess the relation between preschool educator's beliefs and practices and the effectiveness of their classroom practices |
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Attachment behavior of day-care children: Naturalistic and laboratory observations A study of the relationships between child care and attachment behavior through naturalistic and laboratory observations |
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A birth cohort study: Conceptual design considerations and rationale A discussion of issues related to the conceptualization and design of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort |
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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 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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Building an educative community for early childhood development A report on a pilot project to implement action research in a South African early care and education setting |
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Building futures: The Head Start impact study: Research design plan A report describing the sampling, data collection, and analytical techniques to be used in the Head Start impact evaluation. |
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By default or by design?: Variations in higher education programs for early care and education teachers and their implications for research methodology, policy, and practice An examination of conceptual and methodological issues in the study of early care and education higher education programs, based on a case study of two early childhood Bachelor of Arts degree completion cohort programs |
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By default or by design?: Variations in higher education programs for early care and education teachers and their implications for research methodology, policy, and practice: Executive summary A summary of an examination of conceptual and methodological issues in the study of early care and education higher education programs, based on a case study of two early childhood Bachelor of Arts degree completion cohort programs |
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''Catch the future'': Literacy and numeracy pathways for young children: Voices from the field A description of two qualitative methodologies adopted for a research project in Australia examining literacy and numeracy pathways for young children’s learning in the year before school entry |
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The Chicago Program Evaluation Project: C-PEP: What is C-PEP?: An independent evaluation of early childhood education conducted by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. with funding support from McCormick Foundation An overview of the methodology used to conduct a study of four-year-old children and their experiences in early childhood education programs in Chicago in the 2006-2007 school year |
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Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP): Improper payments data collection pilot project A comparison of the quality and costs of four methods for estimating the true number of meals served by family child care homes participating in the Child and Adult Care Food Program in order to reduce improper payments to providers for submitting erroneous meal counts |
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Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP): Improper payments data collection pilot project [Executive summary] A summary of a comparison of the quality and costs of four methods for estimating the true number of meals served by family child care homes participating in the Child and Adult Care Food Program in order to reduce improper payments to providers for submitting erroneous meal counts |
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Child care and child development: The NICHD Study of Early Child Care A description of the theoretical framework for the National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care, assessing relationships among family life, child care processes and child behavioral development |
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Child care and child health: Use of population surveys 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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Childcare and early years providers survey 2010: Survey materials Survey materials from a study of child care and early education provider characteristics in England by provider type, including characteristics related to children served, provider income, and staff size, wages, recruitment, qualifications, and training |
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Childcare and early years providers survey 2010: Technical report Methods used in a study of child care and early education provider characteristics in England by provider type, including characteristics related to children served, provider income, and staff size, wages, recruitment, qualifications, and training |
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Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey 2011: Technical report An overview of the research design, data collection, and sample weighting for a study of child care and early education provider characteristics in England by provider type, including enrollment, profitability, and staff characteristics and qualifications |
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