Achieving a state of healthy weight: A national assessment of obesity prevention terminology in child care regulations 2010
A study of the extent to which state child care regulations meet standards related to obesity prevention in the areas of infant feeding, nutrition, and physical activity
Reports & Papers
Building partnerships between Early Head Start grantees and family child care providers: Lessons from the Early Head Start for Family Child Care project: Final report
An evaluation of Early Head Start (EHS) for Family Child Care, a project to support partnerships between EHS grantees and family child care providers, that examines the characteristics of participating grantees and providers, the implementation, types, and sustainability of the partnerships, and lessons learned, based on project administrative data, interviews with 13 partnership teams, descriptive quality indicators and Head Start Program Information Report (PIR) data, and project documents
Reports & Papers
The Child Care Quality Rating System (QRS) Assessment: Defining and measuring quality: An in-depth study of five child care quality rating and improvement systems
An examination of aspects of child care quality rating and improvement systems related to definitions and measures of quality, including variation in definitions and measures, processes to measure each component and determine the overall level of quality, and availability of data on quality ratings, based on in-depth case studies in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee
Reports & Papers
The Child Care Quality Rating System (QRS) Assessment: Measuring quality across three child care quality rating and improvement systems: Findings from secondary analyses
A study of the prevalence of quality components among participating child care quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) providers and their relationship to observed quality, based on analyses of QRIS administrative data, professional development registries, and observation data in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Illinois, and Tennessee
Reports & Papers
Cognitive flexibility, approaches to learning, and academic school readiness in Head Start preschool children
A study of the relationship between cognitive flexibility and a measure of pre-academic knowledge indicative of success in the early school years, and an examination of the mediating potentials of attention, persistence, and both attitudes towards and motivation for learning, based on measures of 191 children in Head Start classrooms
Reports & Papers
Contributions of emergent literacy skills to name writing, letter writing, and spelling in preschool children
A study of the relationship between preschool children's emergent literacy skills and their name writing, letter writing, and spelling skills, based on data from 296 children 4- and 5-years-old at 30 private preschools and both public and private child care centers in north Florida
Reports & Papers
Determinants of household participation in Florida's Voluntary Prekindergarten program
A study of the relationship of child and family characteristics, including program awareness, to participation in Florida's publicly funded Voluntary Prekindergarten program, based on a survey of 1,305 randomly selected parents or legal guardians with children aged 4 and 5
Reports & Papers
Early care and education state budget actions FY 2011
A study of state appropriations of state funds for early care and education programs in fiscal year 2011, based on a survey of legislative fiscal offices in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the territories
Reports & Papers
Early Learning Coalition of Duval report 2010-11
An examination of the school readiness skills and gains of children who attend early care and learning centers that participate in Guiding Stars of Duval, an initiative to improve the quality of early learning and care services in Jacksonville, Florida, based on pre- and posttest assessments of participants and public school kindergarten readiness administrative data
Reports & Papers
Early Learning Coalition of Duval report 2011-12
An examination of the school readiness skills and gains of children who attend early care and learning centers that participate in Guiding Stars of Duval, an initiative to improve the quality of early learning and care services in Jacksonville, Florida, based on pre- and posttest assessments of participants and on public school kindergarten readiness administrative data
Reports & Papers
Early learning programs and related delivery systems: Audit performed pursuant to Chapter 2011-142, Laws of Florida
An examination of the governance structure, administration, oversight, and service delivery of state-funded early learning programs in Florida, based on audit procedures that include interviews with state agency staff, analyses of administrative data, a survey of 2,000 parents, interviews with 100 child care providers, and 20 provider site visits
Reports & Papers
Early literacy and early numeracy: The value of including early literacy skills in the prediction of numeracy development
A study of the relationship between the early preschool measures of print knowledge, vocabulary, and phonological awareness, and the measures of numeracy skills a year later, in a sample of 69 children enrolled in 10 Florida preschools
Reports & Papers
Effects of quality improvement system for child care centers
