Caregiver training and classroom quality in child care centers
Burchinal, Margaret, 2002
Applied Developmental Science, 6(1), 2-11
A study of the association between classroom quality and both formal education and informal training of caregivers, based on data from 533 child care center classrooms in four states
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Child care program and teacher practices: Associations with quality and children's experiences
Wishard, Alison, 2003
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 18(1), 65-103
An examination of associations between teacher and program practices and quality and observed child behaviors, based on a sample of 260 children from 22 child care programs designed to serve low income children and families of color in Los Angeles and rural North Carolina
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The children of the Cost, Quality, and Outcomes Study go to school
Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen S., 1999
Chapel Hill, NC: Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center.
The longitudinal follow up to the Cost, Quality, and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers Study, following children for five years to assess the impact of quality of child care experiences on later development.
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Children's experiences in center-based child care as a function of teacher background and adult:child ratio
Howes, Carollee, 1997
Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 43(3), 404-425
An examination of child care quality in relation to adult: child ratio and teacher education, using the Cost, Quality and Outcome (CQO) and Florida Quality Improvement study datasets
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Children's experiences in family child care and relative care as a function of family income and ethnicity
Kontos, Susan, 1997
Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 43(3), 386-403
A study of the role of family variables like ethnicity and income in the choice between family or relative child care arrangements, and the relationship between family variables and child care provider behavior and quality
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The consistency of perceived teacher-child relationships between preschool and kindergarten
Howes, Carollee, 2000
Journal of School Psychology, 38(2), 113-132
A longitudinal study of consistency in teacher perceptions of the quality of children’s teacher-child relationships over a three-year period encompassing both preschool and kindergarten
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Cost, quality, and child outcomes in child care centers: Public report
Helburn, Suzanne W., April, 1995
Denver: University of Colorado at Denver, Department of Economics
Findings from a study of the relationship between child care costs and quality and the concurrent effects of child care quality on children's cognitive and socioemotional outcomes, based on data from licensed community childcare sites in Los Angeles County in California, the Hartford corridor in Connecticut, the Frontal range in Colorado, and the Piedmont region in North Carolina
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Cost, quality and child outcomes in child care centers: Technical report
Helburn, Suzanne W., June, 1995
University of Colorado at Denver, Center for Research in Economic and Social Policy
An outline of the structure and design of the Cost, Quality and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers Study, with descriptive comparisons of the centers from which data was drawn, and a presentation of analytic study results
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Development of academic skills from preschool through second grade: Family and classroom predictors of developmental trajectories
Burchinal, Margaret, 2002
Journal of School Psychology, 40(5), 415-436
A study of the relationship between 511 children's acquisition of academic skills from preschool to second grade and their experiences with parents and teachers, based on data from the Cost, Quality, and Outcomes Study, spanning child care centers in four states
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Does training make a difference to quality in family child care?
Kontos, Susan, 1996
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 11(4), 427-445
An article on the characteristics of family child care providers who seek training and the effects of training on child care quality.
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The prediction of process quality from structural features of child care
Phillipsen, Leslie C., 1997
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 12(3), 281-303
An analysis of data from the Cost, Quality and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers Study to identify structural features of child care centers and classrooms that predict process quality
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Program practices, caregiver stability, and child-caregiver relationships
Ritchie, Sharon, 2003
Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 24(5), 497-516
An examination of child care program practices, caregiver behaviors, and classroom environments associated with the development of positive child caregiver relationships
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Quality in family child care and relative care
Kontos, Susan, 1995
New York: Teachers College Press
A comprehensive study of family child care and relative care from the perspective of families, children, and providers, including an analysis of child care quality as it relates to child development
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The relation of preschool child-care quality to children's cognitive and social developmental trajectories through second grade
Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen S., 2001
Child Development, 72(5), 1534-1553
An examination of the relationship between quality preschool and cognitive and socioemotional development in community child-care centers, adjusting for family selection factors from a longitudinal study of 733 children ages 4 to 8 years old
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Social-emotional classroom climate in child care, child-teacher relationships and children's second grade peer relations
Howes, Carollee, 2000
Social Development, 9(2), 191-203
A longitudinal study of the influence of preschool socio-emotional climate and early individual child-teacher relationships and behavior problems in predicting second grade social competence with peers
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Structural predictors of child care quality in child care homes
Burchinal, Margaret, 2002
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 17(1), 87-105
An article examining whether structural features of family child care predict quality better than other features
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The study of children in family child care and relative care: Highlights of findings
Galinsky, Ellen, 1994
New York, NY: Families and Work Institute.
A presentation of findings from a study on parents' definition of quality in informal child care settings, and an examination of how those measure identified impact quality, based on a sample of 820 mothers, 225 children, and 226 child care providers from San Fernando/Los Angeles, California, Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, and Charlotte North Carolina
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Teacher-articulated perceptions & practices with families: Examining effective teaching in diverse high quality child care settings
Shivers, Eva Marie, 2004
Early Education and Development, 15(2), 167-186
An observational study of high quality child care centers, examining effective teaching strategies through researching associations among teachers' perceptions about families, their involvement with the families, and their background characteristics
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