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			Announced v. unannounced licensing inspections: Survey report National Association for Regulatory Administration, 1997 Conyers, GA: National Association for Regulatory Administration. Results from a survey about the requirements and practices of announced and unannounced licensing inspections by child care, child welfare, drug and alcohol, adult day care, and mental health licensing professionals in 40 different states/provinces/territories	Reports & Papers
			A baseline report of early care and education in Pennsylvania: The 2002 Early Care and Education Provider Survey Smith, Wendy Etheridge, 2002 University Park: Pennsylvania State University, Prevention Research Center. A report surveying characteristics of early care and education providers in Pennsylvania	Reports & Papers
			Benefits of intergenerational staffing in preschools Larkin, Elizabeth, 2001 Educational Gerontology, 27(5), 373-385 A study of the contributions that older adults, who have not been formally trained, had on early childhood educators and programs	Reports & Papers
			Characteristics and quality of child care for toddlers and preschoolers [Abridged] NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2005 In Child care and child development: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (pp. 91-104). New York: Guilford Press The relationship between structural and caregiver characteristics and observed caregiver behavior in producing positive caregiving, as well as levels of positive caregiving associated with types of child care at 15, 24, and 36 months of age	Reports & Papers
			Child care improvement on a shoestring: Evaluating a low-cost approach to improving the availability of quality child care Jaeger, Elizabeth A., 2000 Evaluation Review, 24(5), 484-515 An evaluation of the Philadelphia Early Childhood Collaborative, a local experiment in coordinated planning and decentralized administration of services for the Philadelphia child care community, focusing on the program�s ability to be implemented as an organizational entity, impact on service delivery, and the influence of its services on participating child care providers	Reports & Papers
			Child care quality improvement using proximal learning and mentoring Carl, Barbara, October, 2004 Unpublished manuscript. An exploration of the influence of a provider training program on the improvement of child care program quality, based on a sample of 62 caregivers from 10 child care centers in central Pennsylvania; and an investigation of the effect of participation in a proximal learning/mentoring intervention program on early childhood teachers� improvement of the overall quality of their programs, based on a sample of 19 directors and lead teachers from licensed child care centers	Reports & Papers
			Coaching and quality assistance in quality rating improvement systems: Approaches used by TA providers to improve quality in early care and education programs and home-based settings Smith, Sheila, January, 2012 New York: Columbia University, National Center for Children in Poverty. A study of the features of on-site technical assistance and coaching provided by state child care quality rating and improvement system technical assistance providers, based on interviews with 34 technical assistance providers in 17 states	Reports & Papers
			Compliance of child care programs with health and safety standards: Impact of program evaluation and advocate training Aronson, Susan S., February, 1980 Pediatrics, 65(2), 318-325 An evaluation of a health and safety advocacy training program for child workers that examines participant health knowledge and health advocacy opinions and program compliance with health and safety standards pre- and post-training, based on data collected from 117 trainees from 142 child care programs in Pennsylvania and from 19 contrast sites	Reports & Papers
			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	Reports & Papers
			Cumberland County and Great Carlisle Area United Way: Success by Six: ECERS-R training Carl, Barbara, 2003 Harrisburg: Pennsylvania State University, Capital Area Early Childhood Training Institute. An evaluation of a workshop designed to teach child care center directors and staff how to use the revised version of the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale to assess their own centers and knowledge of environmental quality	Reports & Papers
			Cumberland County and Greater Carlisle Area United Way Success by Six ECERS-R training Carl, Barbara, June 2003 Harrisburg: Pennsylvania State University, Capital Area Health and Human Development Institute. A description of a quality self-assessment training program for child care teachers and directors, and findings from a survey of pre-training and post-training knowledge and behaviors, based on a sample of 62 early childhood educators in Cumberland County and Greater Carlisle, Pennsylvania	Reports & Papers
			The diffusion of state-level nonprofit program innovation: The T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood Project Kerlin, Janelle, June 2010 Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 39(3), 478-497 A study of the adoption of a scholarship program for teachers, directors, and family child care providers of the nonprofit Child Care Services Association in North Carolina by 4 other states, from interviews with 74 policy actors involved with the adoption	Reports & Papers
			Early childhood teacher preparation programs in the United States: State report for Pennsylvania Maxwell, Kelly, 2006 Chapel Hill, NC: FPG Child Development Institute, National Prekindergarten Center. An overview of the characteristics of the programs, faculty, and students in early childhood teacher preparation programs to prepare the workforce of service providers to children under age 5 in Pennsylvania	Reports & Papers
