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Teachers' education, classroom quality, and young children's academic skills: Results from seven studies of preschool programs

…, KL Maxwell, M Burchinal, S Alva… - Child …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
7. The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early
Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD) is directed by a Steering Committee and
supported by the NICHD through a cooperative agreement (U10), which calls for scientific ...

Measures of classroom quality in prekindergarten and children's development of academic, language, and social skills

AJ Mashburn, RC Pianta, BK Hamre… - Child …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
... have served as the standard measure in the field of early education for more ... cues) and instructional
aspects of interactions (eg, the extent to which teachers' behaviors promote ... is a multifaceted,
multilevel construct that includes a variety of program and classroom features, and ...

… effect of education on child care teachers' beliefs and classroom quality: Year one evaluation of the TEACH early childhood associate degree scholarship program

…, MI Buell, S Pugh-Hoese, S Russell - Early Childhood Research …, 1995 - Elsevier
... between teacher education and knowledge of developmentally appropriate practices or classroom
performance, or both ... Snider & Fu, 1990; Whitebook et al., Effect of Education 183 1989 ... found
are supportive of a policy position requiring higher teacher educational qualifications ...

The relation of preschool child‐care quality to children's cognitive and social developmental trajectories through second grade

ES Peisner‐Feinberg, MR Burchinal… - Child …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
... versus 72% nationally for families with children under 18 years), average maternal education
of 14.25 ... included the cross-disciplinary connections and linkages to life be- yond the classroom
subscales, .79. ... from 81% to 98% for parents and 81% to 96% for teachers each year. ...

Are teachers' education, major, and credentials related to classroom quality and children's academic gains in pre-kindergarten?

…, RM Clifford, MR Burchinal, S Ritchie… - Early Childhood …, 2006 - Elsevier
... On the other hand, if higher levels of education are associated with classroom quality only as
a ... is not related to early childhood, that would seem to indicate that education is serving ... persistence,
academic aptitude) and not as a means to actually instruct teachers in appropriate ...

Characterizing early childhood education programs for poor and middle-class children

…, D Daniels, D Galluzzo, S Milburn - Early Childhood Research …, 1992 - Elsevier
... NY: Teachers College Press. ... The classroom practices inventory: An observation instrument based
on NAEYC's guidelines for developmentally appropriate practices for 4 and 5yearold children. ...
Leading primary education toward excellence: Beyond worksheets and drill. ...

Effects of different instructional approaches on young children's achievement and motivation

…, R Feiler, D Daniels, S Milburn - Child Development, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
... four out of 10) than didactic education, which was used in some of the preschool teachers. ... Scores
were given for mother's and father's education—from 1 These regulatable quality measures
(part ... The two scores were averaged to give pects of the classroom climate and instruc ...

Early childhood education: Young adult outcomes from the Abecedarian Project

…, J Sparling, S Miller-Johnson - Applied …, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
... mother was young (M= 20 years old), had less than a high school education (M = 10 ... Because
regular meetings with classroom teachers and parents took place, the HST was able to enhance
com ... covers a variety of behav- iors associated with injury or illness in young adults. ...

Features of pre-kindergarten programs, classrooms, and teachers: Do they predict observed classroom quality and child-teacher interactions?

R Pianta, C Howes, M Burchinal… - Applied …, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
... termine if the child was assigned to a high-poverty classroom. We made several preliminary
analyses of teacher education and training to derive the most parsimoni- ous ... Originally, we were
interested in examining the associations be- tween quality and these two indicators ...

Inequality in preschool education and school readiness

KA Magnuson, MK Meyers, CJ Ruhm… - American Educational …, 2004 - aer.sagepub.com
... Magnuson et al. 124 Page 11. In the fall and spring of kindergarten, teachers filled out
questionnaires to provide information specific to each child in the study and all students in the
classroom, as well as their own attitudes, education, and classroom practices. ...

Teacher qualifications, classroom practices, family characteristics, and preschool experience: Complex effects on first graders' vocabulary and early reading outcomes

C McDonald Connor, SH Son, AH Hindman… - Journal of school …, 2005 - Elsevier
... Elementary teaching credentials (yes/no), 755, 0, 1, .97, Teacher years of education, 728, 16.00,
22.00, 17.24, .80. Observed number of children in classroom, 735, 2.50, 50.00, 19.28, 4.29.
Classroom time on academic activities, 735, 0, 105.00, 49.55, 12.30. ...

