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Comprehensive Assessment of Summer Programs |
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Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test |
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Washington Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills |
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Child Care and Community Services: Characteristics of Service Use and Effects on Parenting The study aims to improve the field's understanding of the features of child care services that are most critical to support children's development and identify family-level processes that might be influenced by child care. Specific research questions are: (1) What characteristics of parents predict usage of supports and services offered through the child care center and the community?; (2) What types of services and supports do parents use?; (3) Do the services and supports provided or referred to parents from the child care or preschool setting positively affect the home environment and parenting practices? To address these questions three national data sets (Head Start Impact Study, National Evaluation of Early Head Start, and National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development) are being analyzed. The results of the study can further inform the field of the parental characteristics related to service take-up and whether the services have a positive effect on the home, in addition to providing practitioners and policymakers with evidence to design early child care and education programs that improve the environments and relationships vital for children's academic and social development. |
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The Psychometric Quality of The Preschool Child Observation Record: Does It Pass the Test For Use in Child Care Programs? The study aims to provide high quality evidence on the second most used assessment tool in Head Start--the Preschool Child Observation Record, 2nd edition (COR-2). To that end, this study has five objectives: (1) determine the dimensionality of the COR-2; (2) determine whether or not the optimal factor structure is the same for boys, girls, Whites, African Americans, Latinos, English language learners, and across time; (3) assess the extent to which the COR-2 is related to other validated measures of development captured at the same time and in the future; and (4) test the assumption that the five skill points of each COR-2 item are in fact in order of skill complexity. The study analyzes a subset of data from the Evidence-Based Program for the Integration of Curricula (EPIC) project, a comprehensive early childhood program specifically designed for preschool children from an underserved, minority urban population. This study uses the COR-2 data collected from a large representative sample of preschool children from low income households to examine the validity and quality of the COR-2 to inform child care services using rigorous psychometric methods. The project will interpret the research findings collaboratively with policymakers, child care professionals, and parents to stimulate a discussion about purposeful assessment in early childhood and to determine ways to improve assessment for preschool children from low income households. |
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Exploring the Potential of State-level Consolidated Governance for Bringing Coherence to Early Childhood Education Systems The purpose of this research is to explore the decisions states make about the form and function of governance, the ways governance has impacted the Early Childhood Education (ECE) system, and opportunities and limits of governance for bringing coherence to the complex and fragmented ECE system. Of the states that have consolidated governance for ECE, this study focuses on three: Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Delaware. The research is being conducted using a phased approach to data collection and analysis. Each research question, designed to test the hypotheses regarding the importance of governance to improving the field of ECE, is addressed in each phase of data collection. This study can, by exploring the form and function of state-level governance, help bring much-needed definitional clarity to a term and a concept that has been defined as many things over the past decade. It can also articulate the potential benefits accorded to a state ECE system via governance, as well as make explicit the limits of governance on system development. |
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Caring for the Caregivers: Estimating the Causal Impact of Allowing Home-based Child Care Workers to Form Labor Unions on the Cost, Type, and Availability of Subsidized Child Care in Illinois This study investigates the impact of granting Illinois home-based child care providers the right to form a labor union on the per-child cost of subsidized child care for infants and toddlers, the type of child care (home-based vs. center-based) used by subsidy-receiving Illinois infants and toddlers, and the percentage of Illinois infants and toddlers who use child care subsidies. These analyses are conducted using a comparative case study method with social, economic, demographic, and housing data from the American Community Survey and records of the Child Care and Development Fund on United States infants and toddlers whose families received child care subsidies during the period from 2002-2008. Results are expected to reveal whether the unionization of Illinois home-based child care providers increased, via the collective bargaining process, the per-child amount of vouchers paid to providers; and the level of influence, if any, this action affords the unions to influence bureaucratic and regulatory processes encouraging subsidy-receiving families to choose home-based, as opposed to center-based, care for their young children. |
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Quality Profiles in Early Childhood: An Example from Virginia's Quality Rating Improvement System This study examines data collected on the quality of centers participating in Virginia's Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) to identify patterns and profiles of quality in these settings using a clustering technique. Identified patterns are compared with the composite quality level assigned by the state to determine associations with existing quality profiles across Virginia's 290 participating centers. It is expected that two profiles represent "high overall" and "low overall" patterns of quality, in addition to profiles that demonstrate differential levels or relative strengths and weakness among settings with regard to quality. If patterns of quality features do not bear significant associations with the star ratings, this information can be used by state leaders to reexamine thresholds for determining between star levels. |
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Revising state licensing requirements: Readiness for change An overview of considerations for assessing the capacity and readiness of states to revise their child care licensing systems |
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Risk assessment and licensing compliance A presentation of approaches in state child care licensing systems in Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Virginia to assessing the risk of harm to children in noncompliant child care facilities |
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Trends in group child care home licensing regulations and policies for 2011 An analysis of state group child care home licensing requirements and policies, including those related to staffing, group size, health and nutrition, inspections, monitoring, and enforcement, based on a survey of state child care licensing agencies and a compilation of state licensing requirements |
