Accelerometer measured level of physical activity indoors and outdoors during preschool time in Sweden and the United States
A comparison of young children's physical activity and sedentary behavior during indoor and outdoor time for both boys and girls in Swedish and United States settings, based on data from 50 children with an average age of 52 months, at two sites in Malmo, Sweden and two sites in Raleigh, North Carolina
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Accompaniment and quality in childcare services: The emergence of a culture of professionalization
A case study of a professional development initiative that takes into consideration freedom of movement for children birth through 3 years as a quality indicator in daily educational practice, based on data from a rural setting in the French Community of Belgium in Luxembourg Province from 2004 to 2009
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Accreditation as an alternative pathway to quality in QRIS
A comparison of the Illinois child care quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) ratings that child care centers would receive through either their accreditation status or their observed quality, based on data for 55 accredited child care centers applying to the Illinois QRIS
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Action research to address the transition from kindergarten to primary school: Children's authentic learning, construction play, and pretend play
An identification of transition issues of concern to both parents and their children who were transitioning from kindergarten to first grade, based on data from 10 parents and their 5 children in a suburban kindergarten in Singapore who had graduated, an action research project on the development of a learning experience to prepare children to purchase food at the primary school cafeteria where they were transitioning to, and an account of an action plan to implement the project that included a field trip to the primary school where they purchased food in the cafeteria, based on data from 14 5- to 6-year-old children and their 11 parents
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Advantages of gardening as a form of physical activity in an after-school program
A study of the relationship between participation in a Cooperative Extension Service after school gardening program and the self-reported physical activity levels of children, based on data from 31 children in third through fifth grade in Oklahoma
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The advocacy of educators: Perspectives from early childhood
A phenomenological study of early childhood educators' perceptions of the relationship between advocacy and professional status among multiple stakeholders in diverse contexts, based on data from 12 educators working full time in child care settings across Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Are state child care regulations meeting national oral health and nutritional standards?
A study of state child care regulations in the United States in terms of their inclusion of selected oral health and nutrition standards related to early childhood dental cavities, based on a review of regulations in 50 states and the District of Columbia, from the National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education
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Are two years better than one year?: A propensity score analysis of the impact of Head Start program duration on children's school performance in kindergarten
A comparison of academic and social outcomes by the end of kindergarten between children who attended Head Start for two years and the ones who attended for one year, based on data from 1,778 Head Start children from the Family and Child Experience Survey (FACES)
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The Assessment of Afterschool Program Practices Tool (APT): Findings from the APT Validation Study
Findings from an exploration of the validity and reliability of the Assessment of Afterschool Program Practices Tool (APT), an observational measure of quality in after school programs, based on observations conducted in 25 after school programs in Massachusetts and on survey responses from 824 children in the programs
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Association between attendance of day care centres and increased prevalence of eczema in the German birth cohort study LISAplus
A comparison of the prevalence and cumulative incidence of eczema in East and West Germany and an identification of risk factors associated with eczema, which includes child care attendance, based on data from Immune System and Allergies in East and West Germany Plus the influence of traffic emissions and genetics (LISAplus) birth cohort study conducted in Germany, that includes 3,097 children up to 6 years of age
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Basic factors that affect general academic motivation levels of candidate preschool teachers
An investigation of personal and familial factors associated with both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation levels of preservice early care and education teachers, based on data from 285 students in Turkey at Selcuk University Faculty of Vocational Education in the 2007-2008 academic year
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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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Behind before they begin: The challenge of early childhood education in rural China
An examination of early childhood education (ECE) service delivery in China's poor rural areas that includes student participation rates, student teacher ratio, ECE teacher training, overall quality of the facilities, and child school readiness, and an examination of the relationship between ECE participation and school readiness, based on data from 82 ECE centers in rural villages and 492 households in six counties across three provinces in China
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Beyond the preschool years: Children's perceptions about starting kindergarten
An investigation of preschool children's perceptions about transitions to kindergarten, based on data from focus group discussions with 33 3- and 4-year-old children in Canada
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Caregiver-child relationships as a context for continuity in child care
Case studies of the caregiver-child relationships of 2 toddlers during their transitions from infant to preschool classrooms in a child care center, based on child-caregiver observations, child developmental reports, and caregiver journals, interviews, and perceptions of their child-caregiver relationships
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Changes in child care arrangements in Minnesota
A study of patterns and changes in the child care arrangements of low income families in Minnesota, based on data from four waves of surveys conducted every five to six months with a cohort of 323 low income families with children under the age of 6
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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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Child care in the American South: Poverty, costs, and quality
A study of the relationship between the use of Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) in southern states and family poverty, child care costs, and a variety of related socioeconomic variables, based on data from the National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (NACCRRA) and the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2010, for 14 southern states
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Child care in infancy and cognitive performance until middle childhood in the Millennium Cohort Study
An investigation of associations between non-parental child care received in infancy and children's cognitive outcomes at 3, 5, and 7 years of age, based on data from more than 13,000 children, born in the United Kingdom between 2000 and 2002, from the British Millennium Cohort Study
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Childcare subsidies and labor supply: Evidence from a large Dutch reform
A study of the relationship of an increase in the generosity of child care subsidies in the Netherlands to maternal labor force participation and hours worked, based on 1995-2009 data from the Dutch Labour Force Survey, an annual cross-sectional survey of approximately 80,000 individuals
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Child-care subsidies and school readiness in kindergarten
A study of associations between child care subsidy receipt when children are 4 years old and a range of academic and socioemotional school readiness outcomes in kindergarten, including reading and mathematics ability, externalizing and prosocial behavior, and approaches to learning, based on data from 1,400 children from subsidy-eligible families participating in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort
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Child care subsidies: Parental perceptions and differences between recipients and nonrecipients
A study of child care use differences between recipients and non-recipients of child care subsidies, and an assessment of parental perceptions of the subsidy program, based on data from 156 low income parents in Boone County, Missouri
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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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Chinese immigrant families and bilingualism among young children
A study of the relationship between both English and Mandarin language comprehension and gender, birth order, maternal language level, age of child, age of enrollment in English-speaking educational facilities, and languages used by parents in story reading, based on data from 35 4- to 8-year-olds in two-parent Chinese immigrant families, living in two midsize American cities, who attended English-speaking facilities for over 30 months
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Clipboards and cups of tea: Two women's narrative constructions of professional identity in Sure Start outreach work
An examination of 2 outreach workers' perspectives on developing a professional identity as part of the Sure Start program and their outreach work in the United Kingdom, based on narrative interviews
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