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			Demonstrating effective child care quality improvement Taylor, Karen, 2002 Chapel Hill, NC: FPG Child Development Institute. A description of 12 North Carolina child care program and community agency collaboration strategies, using data from 37 interviews with their leaders and participants	Reports & Papers
			Identifying profiles of quality in home-based child care United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, April, 2012 (Issue Brief OPRE 2012-20). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. A study to identify profiles of child care quality among a sample of family child care providers and to examine provider characteristics associated with each profile, based on an analysis of observational and survey data collected from 341 family child care providers in the Quality Interventions for Early Care and Education (QUINCE) Partnerships for Inclusion (PFI) study	Reports & Papers
			Predictors of global quality in family child care homes: Structural and belief characteristics Hughes-Belding, Kere, September, 2012 Early Education and Development, 23(5), 697-712 A study of the relationship between observed global quality and both provider beliefs and structural characteristics, such as child-per-adult ratio, education, and professional development, among family child care providers, with an additional examination of the unique role of provider beliefs, based on data from 257 family providers participating in a longitudinal study of the Partners for Inclusion consultation on quality improvement in child care across five states	Reports & Papers
			Treatment fidelity challenges in a five-state consultation study Wesley, Patricia W., July-September 2010 Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation, 20(3), 209-227 A study of the effect of the use of Partnership for Inclusion (PFI) training in the preparation of consultants who implement quality improvement interventions at child care centers, based on measurements of fidelity of implementation at over 300 child care sites served by 58 consultants across five states	Reports & Papers
			The QUINCE-PFI study: An evaluation of a promising model for child care provider training: Final report Bryant, Donna M., September 2009 Chapel Hill, NC: FPG Child Development Institute. An examination of the efficacy of an individualized, assessment-based, on-site consultation model of professional development for the quality improvement of early childhood programs, based on 108 child care classrooms and 263 family child care homes from twenty-four agencies in five states assigned to a group to receive a professional development intervention or to a control group	Reports & Papers
			Measures of classroom quality in prekindergarten and children�s development of academic, language, and social skills Mashburn, Andrew J., May/June 2008 Child Development, 79(3), 732-749 A study of the relationships between common measures of quality in prekindergarten programs and children�s academic, language, and social outcomes	Reports & Papers
			Effects of a community initiative on the quality of child care Bryant, Donna M., 1999 Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 14(4), 449-464 A study of the impact of Smart Start, a state-funded program to implement local quality improvement initiatives on preschool quality	Reports & Papers
			Family child care in North Carolina Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen S., 2000 Chapel Hill, NC: Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center. A study of quality in family child care homes in North Carolina and the relationship between quality of care and involvement in Smart Start quality improvement efforts	Reports & Papers
			Quality in kindergarten classrooms: Observational evidence for the need to increase children�s learning opportunities in early education classrooms La Paro, Karen M., July 2009 Early Education and Development, 20(4), 657-692 An investigation of the quality and content of children�s learning experiences in kindergarten and how individual children experience classroom quality, based on data from 240 prekindergarten classroons and a subsample of 730 kindergarten classrooms attended by participants of a larger study	Reports & Papers
			Smart Start and preschool child care quality in NC: Change over time and relation to children's readiness Bryant, Donna M., 2003 Chapel Hill, NC: FPG Child Development Institute. An observational study of the Smart Start preschool program at 110 early education centers between 1994 and 1999 in North Carolina	Reports & Papers
			Smart Start and child care in North Carolina: Effects on quality and changes over time Bryant, Donna M., 2002 Chapel Hill, NC: FPG Child Development Institute. A longitudinal investigation into the links between the implementation of Smart Start and the quality of child care in North Carolina, using data gathered through staff interviews and observations using the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (ECERS) of 180 child care centers from twelve participation sites	Reports & Papers
			Georgia study of early care and education: Child care center findings Maxwell, Kelly, December 2009 Chapel Hill, NC: FPG Child Development Institute. An investigation of process quality and program characteristics of preschool programs, based on data from a random sample of 112 child care centers in Georgia in 2008-2009	Reports & Papers