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Trends in family child care home licensing requirements and policies for 2011 An analysis of state family child care home licensing requirements and policies, including those related to staffing, group size, health and nutrition, inspections, monitoring, and enforcement, based on a survey of state child care licensing agencies and a compilation of state licensing requirements |
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Trends in child care center licensing regulations and policies for 2011 An analysis of state child care center licensing requirements and policies, including those related to staffing, child-adult ratios, health and nutrition, inspections, monitoring, and enforcement, based on a survey of state child care licensing agencies and a compilation of state licensing requirements |
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Palmetto Assessment of State Standards |
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Child Care Licensing Study, 2011 [United States] The purpose of the 2011 Child Care Licensing Study is to report two aspects of child care licensing from 2008 for all 50 states and the District of Columbia (not including Idaho): (1) state child care licensing programs and policies and (2) child care center and family child care home licensing regulations. The study focuses on the processes and policies in each state related to staffing for the licensing program, monitoring facilities, and enforcement of licensing regulations. |
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Head Start participation and school readiness: Evidence from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort A comparison of academic skills and socioemotional well-being at kindergarten entry for populations of children who attended Head Start or other types of child care, based on data from 6,950 children, their parents, schools, and teachers from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort, Kindergarten sample, a nationally representative sample of children born in 2001 |
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Behavior regulation and early math and vocabulary knowledge in German preschool children An examination of gender differences in the development of behavior regulation and of the relationship between behavior regulation and children's early math and vocabulary knowledge, based on data from 60 German children in early care and education centers in Germany |
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Motivations for providing and utilizing child care by grandmothers in South Korea An examination of the motivations of grandmothers and mothers to provide and utilize child care, based on data from 21 matched pairs of employed mothers and grandmothers who are caregivers in Korea |
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Child care and child births: The role of grandparents in the Netherlands A study of grandparent involvement in the care of young children and its relationship to subsequent child births in dual-earner families, based on data from 898 18- through 49-year-old Dutch men and women from the Netherlands' Kinship Panel Study |
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The transition from informal to formal mathematical knowledge: Mediation by numeral knowledge A study of the mediating role of numeral knowledge--the ability to identify Arabic numerals and connect those numerals to their respective quantities--and both informal and formal mathematical knowledge, based on data from 206 3- through 5-year-olds in early care and education centers both at the beginning and end of the preschool year, and one year later |
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Conceptions of Finnish and Estonian pre-school teachers' goals in their pedagogical work A study of similarities and differences between Finnish and Estonian early care and education teachers' goals and their thoughts of ways to achieve these goals in their pedagogical work, based on data from 30 teachers from Finland and 30 teachers from Estonia |
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Change or paradigm shift in the Swedish preschool? A discussion of the relationship between both social investment policy starting in the 1970s and policy work of the 2000s, and a possible paradigm shift in Swedish early care and education (ECE), with a consideration of the goals of Swedish early care and education, funding mechanisms, governance and organization, attendance patterns, and changes in ECE settings due to policy changes, illustrated with examples from two evaluation studies of center-based care settings in Sweden after the introduction of a national curriculum in 1998, and with reference to a study based on interviews with parents and center-based early care and education teachers |
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Grandparenting and childbearing in the extended family A study of the relationship between the role of grandparents' grandchild care provision and their adult children's childbearing behavior, and changes in that relationship for different configurations of extended families and age of the youngest grandchild, with an examination of differences across countries that differ in provision of formal child care availability, based on data from over 16,031 individuals aged 50 years or older from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) for eleven European countries |
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Child-initiated learning, the outdoor environment and the 'underachieving' child The Foundation Phase for Wales advocates an experiential, play-based approach to learning for children aged three to seven years that includes child-initiated activity within the outdoor environment. In previous research, Foundation Phase practitioners maintained that children perceived to be 'underachieving' within the classroom came into their own when engaged in child-initiated learning outdoors. This study, which involved eight Foundation Phase teachers, aimed to explore these perceived differences as well as teachers' perceptions of 'underachievement'. It is concluded that the more natural outdoor spaces in which child-initiated activity took place appeared to amplify the effects of child-initiated learning and diminish the perception of underachievement; that engagement in this project enabled some teachers to see 'underachievement' as being distributed across people, place and activity; and that through constructing the outdoor 'space' as a 'place' embedded with positive meanings, children may have had the opportunity to reconstruct themselves as strong, competent children rather than as 'underachieving' pupils. (author abstract) |
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Complexities in managing the child care industry: An observation on challenges and potentials A discussion of challenges to the provision of child care that include the coexistence of public, private, and non-profit agencies in the child care industry, the operation of legal and non-legal services within the same market segment, the diversity of the work force and resulting instability, various governmental provisions such as grants and loans, and preferences of ethnic clientele, with an argument for a public-private partnership where financial and human resources are pooled together so that every family has equal access to quality child care |
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