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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
Lero, Donna S., February 2010
Syndey, Nova Scotia, Canada: SpeciaLink.

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 inclusion quality in early learning and child care in Canada with the SpeciaLink Child Care Inclusion Practices Profile and Principles Scale [Executive summary]
Lero, Donna S., February 2010
Syndey, Nova Scotia, Canada: SpeciaLink.

A summary of 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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Camp Fire Program Quality Assessment
David P. Weikart Center for Youth Program Quality, 2010
Ypsilanti, MI: David P. Weikart Center for Youth Program Quality

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The Camp Program Quality Assessment (Camp PQA): Development and pilot study
Akiva, Tom, April, 2010
Ypsilanti, MI: David P. Weikart Center for Youth Program Quality.

Findings from an exploration of the development, validity, and reliability of the Camp Program Quality Assessment (Camp PQA), an assessment of day and residential camp setting quality, based on data collected at 20 camps

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Child and informant influences on behavioral ratings of preschool children
Phillips, Beth M., April 2010
Psychology in the Schools, 47(4), 374-390

An investigation of relationships among teacher, parent, and observer behavioral ratings of 3- and 4-year-old children within and across children from middle-and low-income backgrounds from 166 preschool children across 2 years of data collection

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Child Care Quality Indicators Scale
Fiene, Richard, August 01, 2010
Harrisburg: Pennsylvania State University, Capital Area Early Childhood Training Institute.

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Child development and childcare in Japan
Anme, Tokie, June, 2010
Journal of Early Childhood Research, 8(2), 193-210

A validity study of a scale to measure the physical, social, and academic development of children and a study to develop national norms for the scale based on the responses of 22,819 Japanese children birth through 84 months of age enrolled in child care programs

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Defining and measuring quality in home-based settings
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, December 2010
(Research-to-Policy, Research-to-Practice Brief OPRE 2011-10d). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A discussion of the characteristics of home-based early care and education program quality observational measures

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Desired Results Developmental Profile-Infant/Toddler (2010)
California. Child Development Division, 2010
Sacramento: California, Child Development Division.

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Desired Results Developmental Profile-Preschool (2010)
California. Child Development Division, 2010
Sacramento: California, Child Development Division.

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Developmental screening measures: Stretching the use of the ASQ for other assessment purposes
Bricker, Diane D., January/March 2010
Infants and Young Children, 23(1), 14-22

A description of and discussion of the appropriate use of the Ages & Stages Questionnaires (ASQ), a widely used developmental screening measure to identify those children with potential developmental problems who should be referred for a more in-depth assessment

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DIBELS Next
Good, Roland, 2010
Eugene, OR: Dynamic Measurement Group

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Differentiating among measures of quality: Key characteristics and their coverage in existing measures
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, December 2010
(Research-to-Policy, Research-to-Practice Brief OPRE 2011-10b). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A discussion of features among which early care and education quality measures differ

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Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B): Preschool-kindergarten 2007 psychometric report
Najarian, Michelle, April 2010
(NCES 2010-009). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.

A description of the design of the assessments and methods of analysis used in the data collection of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort to measure cognitive and social development of children in their transition to kindergarten

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Early learning scale: Technical report
Riley-Ayers, Shannon, 2010
New Brunswick, NJ: National Institute for Early Education Research.

An account of the development of the Early Learning Scale (ELS), an assessment tool for preschoolers, and an examination of the validity of the instrument, based on data on the training of more than 57 early educators in New Jersey and 51 early educators in South Dakota

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ECELS Health and Safety Checklist (Version 1.3)
Early Childhood Education Linkage System-Healthy Child Care Pennsylvania, May, 2010
Media, PA: Early Childhood Education Linkage System-Healthy Child Care Pennsylvania.

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The effect of an "unsure" option on early childhood professionals' pre- and post-training knowledge assessments
Wakabayashi, Tomoko, December 2010
American Journal of Evaluation, 31(4), 486-498

Two studies of the relationship between the addition of the "unsure" option to true and false tests administered to early childhood professionals and responses on training knowledge assessments, both before and after professional development training, based on data from 167 early childhood professionals in the first study and 103 parent educators in the second study

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The effects of test translation on young English learners' mathematics performance
Robinson, Joseph P., November, 2010
Educational Researcher, 39(8), 582-590

A comparison of the performance on mathematics assessments of Spanish-speaking students tested in Spanish and English-speaking students tested in English, based on data from 1,618 kindergarten students from 701 different classrooms in 294 schools

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Estimating the potential effects of poverty reduction policies
Zedlewski, Sheila R., March 2010
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 29(2), 387-400

A description of the development of a poverty measure in Connecticut based on the National Academy of Science (NAS) recommendations and a simulation of alternative policies to reduce poverty as measured by NAS, based on data from the 2005 and 2006 Current Population Survey, Statistics of Income Data (SOI) from the Internal Revenue Service, and Connecticut administrative data

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Evaluation of the Kindergarten Quality Rating System in Beijing
Pan, Yue-Juan, March 2010
Early Education and Development, 21(2), 186-204

A criterion related validation study from an examination of the relationship between the Beijing Kindergarten Quality Rating System (BKQRS) and observations of 5 demonstration kindergartens using the Chinese Kindergarten Environment Rating Scale (CKERS)

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Evaluation of Preschool for All (PFA) implementation in San Francisco County: Year 5 report
American Institutes for Research, September, 2010
San Francisco: First 5 San Francisco.

An evaluation of the fifth year of implementation of Preschool for All, an initiative to make high-quality child care available to all four-year-old children, in San Francisco County, California, that examines changes in quality of 11 classrooms with teachers who participated in a professional development program and results of a pilot test of a research tool to assess support for dual language learners

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Evaluation of Preschool for All (PFA) implementation in San Francisco County: Year 5 report [Executive summary]
American Institutes for Research, September, 2010
San Francisco: First 5 San Francisco.

A summary of an evaluation of the fifth year of implementation of Preschool for All, an initiative to make high-quality child care available to all four-year-old children, in San Francisco County, California, that examines changes in quality of 11 classrooms with teachers who participated in a professional development program and results of a pilot test of a research tool to assess support for dual language learners

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Evaluation of two observational assessment systems for children's development and learning
Kim, Do-Hong, October-December 2010
NHSA Dialog, 13(4), 253-267

A validity study of Teaching Strategies GOLD development and learning assessment using the The Creative Curriculum Developmental Continuum for Infants, Toddlers & Twos as a baseline

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Facilitator Disposition Checklist
O'Hare, Liam, 2010
In Checklist for child ratings of facilitator dispositions in intervention and prevention programmes. Belfast, United Kingdom: Queen's University of Belfast, Centre for Effective Education

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Family Affluence Scale (Version II)
Kehoe, Susan, September, 2010
Effective Education, 2(2), 155-164

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