			Cuyahoga County Early Childhood Initiative evaluation: Phase I final report Coulton, Claudia, 2003 Cleveland, OH: Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences (Case Western Reserve University), Center on Urban Poverty and Social Change. An evaluation of Cuyahoga County, California's Early Childhood Initiative plan for universal comprehensive care access for children from birth to age 5	Reports & Papers
			Contributions of hot and cool self-regulation to preschool disruptive behavior and academic achievement Willoughby, Michael T., 2011 Developmental Neuropsychology, 36(2), 162-180 A study of the relationships among children's self regulation style, disruptive behavior, letter-word identification ability, mathematical skills, phonological awareness, inhibitory control, age, gender, and Head Start attendance, based on data from sample of 926 3-through 5-year-olds from Head Start and child care programs within a 60-mile radius of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill	Reports & Papers
			Pre-kindergarten in eleven states: NCEDL's Multi-State Study of Pre-Kindergarten and study of State-Wide Early Education Programs (SWEEP): Preliminary descriptive report Early, Diane Marie, 2005 Chapel Hill, NC: National Center for Early Development & Learning. An outline of key descriptive findings about the characteristics of prekindergarten children and their families, teachers and their classes, classroom quality, and academic assessments, from the Multi-State Study of Pre-Kindergarten and the Study of State-Wide Early Education Programs (SWEEP)	Reports & Papers
			The effects of Smart Start on the quality of preschool child care Bryant, Donna M., 1997 Chapel Hill, NC: Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center. A study of the effects of a broad-based community initiative, Smart Start, to improve the quality of preschool child care between 1994 and 1996	Reports & Papers
			A six-county study of the effects of Smart Start child care on kindergarten entry skills Maxwell, Kelly, 1999 Chapel Hill, NC: Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center. A study measuring the Smart Start program's effectiveness in six North Carolina counties by comparing the school readiness of Smart Start children entering kindergarten to the readiness of children from other programs	Reports & Papers
			Center-based child care in the pioneer Smart Start partnerships of North Carolina Maxwell, Kelly, 1996 Chapel Hill, NC: Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center An exploration of North Carolina�s Smart Start program, a partnership between state government and local leaders, service providers, and families, concerned with improving the quality of the state�s center-based child care institutions	Reports & Papers
			Quality of early childhood programs in inclusive and noninclusive settings Buysse, Virginia, 1999 Exceptional Children, 65(3), 301-314 A study of the factors that contributed to global program quality in early childhood settings broken down by inclusive setting, those with at least one handicapped child, and noninclusive settings	Reports & Papers
			Families & the North Carolina Smart Start Initiative Lowman, Betsy, 1997 Chapel Hill, NC: Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center. An examination of the characteristics, child care arrangements, family activities, and need and use of community services for Smart Start participating families, based on interviews with 356 randomly selected families	Reports & Papers
			Reaching out to all children in North Carolina: Summary of efforts by local Smart Start partnerships to locate children aged 0-5 who are not in regulated child care Taylor, Karen, 2001 Chapel Hill, NC: Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center. An investigation into the ways that Smart Start partnerships are addressing the needs of children enrolled in unregulated child care and early education programs	Reports & Papers
			Smart Start client information system: Feasibility study Maxwell, Kelly, 1998 Chapel Hill, NC: Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center. An examination of a client information system to measure all the children and families served by Smart Start, a North Carolina Early Childhood Initiative which partners state government, local leaders, service providers, and families to serve young children	Reports & Papers
			The effects of Smart Start child care on kindergarten entry skills Maxwell, Kelly, 1998 Chapel Hill, NC: Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center. An examination of the effects of Smart Start-funded programs on the cognitive, language, and social skills of children entering kindergarten in Orange County, California, emphasizing the impact of family income, based on results from the Kindergarten Teacher Checklist rating scale on a group of 39 kindergarteners who attended a Smart Start funded program and a group of 272 children who attended other child care programs or received no center-based care	Reports & Papers
			Georgia study of early care and education: Family child care findings Maxwell, Kelly, December, 2010 Chapel Hill, NC: FPG Child Development Institute. A study of the characteristics and quality of family child care programs in Georgia, based on interviews with and observations of 155 family child care providers	Reports & Papers
			Child care in the pioneer partnerships: 1994 and 1996 Maxwell, Kelly, 1997 Chapel Hill, NC: Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center. An evaluation of North Carolina?s Smart Start pioneer partnerships in 1994 and 1996, building on the earlier Effects of Smart Start on the Quality of Preschool Child Care evaluation, focusing on services provided, teacher education and training, and overall quality	Reports & Papers

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