Good beginnings: What difference does the program make in preparing young children for school?

…, R Feiler, P Byler, R Ryan, S Milburn… - Journal of Applied …, 1998 - Elsevier
... classroomtype as the independent variables, and the classroom reg ulatable quality index as
a ... context on learning and the relatively low teacherchild ratio or level of teacher education. ... cognitive
domain, five of the motivation measures showing significant classroom effects that ...

Two-way and monolingual English immersion in preschool education: An experimental comparison

WS Barnett, DJ Yarosz, J Thomas, K Jung… - Early Childhood …, 2007 - Elsevier
... Observers generally were students with a background in education or psychology and former ...
Harms, Clifford, & Cryer, 1998) provides a global measure of preschool classroom quality with
43 ... cover a broad range of quality considerations from safety to teacher–child interaction ...

Observed classroom quality profiles in state-funded pre-kindergarten programs and associations with teacher, program, and classroom characteristics

J LoCasale-Crouch, T Konold, R Pianta… - Early Childhood …, 2007 - Elsevier
... Early Development and Learning Multi-State Pre-Kindergarten and State Wide Early Education
Program studies and examines associated teacher, program, and classroom ... from this large sample
of classrooms allows for the detection of a classroom-based typology ...

The first two years of school: Teacher-child relationships and deflections in children's classroom adjustment

RC Pianta, MS Steinberg… - Development and …, 1995 - Cambridge Univ Press
... communication problems (not articulation), poor performance on standardized tests and classroom
tasks, and ... referred for retention in kindergarten were also referred for special education later in ...
which to interpret the findings related to deflections in teacher-reported classroom ...

Early teacher–child relationships and the trajectory of children's school outcomes through eighth grade

BK Hamre… - Child development, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
... Mother's education, which was only available for 147 of the cases, was dis- tributed as ... The TCRS
has been employed as an indicator of classroom adjustment, correlating moderately with ... regarding
the im- portance of the negative components of the teacher– child relationship ...

Family and classroom correlates of Head Start children's developmental outcomes

DM Bryant, M Burchinal, LB Lau… - Early Childhood Research …, 1994 - Elsevier
... The Classroom Practices Inventory: An observation instrument based on NAEYC's guidelines
for developmentally appro priate practices for 4 and ... Issues in kindergarten education: A survey
of ele mentary principals, kindergarten teachers, and first grade teachers. ...

Early childhood education teachers: Do they practice what they preach?

DJ Stipek… - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1997 - Elsevier
... In S. Reifel (Ed.), Perspectives on developmen- tally appropriate practice: Advances in early
education and day care, 5 (pp. ... Measuring the developmental appropriateness of kindergarten
teachers' beliefs and practices. ... Other people's children: Cultural conflict in the classroom. ...

Persistent effects of early childhood education on high-risk children and their mothers

CT Ramey, FA Campbell, M Burchinal… - Applied …, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
... learning activities based on the ob- jectives established with the classroom teacher were a ... to
community agencies for social services, housing, medical care, adult education, or employment ...
reading, and mathematics, and writing Master Home/School Resource Teachers with 12 ...

Ready to learn? Children's pre-academic achievement in pre-kindergarten programs

C Howes, M Burchinal, R Pianta, D Bryant… - Early Childhood …, 2008 - Elsevier
... Children in this sample had a mean maternal education level of 12.8 years. Fifty-eight percent
of the children were non-Caucasian. ... Teachers completed questionnaires about their
educational background and study children. 2.6. Classroom processes. ...

Enhancing school-based prevention and youth development through coordinated social, emotional, and academic learning.

MT Greenberg, RP Weissberg… - American …, 2003 - psycnet.apa.org
... Person-centered affective education and interpersonal problem-solving training, as well as ... environ-
ments; (c) caring relationships between students and teachers that foster ... ing teaching approaches
such as cooperative learning and proactive classroom management; and (e ...