			Early childhood teachers' beliefs and practices regarding multicultural and antibias education You, Jae-kyung, December 2000 Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, University Park An examination of early childhood teachers' beliefs regarding multicultural and anti-bias education, and the relations among teacher beliefs, characteristics, and classroom practices, based on a survey of 86 early childhood teachers, and a case study observation of classroom practice	Reports & Papers
			The effectiveness of an infant mentoring project Fiene, Richard, 2001 Unpublished manuscript, Pennsylvania State University, University Park. An inquiry into the links between child care director-caregiver mentoring and quality of infant care programs, based on a sample of 52 caregivers from 27 centers in south central Pennsylvania, assessed using the Infant Toddler Environment Rating Scale (ITERS), the Arnett Caregiver Observation Scale, the Bloom Organizational Climate Scale, and the Knowledge of Infant Development Inventory (KIDI)	Reports & Papers
			The effectiveness of an infant mentoring project: Preliminary findings Fiene, Richard, 2000 Harrisburg: Pennsylvania State University, Capital Area Early Childhood Training Institute. Preliminary results of an evaluation of an infant mentoring project designed to improve quality of Pennsylvanian infant care programs	Reports & Papers
			Effectiveness of internet training for child caregivers: Mastering early childhood course content and learner satisfaction: A comparison of regular classroom instruction with three variations on internet delivery via the Penn State World Campus Johnson, James A., 2000 Harrisburg: Pennsylvania State University, Capital Area Early Childhood Training Institute. A study to assessing the effectiveness of the Internet as a training modality for childcare staff	Reports & Papers
			An evaluation of health and safety hazards in family based day care homes in Philadelphia Perez, Hernando, April 2011 Child & Youth Care Forum, 40(2), 151-157 A study of family day care home (FDCH) providers' knowledge of health and safety hazards and actions required to address hazards, and an assessment of the presence of hazards in 73 home-based child care facilities in low-income neighborhoods of Philadelphia	Reports & Papers
			Evaluation of the impact of the National Institute for School Leadership Early Childhood Executive Leadership Program in Pennsylvania Supovitz, Jonathan A., 26 March, 2010 Harrisburg: Pennsylvania, Office of Child Development and Early Learning. An evaluation of the Early Childhood Executive Leadership Program, a leader development program for school principals and early childhood directors, that examines pre- to post-program participant knowledge gains and participant action plans	Reports & Papers
			From capitols to classrooms, policies to practice: State-funded prekindergarten at the classroom level: Part 1: Who's teaching our youngest students?: Teacher education and training, experience, compensation and benefits, and assistant teachers Gilliam, Walter S., 2005 New Brunswick, NJ: National Institute for Early Education Research. A study of the characteristics of prekindergarten teachers throughout the United States	Reports & Papers
			Getting organized: Unionizing home-based child care providers: 2010 update Blank, Helen, June 2010 Washington, DC: National Women's Law Center. An examination of statewide efforts between February 2007 and March 2010 to allow home-based child care workers, including licensed family child care providers and regulation-exempt family, friend, and neighbor caregivers receiving subsidies, to join unions	Reports & Papers
			Head Start Teacher Effectiveness Consortium brief: Center on Mentoring for Effective Teaching (COMET): A university-community applied research collaborative in Appalachia: (Early Childhood Partnerships, University of Pittsburgh): Funded 2008 through 2012 Center on Mentoring for Effective Teaching, Pittsburgh, PA: Center on Mentoring for Effective Teaching. A study of the impact of a mentoring program for Head Start teachers on their instructional practices, based on data on 110 lead teachers and 129 assistant teachers in three rural Head Start programs who were randomly assigned to either a mentoring or a control group	Reports & Papers
			The impact of peer networking on out-of-school time staff University of Pennsylvania. Out-of-School Time Resource Center, December 2009 New York: Robert Bowne Foundation. An examination of the influence of Peer Networking Meetings (PNMs) and mentoring on the professional development of out of school time program workers, based on a survey of 214 participants who attended monthly mentoring meetings from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Reports & Papers
			Implementation quality: Lessons learned in the context of the Head Start REDI trial Domitrovich, Celene E., Q3 2010 Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 25(3), 284-298 An implmentation study of the Research-based, Developmentally Informed (REDI) initiative that targets measures of children's socoemotional competence, language, and emergent literacy skills including dosage, fidelity, generalization, and child engagement across curriculum components, from data collected in 22 intervention classrooms from a randomized clinical trial delivered by teachers who receive weekly coaching support	Reports & Papers
			Improving the quality of infant-toddler care through professional development Campbell, Philippa H., 2005 Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 25(1), 3-14 A study of the relationship between child caregivers in urban child care settings who completed a child care training curriculum, First Beginnings, and the quality of care provided for infants and toddlers in a sample of 160 caregivers in 96 infant�toddler rooms throughout 48 childcare programs	Reports & Papers

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