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1998 Child Care Baseline Needs Assessment: U.S. Marine Corps
United States. Department of the Navy, 1998
Fairfax, VA: Caliber Associates

A comprehensive assessment of the child care needs of service members and spouses in military bases and regional locations.

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2004 child care needs assessment for the county of Los Angeles
Los Angeles County (Calif.). Child Care Planning Committee, April 2005
Los Angeles: Los Angeles County, Office of Child Care.

An assessment of the supply of and demand for child care services in Los Angeles County, California

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The 2005 child care licensing study: Final report
National Association for Regulatory Administration, December 2006
Conyers, GA: National Association for Regulatory Administration.

A compilation of survey data on state child care licensing programs and policies, including staffing, monitoring, and enforcement, and child care center licensing regulations, for all 50 states and the District of Columbia in 2005

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2005 child development center survey
Kern County Child Care Council, 2005
Bakersfield, CA: Kern County Child Care Council.

A survey of the characteristics of child care workers in child development centers in Kern County, California

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The 2007 Child Care Licensing Study: Final report
National Child Care Information Center (U.S.), February, 2009
Lexington, KY: National Association for Regulatory Administration.

A compilation of survey data on state licensing programs and policies for child care centers and small and large family child care homes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia in 2007

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2009 economic impact report of the early care & education industry in Santa Clara County
Liebig, Gina, December, 2009
San Jose, CA: Santa Clara County Office of Education.

An analysis of the economic impact of the Santa Clara, County, child care industry in terms of its employment and gross receipts, as well as its role in supporting parental labor force participation and positive child outcomes

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2010 child development center survey
Early Childhood Council of Kern, 15 June, 2011
Bakersfield, CA: Early Childhood Council of Kern.

A study of the characteristics of the center-based child development program workforce in Kern County, California, including tenure, education, training, turnover, benefits, and wages, based on surveys from 55 programs

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2012 report: Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Supplement to the National Agricultural Worker Survey
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, March, 2012
(OPRE Report No. 2012-13). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

Findings on the characteristics of families with children under 6 years old from the National Agricultural Worker Survey (NAWS), a national random sample survey of crop farmworkers, and findings on families' child care experiences from the NAWS Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Supplement, which is administered to NAWS respondents with children under the age of 6

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The 30-second effect: An experiment revealing the impact of television commercials on food preferences of preschoolers
Borzekowski, Dina L. G., 2001
Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 101(1), 42-46

A study of the influence of televised food commercials on preschool children's food preferences among a sample of 40 Head Start children in northern California

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4-H Science Initiative: Youth Engagement, Attitudes, and Knowledge study
Mielke, Monica, April, 2012
Chevy Chase, MD: National 4-H Council.

An evaluation of 4-H Science, an initiative to increase 4-H science, engineering, and technology program offerings, that examines: 4-H Science program characteristics and activities; the science-related attitudes, activities, and skills of participants; and the relationship of participant characteristics to their science-related attitudes, activities, and skills, based on survey responses from 182 4-H Science educators and from 486 children attending 4-H Science programs

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The 4-H study of positive youth development: Report of the findings from the first four waves of data collection: 2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, and 2005-2006
Lerner, Richard M., 2008
Medford, MA: Tufts University, Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development.

A longitudinal investigation of the theory of Positive Youth Development (PYD) and its promotion of the "Five Cs"--competence, confidence, character, caring, and connection--in youth, based on data on 3,342 students from 33 states assessed from grades five through eight

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The ABCD Story: A model for learning
BTW Informing Change, January, 2009
(Report to the Community Issue VII). San Francisco: Low Income Investment Fund.

A description of the Affordable Buildings for Children?s Development (ABCD) Initiative and its influence on the promotion of the structural quality of child care and early education facilities in California, with a focus on the financing, capacity building, development assistance, and advocacy program components of the initiative

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Acceptability ratings of language interventions and reasoning as described by early childhood special education teachers
Turan, Yasemin, October, 2012
Early Child Development and Care, 182(10), 1371-1382

An examination of teachers' preferences between naturalistic and therapeutic approaches to language interventions and reasoning, based on data from 29 early childhood special education teachers from public school districts in Southern California

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Access to the general education curriculum for preschoolers with disabilities: Children’s school success
Lieber, Joan, 2008
Exceptionality, 16(1), 18-32

A study of the academic and social skill gains of 58 children with disabilities during their preschool year in classrooms using the Children’s School Success (CSS) curriculum

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Accountability for after-school care: Devising standards and measuring adherence to them
Beckett, Megan, 2001
Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corporation.

A report evaluating school-based after-school programs administered by Stone Soup Child Care Programs, using a methodology and instruments developed from a review of good after-school program practices

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Achieving high-quality child care: How ten programs deliver excellence parents can afford
Kinch, Amy,
Washington, DC: National Association for the Education of Young Children.

A study of the characteristics and fundamentals of a high quality and affordable early childhood program by highlighting ten highly-rated child care programs

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Achieving a state of healthy weight: A national assessment of obesity prevention terminology in child care regulations 2010
National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care (U.S.), January, 2011
Aurora, CO: National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care.

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

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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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Activity settings and daily routines in preschool classrooms: Diverse experiences in early learning settings for low-income children
Fuligni, Allison Sidle, Q2 2012
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 27(2), 198-209

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?
Howes, Carollee, 1997
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 12(3), 327-342

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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Advancing achievement: Findings from an independent evaluation of a major after-school initiative
Arbreton, Amy, February 2008
San Francisco: James Irvine Foundation.

An evaluation of the Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning (CORAL) initiative, an after school initiative in five California cities focusing on literacy achievement, that examined participants' characteristics, program experiences, engagement, and outcomes, and program quality and costs, based on child surveys and assessments, program observations, parent surveys and focus groups, and staff surveys and interviews

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The aftermath of nonsubstantiated child abuse allegations in child care centers
Bordin, Judith A., 1996
Child & Youth Care Forum, 25(2), 73-87

A study of staff, policy and ethical implications of unproven child sexual abuse allegations, examining staff attrition rates, type of allegation, investigatory agency rating and staff support in 28 California child care centers

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Afterschool evaluation practices in California: Site-level perspectives
Erbstein, Nancy, November 2005
Davis: University of California, Davis, Center for Community School Partnerships.

An exploration of evaluation practices used by after school programs and a discussion of the evaluation needs of programs to improve service delivery, based on a survey of program coordinators of 271 after school programs funded by the 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) program and the After School Education and Safety (ASES) initiative in California

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The afterschool experience in Salsa, Sabor y Salud: Evaluation 2007-2008
Huang, Denise, December 2008
(CRESST Report 747). Los Angeles: University of California, Los Angeles, Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing.

A process and outcomes evaluation of Salsa, Sabor y Salud (SSS), a child-centered adaptation of a healthy lifestyles program for Latino families, that examined the effect of program participation on elementary school students' and program instructors' knowledge and healthy behaviors, based on survey, interview, and observational data collected in after school programs implementing SSS and matched control programs in Los Angeles and on case studies of programs in Chicago

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The afterschool hours: Examining the relationship between afterschool staff-based social capital and student's engagement in LA's BEST
Huang, Denise, January, 2007
(CSE Technical Report 712). Los Angeles: University of California, Los Angeles, Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing.

A study of the association of strong staff-student relationships with students' academic engagement and future aspirations in LA's BEST, an after school program for urban elementary school children in Los Angeles County that aims to enhance children's intellectual, social, and emotional development, based on a survey of staff and participating students

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