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An action plan: Assessing school readiness in Ventura County
Thompson, Lisa, March 2004
Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families, and Communities.

A series of recommendations for establishing a school readiness assessment measure in Ventura County, California, and a survey of school administrators and teachers to determine existing school readiness assessment practices and future preferences for the selection of a measurement

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America's children in brief: Key national indicators of well-being, 2004
Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics (U.S.), 2004
Washington, DC: Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics.

A collection of indicators of child well-being in the United States, including trends in child care participation and early childhood education enrollment

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Assessing structural indicators of child care quality at the local level: Lessons from four Minnesota counties
Ceglowski, Deborah A., 2004
Child & Youth Care Forum, 33(2), 71-93

A journal article using structural indicators to assess child care quality in four Minnesota counties

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Assessment and decision-making in early childhood education and intervention
Strand, Paul S., April 2007
Journal of Child and Family Studies, 16(2), 209-218

An account of the use of an inductive-experimental teaching assessment model to improve children’s letter recognition scores at a Head Start center

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Building better communities for children: Community implementation and evaluation of the Australian Early Development Index
Sayers, Mary, 2007
Early Education and Development, 18(3), 519-534

An overview of the implementation of the Australian Early Development Index (AEDI)

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California Afterschool Outcomes Measures Project instrument documentation
University of California, Irvine. Department of Education, August 2010
Irvine: University of California, Irvine, Department of Education

An overview of behavior change and skill development measures for students participating in California After School Education and Safety programs

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California After School Outcomes Measures Project: Phase I: Final report
Vandell, Deborah L., July 30, 2009
Irvine: University of California, Irvine, Department of Education

A summary of preliminary efforts to develop behavior change and skill development measures for students participating in California After School Education and Safety programs

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A call to commitment: Fathers' involvement in children's learning
United States. Department of Education, 2000
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education.

An investigation into the influence of fathers’ involvement in children’s early education on children’s development and outcomes

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Child care Quality Rating and Improvement System: Considerations for development in Washington State
Washington (State). Department of Early Learning, September 2007
Olympia, WA: Washington (State), Department of Early Learning.

A presentation of background information regarding the phasing in of Washington State’s Quality Rating System (QRS) to assess, improve, and communicate the quality of individual child care sites through tiered ranking and reimbursement

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Children at risk: Consequences for school readiness and beyond
Karoly, Lynn A., 2005
(Research Brief No. RB-9144-PNC). Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corporation.

A discussion of findings from a RAND Corporation’s study of early childhood interventions which yielded data about the number of children at risk of school failure and the consequences for their performance in school and subsequent life outcomes

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Connections between early literacy and social behavior
National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, 2006
Cambridge, MA: National Scientific Council on the Developing Child.

A summary of a longitudinal study following low-income children from kindergarten through fifth grade that explores the relation between aggression and prosocial behavior and literacy achievement

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Corporal punishment as a determinant of developmental outcomes: Longitudinal and process models
Mulvaney, Matthew K., 2005
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of New Hampshire, Durham

A two-part study examining the influence of corporal punishment across infancy and early childhood using longitudinal analyses performed on data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Childhood Care and Youth Development (NICHD-SECCYD) , and, this time using a college sample, the intervening role of individuals' subjective experiences of their parents' use of corporal punishment

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Curriculum-based emergent literacy assessment in early childhood
Hall, Kendra M., February 2007
Seminars in Speech and Language, 28(1), 3-13

A discussion of curriculum-based assessment processes for identifying young children's emergent literacy skills, particularly for at risk children who struggle with certain tasks in terms of emergent literacy

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Data for community planning: 1998 Oregon population estimates & survey findings
Oregon Childhood Care and Education Data Project, 2000
Albany, OR: Linn-Benton Community College, Family Resources and Education Division.

A presentation of statistical data for policy makers from the Community Planning Oregon Childhood Care and Education Data Project

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D.C. out-of-school time programs tackle outcome measures
Winkler, Mary K., September 2010
Washington, DC: Urban Institute.

A description of a study on the implementation of outcomes measurements in out of school time programs in the District of Columbia

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Defining Youth Outcomes for STEM Learning in Afterschool
Afterschool Alliance,
Washington, DC: Afterschool Alliance.

A study to identify learning outcomes and indicators related to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in after school programs, based on multiple rounds of questionnaires from a sample of 55 after school providers and 25 key stakeholders

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Defining Youth Outcomes for STEM Learning in Afterschool [Executive summary]
Afterschool Alliance,
Washington, DC: Afterschool Alliance.

A summary of a study to identify learning outcomes and indicators related to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in after school programs, based on multiple rounds of questionnaires from a sample of 55 after school providers and 25 key stakeholders

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Delaware Kindergarten Readiness Pilot Study: An analysis of kindergarten report cards used by districts and charter schools
Hustedt, Jason T., February, 2013
Dover: Delaware, Department of Education.

An examination of common elements among Delaware kindergarten report cards, based on an analysis of sample report cards from 20 school districts and charter schools

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Diversity or disparity?: Early childhood education and care in Canada (ECEC): Community Indicators project report
Campaign 2000, October, 2002
Toronto, Canada: Campaign 2000.

An overview of child care and early education services in Canada in 2001, based on indicators related to availability, affordability, and quality

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Early childhood centers: Services to prepare children for school often limited
United States. General Accounting Office. Health, Education, and Human Services Division, 1995
(GAO/HEHS-95-21). Washington, DC: U.S. General Accounting Office.

An investigation into the services needed to improve school readiness of at-risk children, based on case studies of early childhood programs in California, Louisiana, Maryland, and Michigan

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The early childhood disaster risk index 2007: Vulnerability and emergency preparedness needs of the early childhood sector in eleven states at high risk of hurricanes, earthquakes, or both
Shores, Elizabeth F., 2007
(Mississippi State University Early Childhood Report No. 4). Mississippi State: Mississippi State University, Early Childhood Institute.

Indicators of child care and other early childhood services' vulnerability to and preparedness for risks posed by disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, and volcanos and emergency preparedness in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas

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Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-1999 (ECLS-K): Psychometric report for the eighth grade
Najarian, Michelle, September 2009
(NCES 2009-002). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.

A description of the design of the assessments used in the spring 2007 data collection of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study to measure cognitive and social development of children in the eighth grade

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Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (ECLS-K): Psychometric report for the third grade
Pollack, Robert A., 2005
(NCES 2005-062). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.

A description of the assessments given in the fifth stage of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study to measure cognitive and social development of children in the third grade

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Early gender differences in self-regulation and academic achievement
Matthews, J. S., August 2009
Journal of Educational Psychology, 101(3), 689-704

An exploration of gender differences in children’s abilities to self-regulate their behavior and their discrepancies in academic achievement, and an inquiry into the correlation between direct measures versus teacher ratings of students' behavior, based on a sample of 268 kindergarteners from 87 classrooms in 12 schools in a public school district in southeast Michigan

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Early identification of learning problems: A meta-analysis
Horn, Wade F., 1985
Journal of Educational Psychology, 77(5), 597-607

An analysis of the findings of 58 studies on the early identification and prediction of elementary school level reading-related learning disabilities in kindergarten or first grade students

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