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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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Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses of the DIAL-3: What does this “developmental screener” really measure?
Anthony, Jason L., August 2007
Journal of School Psychology, 45(4), 423-438

An evaluation of the subsets and scales of the Developmental Indicators for Assessment of Learning-Third Edition, a screener used for identifying young children who are at risk for school failure, based on a study of 2012 preschool children attending Head Start programs

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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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A new measure for assessing the contributions of higher level processes to language comprehension performance in preschoolers
Hannon, Brenda, 2012
Journal of Educational Psychology, , 1-25

A validation of the preschooler component processes task (PR-CPT), a measure that provides estimates of a preschooler's ability to recall text, to make text-based inferences, to access knowledge from long-term memory, and to integrate this accessed knowledge with new information from the text, based on data from 73 4- to 6-year-old children recruited via flyers posted at the University of Texas at San Antonio and child care centers in the surrounding area

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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
Downer, Jason T., Q1 2012
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 27(1), 21-32

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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Predicting kindergarteners' response to early reading intervention: An examination of progress-monitoring measures
Oslund, Eric L., January, 2012
Reading Psychology, 33(1-2), 78-103

A study of the predictive validity of The Early Reading Intervention (ERI) curriculum-embedded mastery checks of phonemic and alphabetic/decoding performance and of individual Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) nonsense word fluency and phoneme segmentation fluency-- two forms of progress-monitoring measures, on reading outcomes of kindergarten students, and an examination of what combinations of both DIBELS and curriculum-embedded phonemic and alphabetic/decoding measures have the best predictive validity, based on data from 64 children in Connecticut and in Texas kindergartens

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Searching for a norm in a system of absolutes: A case study of standards-based accountability reform in pre-kindergarten
Brown, Christopher P., January 2011
Early Education and Development, 22(1), 151-177

A case study of the implementation of a teacher- and administrator-designed assessment tool to measure preschool academic achievement, and a study of its alignment with Texas state standards for school-age academic achievement, based on interviews with 22 prekindergarten and elementary school stakeholders across an urban Texas school district

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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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Teaching early childhood teacher candidates how to assess children's inquiry skills in science learning
Lee, Joohi, September 2008
Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 9(3), 265-269

A description of a rubric for assessing children's scientific inquiry skills designed by teacher candidates studying at the University of Texas at Arlington

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