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Within and Beyond the Classroom Door: Assessing Quality in Child Care Centers.
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Findings confirmed prior evidence regarding the importance of ratios, teacher training, and group size for high quality classroom processes, but demonstrated the more significant contribution of teacher wages and parent fees.About:Â
This article is published in Early Childhood Research Quarterly.The article was published on 2000-12-01. It has received 424 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Day care.read more
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Teachers' Education, Classroom Quality, and Young Children's Academic Skills: Results From Seven Studies of Preschool Programs
Diane M. Early,Kelly Maxwell,Margaret Burchinal,Soumya Alva,Randall Bender,Donna M. Bryant,Karen Cai,Richard M. Clifford,Caroline Ebanks,James A. Griffin,Gary T. Henry,Carollee Howes,Jeniffer Iriondo-Perez,Hyun-Joo Jeon,Andrew J. Mashburn,Ellen Peisner-Feinberg,Robert C. Pianta,Nathan Vandergrift,Nicholas Zill +18 more
TL;DR: It is found that policies focused solely on increasing teachers' education will not suffice for improving classroom quality or maximizing children's academic gains, and raising the effectiveness of early childhood education likely will require a broad range of professional development activities and supports targeted toward teachers' interactions with children.
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Inequality in Preschool Education and School Readiness
TL;DR: This paper found that children who attended a center or school-based preschool program in the year before school entry perform better on assessments of reading and math skills upon beginning kindergarten, after controlling for a host of family background and other factors that might be associated with selection into early education programs and relatively high academic skills.
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Does Prekindergarten Improve School Preparation and Performance
TL;DR: This paper found that pre-kindergarten increases reading and mathematics skills at school entry, but also increases behavioral problems and reduces self-control, and the effects of pre-K on skills largely dissipate by the spring of first grade, although the behavioral effects do not.
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Does Prekindergarten Improve School Preparation and Performance
TL;DR: This paper found that pre-kindergarten is associated with higher reading and mathematics skills at school entry, but also higher levels of behavior problems, and that the behavioral effects persist until the spring of first grade.
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Blackwell handbook of childhood social development.
Peter K. Smith,Craig H. Hart +1 more
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Using multivariate statistics
TL;DR: In this Section: 1. Multivariate Statistics: Why? and 2. A Guide to Statistical Techniques: Using the Book Research Questions and Associated Techniques.
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Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale
TL;DR: The ECERS-R scale as mentioned in this paper has been expanded to 43 items and includes many improvements that will make this widely used resource even more valuable to early educators, such as: Interaction items such as staff-child interactions, interactions among children, and discipline.
The relation of child care to cognitive and language development
A Clarke-Stewart,Sarah L. Friedman,Dane Phillips,Cathryn L. Booth,Susan J. Spieker,Robert H. Bradley,Bettye M. Caldwell,Celia A. Brownell,Susan B. Campbell,Peg Burchinal,Martha J. Cox,Kathy Hirsh-Pasek,Jay Belsky,Marsha Weinraub,Aletha C. Huston,Bonnie Knoke,KE Wallner-Allen,N Marshall,K McCartney,Marion O'Brien,M Tresch-Owen,Robert C. Pianta,Deborah Lowe Vandell,K Boller,Dee Ann Batten,Mark Appelbaum +25 more
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Thresholds of quality: implications for the social development of children in center-based child care.
TL;DR: Children cared for in classrooms meeting FIDCR ratios were more likely to be in classrooms rated as good or very good in caregiving and activities and children with social orientations to adults and peers were more competent with peers.
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