Activity settings and daily routines in preschool classrooms: Diverse experiences in early learning settings for low-income children
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?
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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Adult Involvement Scale
Instruments
After-school child care in an elementary school: Social development and continuity and complementarity of programs
A study of the impact of an out-of-school child care program on the social experiences and social development of 30 kindergarten-age children versus children that went home after school
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Are teachers' education, major, and credentials related to classroom quality and children's academic gains in pre-kindergarten?
An investigation using data from the NCEDL Multi-State Study of Pre-Kindergarten, 2001-2003, to examine if early educators' education, early childhood major, and credentials are related to classroom quality and preschool children's academic achievements
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Can the age of entry into child care and the quality of child care predict adjustment in kindergarten?
A longitudinal study of the effects of quality and length of child care attendance on adjustment to kindergarten
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Caregiver training and classroom quality in child care centers
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 as an adult work environment
A study of the predictors of child care provider job satisfaction and turnover, and their influence on child care quality and work environment
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Child care caregiver sensitivity and attachment
An overview of three studies measuring the impact of child care caregivers' sensitivity on children's attachment security
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Child care cost and quality
A summary of findings on the relationship between child care quality and costs, and how quality informs parents' child care choices, based on the Cost, Quality and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers Study and the Economics of Family Child Care Study.
Other
Child care in the United States and industrialized nations
An exploration of several themes that shape the nature and quality of child care in industrialized countries including the political and social context of child care, the diversity of child care services provided, motivations driving parental choices of child care services, and the role of quality child care in society
Other
Child care program and teacher practices: Associations with quality and children's experiences
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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Child care: The role of higher education in policy and practice
A transcript of a round-table discussion on the place for higher education in the evolution and improvement of early education and child care services
Other
Child care social climate
Key findings from a study on teacher-child relationships and the social environment of child care on children's socioemotional development
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Children and their child care caregivers: Profiles of relationships
A study of child and child care provider relationships based on an analysis of toddler and preschool children behavior profiles
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Children enrolled in public pre-K: The relation of family life, neighborhood quality, and socioeconomic resources to early competence
An examination of the relations of young children's sociodemographic characteristics, parental well-being, family functioning, and neighborhood quality to their early academic achievements and socioemotional competence
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The children of the Cost, Quality, and Outcomes Study go to school
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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The children of the Cost, Quality, and Outcomes Study go to school [Executive summary]
Report summarizes the key findings of the longitudinal follow up study to the Cost, Quality, and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers Study. The longitudinal study examines developmental outcomes of quality of center-based child care.
Executive Summary
Children's classroom engagement and school readiness gains in prekindergarten
A study of the relationship between child engagement in public prekindergarten classrooms and school readiness gains, based on data from 2,751 children from the Multi-State Study of Pre-Kindergarten and the State-Wide Early Education Programs Study (SWEEP)
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Children's relationships with caregivers: Mothers and child care teachers
A study categorizing infants', toddlers', and preschool children's relationships with their mothers and teachers and relating these categories to levels of teacher involvement, based on direct observations
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Child's play with adults, toys, and peers: An examination of family and child-care influences
A study of the influences of family and child care characteristics on the play of toddlers in family child care homes, based on observations and questionnaires
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Classroom dimensions predict early peer interaction when children are diverse in ethnicity, race, and home language
A study of the relationship between children's behaviors with peers and dimensions of the classroom as well as teacher-child relationship quality, based on data from children from diverse race, ethnic, and home language backgrounds that are part of the National Evaluation of Early Head Start
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The consistency of perceived teacher-child relationships between preschool and kindergarten
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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CQO children go to school
Key findings of the longitudinal follow-up study to the Cost, Quality, and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers Study (CQO) that investigates the persistence of children's benefits from participation in early childhood care through elementary school
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Development of academic skills from preschool through second grade: Family and classroom predictors of developmental trajectories
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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