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Activity settings and daily routines in preschool classrooms: Diverse experiences in early learning settings for low-income children An identification of two routines profiles--structured-balanced and high free choice, derived from varying proportions of teacher-directed and child-initiated activities during the preschool day, and a study of the relationship between those routine profiles and structural program characteristics, measures of process quality, children's engagement in activities of various academic contents, teachers' instructional strategies, and children's school readiness skills, based on data from 53 public preschool classrooms, 47 private preschool classrooms, and 25 family child care homes that serve low-income children in Los Angeles, California |
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Adding two school age children: Does it change quality in family child care? A study of family child care provider quality and caregiver sensitivity before and after enrolling two additional school-age children to these programs |
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Can the age of entry into child care and the quality of child care predict adjustment in kindergarten? A longitudinal study of the effects of quality and length of child care attendance on adjustment to kindergarten |
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Caregiver training and classroom quality in child care centers A study of the association between classroom quality and both formal education and informal training of caregivers, based on data from 533 child care center classrooms in four states |
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Child care caregiver sensitivity and attachment An overview of three studies measuring the impact of child care caregivers' sensitivity on children's attachment security |
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Child care cost and quality A summary of findings on the relationship between child care quality and costs, and how quality informs parents' child care choices, based on the Cost, Quality and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers Study and the Economics of Family Child Care Study. |
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Child care for children in poverty: Opportunity or inequality? A study of child care quality in child care centers serving children from low-income families, its relationship to type of center-based programming, and its comparability to child care quality in centers serving upper- and middle-income families, based on data from the nationally representative Profile of Child Care Settings study and the National Child Care Staffing Study, which collected observational data on child care quality in 227 child care centers in five cities |
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Child care program and teacher practices: Associations with quality and children's experiences An examination of associations between teacher and program practices and quality and observed child behaviors, based on a sample of 260 children from 22 child care programs designed to serve low income children and families of color in Los Angeles and rural North Carolina |
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Child care social climate Key findings from a study on teacher-child relationships and the social environment of child care on children's socioemotional development |
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The children of the Cost, Quality, and Outcomes Study go to school The longitudinal follow up to the Cost, Quality, and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers Study, following children for five years to assess the impact of quality of child care experiences on later development. |
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The children of the Cost, Quality, and Outcomes Study go to school [Executive summary] Report summarizes the key findings of the longitudinal follow up study to the Cost, Quality, and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers Study. The longitudinal study examines developmental outcomes of quality of center-based child care. |
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Children's classroom engagement and school readiness gains in prekindergarten A study of the relationship between child engagement in public prekindergarten classrooms and school readiness gains, based on data from 2,751 children from the Multi-State Study of Pre-Kindergarten and the State-Wide Early Education Programs Study (SWEEP) |
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Children's experiences in center-based child care as a function of teacher background and adult:child ratio An examination of child care quality in relation to adult: child ratio and teacher education, using the Cost, Quality and Outcome (CQO) and Florida Quality Improvement study datasets |
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Children's relationships with caregivers: Mothers and child care teachers A study categorizing infants', toddlers', and preschool children's relationships with their mothers and teachers and relating these categories to levels of teacher involvement, based on direct observations |
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Child's play with adults, toys, and peers: An examination of family and child-care influences A study of the influences of family and child care characteristics on the play of toddlers in family child care homes, based on observations and questionnaires |
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Classroom dimensions predict early peer interaction when children are diverse in ethnicity, race, and home language A study of the relationship between children's behaviors with peers and dimensions of the classroom as well as teacher-child relationship quality, based on data from children from diverse race, ethnic, and home language backgrounds that are part of the National Evaluation of Early Head Start |
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Cost, quality and child outcomes in child care centers: Executive summary A summary of findings from a study of the relationship between child care costs and quality and the concurrent effects of child care quality on children's cognitive and socioemotional outcomes, based on data from licensed community childcare sites in Los Angeles County in California, the Hartford corridor in Connecticut, the Frontal range in Colorado, and the Piedmont region in North Carolina |
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Cost, quality, and child outcomes in child care centers: Public report Findings from a study of the relationship between child care costs and quality and the concurrent effects of child care quality on children's cognitive and socioemotional outcomes, based on data from licensed community childcare sites in Los Angeles County in California, the Hartford corridor in Connecticut, the Frontal range in Colorado, and the Piedmont region in North Carolina |
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Cost, quality and child outcomes in child care centers: Technical report An outline of the structure and design of the Cost, Quality and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers Study, with descriptive comparisons of the centers from which data was drawn, and a presentation of analytic study results |
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Does training make a difference to quality in family child care? An article on the characteristics of family child care providers who seek training and the effects of training on child care quality. |
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An eco-behavioral approach to examining the contextual effects of early childhood classrooms A study of the association between both child and classroom characteristics and children's interactions with both objects and peers, based on observations of a random selection of 225 Hawaiian young children |
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Entering a new peer group in ethnically and linguistically diverse childcare classrooms A six-month longitudinal study of the associations between child social competence and race, language, relationships with teachers, and classroom characteristics in a population of 190 children low income children in 38 racially- and linguistically-diverse urban classrooms |
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Ethnic differences in social-emotional development in preschool: The impact of teacher child relationships and classroom quality A study of differences in teachers' perceptions of prekindergarten children's behavior problems by ethnic group and gender, and a second study of the relationship between both classroom and teacher quality and children's behavior problems, based on a secondary analysis of two multi-state prekindergarten studies |
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Evaluating the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (ECERS): Assessing differences between the first and revised edition A review of the comparability and changes between the original 1980 version and the 1998 revision of the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale, a measure of global child care quality |
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Evaluation of the First 5 LA Family Literacy Initiative: Final phase I report Findings from the third and fourth years of the implementation and impact evaluation of the First 5 LA Family Literacy Initiative, a comprehensive program to promote literacy among low-income families in Los Angeles County, that examined program characteristics and quality and child and parent outcomes |
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