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Assistive technology user group perspectives of early childhood professionals
Parette, Howard P., June 2009
Education and Training in Developmental Disabilities, 44(2), 257-270

An examination of efficacy of participatiing in a series of Assistive Technology user groups from semi-structured interviews with 10 teachers at an early childhood center in a Midwestern city

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Comparing universal and targeted prekindergarten programs
Dotterer, Aryn M., 2009
In R.C. Pianta & C. Howes (Eds.), The promise of pre-k (pp. 65-76). Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes

A comparison of classroom characteristics and preschooler achievement outcomes in universal and targeted pre-k programs based on a sample of over 400 children in over 800 classrooms

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Determining the feasibility and acceptability of a garden-based nutrition curriculum for preschoolers
Lewis, Tamara Michelle, December 2009
Unpublished master's thesis, University of Texas, Houston

A feasibility study of a classroom-based gardening curriculum for early care and education programs from pre- and post-implementation teacher questionnaires with 9 teachers or teachers' aides in two Head Start centers serving 103 preschoolers

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An exploration of early childhood leaders' perceptions regarding their knowledge, skills, and confidence in the areas of mathematical content, child development, pedagogical content, and instructional leadership strategies
Wilson, Jahnette Harrell, May 2009
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Houston

An exploration of early childhood leaders' perceptions regarding their knowledge, skills, and confidence in the areas of mathematical content and instructional leadership strategies for 47 early childhood administrators and teacher leaders in the Effective Mathematics Instruction for the Prekindergarten Classroom professional development program

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Exploring early childhood teachers' beliefs and practices about preschool outdoor play: A case study
Renick, Sandra E., August 2009
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Texas Women's University, Denton

A case study of teachers' beliefs, perceptions, and facilitation of children's outdoor play while in preschool based on interviews with 10 early childhood teachers in one program in North Texas

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Novel word learning of preschoolers enrolled in Head Start regular and bilingual classrooms: Impact of adult vocabulary noneliciting questions during shared storybook reading
Walsh, Bridget A., August 2009
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Texas Woman's University, Denton

An examination of the effect of eliciting and noneliciting questions during shared storybook reading on children's expressive and receptive knowledge of target words and on two measures of vocabulary with 45 children enrolled in monolingual Head Start classrooms and an examination of the effect of eliciting and noneliciting questions during storybook reading and parental home language use on expressive and receptive Spanish and English vocabulary of 28 children enrolled in English-Spanish bilingual Head Start classrooms

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Perceptions of parents of preschool children with and without disabilities regarding inclusion
Hilbert, Dana Dawn, 2009
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Oklahoma, Norman

A comparison of differences of perceptions of inclusion and inclusive programs of parents of children with and without disabilities, an examination of differences by severity, type of disability, demographic characteristics among those parents whose children have a disability, and a study of differences in parental perceptions of inclusive placements within specific disability based on a survey of 238 parents or caregivers of children who attend any of seven Rise School inclusive early childhood programs in four states

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Understanding child care leaders' decisions in making books accessible to the children at their child care centers
Aguilar-Crandall, Maria Magdalena, May 2009
Unpublished doctoral dissertation: University of Houston, Houston, TX

An examination of experiences and factors which lead to decisions of family child care center owners to make books accessible to the children from interview transcripts with the owners of 8 registered family child care sites

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