An account of changes in classroom quality following implementations of a comprehensive quality improvement system (QIS), based on data from a random selection of classrooms from dozens of child care centers in Palm Beach County, Florida
Reports & Papers
Examining the dimensionality of effortful control in preschool children and its relation to academic and socioemotional indicators
A study of effortful control (EC) in preschool children and an exploration of the relationship between EC dimensions and both emergent literacy and socioemotional competence, based on data from 234 preschool children in 16 preschools in Northern Florida
Reports & Papers
Family child care learning environments: Caregiver knowledge and practices related to early literacy and mathematics
A study of the relationship between the structural quality of early learning environments and both the academic knowledge and professional backgrounds of carers, a second study of the relationship between caregivers' allocation of time and stated teaching goals, and a profile of the background characteristics and teaching goals of the sample, based on the questionnaire responses of 170 family child care home providers in Florida
Reports & Papers
From scribbles to scrabble: Preschool children's developing knowledge of written language
An examination of the development of written language across different writing tasks and an investigation of the development and knowledge of writing features in preschool children, based on data from 372 children 3- through 5-years-old from private and public preschool classes and private child care centers in Florida
Reports & Papers
Impact of curriculum training on state-funded prekindergarten teachers' knowledge, beliefs, and practices
An evaluation of the impact of an eight-week curriculum course on state-funded prekindergarten teachers' knowledge about developmentally appropriate curriculum, their beliefs about best practice, and their classroom instructional performance, and an examination of the relationship between teacher qualifications and their knowledge, beliefs, and instructional performance, based on data from 17 teachers in state-funded Voluntary Prekindergarten in Florida
Reports & Papers
Miami-Dade County Quality Counts workforce study
A study of the characteristics, including training, education, qualifications, earnings, and turnover, of staff in early care and education programs participating in Quality Counts, a quality rating and improvement system in Miami-Dade County, Florida, based on data from a registry of 3,665 practitioners in 411 programs
Reports & Papers
Municipal leadership for afterschool: Citywide approaches spreading across the country
An examination and profiles of city-led efforts to build comprehensive out-of-school time systems, based on surveys and interviews with representatives from 27 cities
Reports & Papers
Parents and the high cost of child care: 2011 report
A state-by-state study of the prices of center-based and family child care for infants, preschool-age children, and school-age children in 2010, based on a national survey of state child care resource and referral networks and local child care resource and referral agencies
Reports & Papers
Parent-teacher agreement and reliability on the Devereux Early Childhood Assessment (DECA) in English and Spanish for ethnically diverse children living in poverty
An examination of the internal consistency reliability and parent-teacher agreement on the Devereux Early Childhood Assessment, English and Spanish forms, a 37-item parent- and teacher-report instrument of children's initiative, self-control, attachment, protective factors, and behavioral concerns, for use with children 2- through 5-years-old, based on data from a sample of 7,756 impoverished, ethnically diverse preschoolers in Miami, Florida
Reports & Papers
Predicting ELL students' beginning first grade English oral reading fluency from initial kindergarten vocabulary, letter naming, and phonological awareness skills
A study of the relationships between both English letter naming fluency and initial sound fluency at kindergarten entry and both first grade English vocabulary skills and oral reading fluency, based on data from 2,481 English language learners in 291 Florida Reading First schools from the 2004-2005 school year
Reports & Papers
Professional development for afterschool practitioners: The first year of the Palm Beach County Afterschool Educator Certificate Program
A process evaluation of the pilot year of the Palm Beach County Afterschool Educator Certificate Program, which provides after school program staff with 12-week courses on youth development and after school practice, that examined participants' program experiences
Reports & Papers
Promising results: Educare implementation study data--June 2012
Findings from an implementation study of Educare, a full-day, full-year high-quality early care and education program for at risk children from birth to age 5, that examine children's school readiness, vocabulary, and socioemotional outcomes and classroom quality, based on data collected at 12 programs during the 2010-2011 school year
Reports & Papers
Promoting the development of preschool children's emergent literacy skills: A randomized evaluation of a literacy-focused curriculum and two professional development models
A study of the impact of a literacy-focused preschool curriculum and two types of professional development on the emergent literacy skills of at-risk children, based on data from teachers and 739 children in 48 preschools
Reports & Papers