The effect of primary-school quality on academic achievement across twenty-nine high-and low-income countries

SP Heyneman… - American Journal of sociology, 1983 - JSTOR
... When school characteristics-such as teacher education-contained more than one value, these
values were ... This severely constrained the influence of school and teacher quality because it
eliminated from consideration ... In con- trast, if the classroom or the school is chosen as the ...

Temperament and language skills as predictors of teacher-child relationship quality in preschool

KM Rudasill, SE Rimm-Kaufman… - Early Education and …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
... Teacher education Associate's degree or some college 3 0 ... In the first block, teachers were entered
as dummy variables. In the second block, language complexity (mean MLU), shyness (CBQ scores
determined by classroom aides), and an interaction term for language and ...

Teacher education and PK outcomes: Are we asking the right questions?

K Bogard, F Traylor… - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2008 - Elsevier
... consistent relationships between teacher degree, major, and certification, and PK outcomes
(Early, DM, Bryant, DM, Pianta, RC, Clifford, RM, Burchinal, MR, Ritchie, S., et al. ... Teachers'
education, classroom quality, and young children's academic skills: Results from seven ...

[BOOK] Preschool education and its lasting effects: Research and policy implications

, … Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice - 2008 - greatlakescenter.org
... half to two-thirds, the number of arrests by age 27 fell by half, and employment at age 40 showed
an increase of 14 percentage points.48 Another study of public school preschool education was
conducted by ... A teacher and an aide staffed each preschool classroom of 17 ...

Benefits of compensatory preschool education

WS Barnett - Journal of Human Resources, 1992 - JSTOR
... All studies of the effects of center-based pre- school education programs for children of low ... educa-
tion programs in these studies should be regarded as of higher quality than typical ... Initial sample
sizes are modest, and in some cases the comparison groups are extremely small. ...

Early childhood education programs

J Currie - The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2001 - JSTOR
... Teacher/student ratios were 1 to 6, and all teachers had master's degrees and training in child ...
There is a large gap between the model programs for early childhood education and the
large-scale ... is run at the local level, but local operators are subject to federal quality guidelines ...

Relating quality of center‐based child care to early cognitive and language development longitudinally

MR Burchinal, JE Roberts, R Riggins Jr… - Child …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
... The class size and number of adults in the classroom were recorded during the classroom
observation. Teachers were also asked about class size, number of adults, and years of
education of each caregiver when the ITERS or ECERS data were collected. ...

Can instructional and emotional support in the first‐grade classroom make a difference for children at risk of school failure?

BK Hamre… - Child development, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
... climate, negative emotional climate (reflected), effective classroom management, teacher
sensitivity, intrusiveness ... The distribution of classroom support among the risk groups is presented
in ... Despite this differential placement based on maternal education levels, there were ...

[BOOK] A vision for universal preschool education

E Zigler, WS Gilliam… - 2006 - books.google.com
... Early education services are pro- vided in a classroom environment and are appropriate for the ...
assistant teacher r Requirementsthatteachershaveaminimumofabachelor'sdegreeas well as
specialized training in early childhood education, and assis- tant teachers have at ...

Best practices for beginners: Developmental appropriateness in kindergarten

DM Bryant, RM Clifford… - American Educational …, 1991 - aer.sagepub.com
... sam- ple was representative of the population of elementary school principals and kindergarten
teachers in the state (North Carolina Board of Education, 1987, 1988 ... Environment Rating Scale
The primary observational measure of the quality of the classroom en- vironments ...

Development of academic skills from preschool through second grade: Family and classroom predictors of developmental trajectories

MR Burchinal, E Peisner-Feinberg, R Pianta… - Journal of School …, 2002 - Elsevier
... The significant interaction among the family and classroom variables indicated that
teacher-reported ... Family characteristics such as maternal education and parents' caregiving
practices and parenting ... of the child care setting, especially qualities of the teacher–child ...

The classroom practices inventory: An observation instrument based on NAEYC's guidelines for developmentally appropriate practices for 4-and 5-year-old children

MC Hyson, K Hirsh-Pasek… - Early Childhood Research …, 1990 - Elsevier
... Measurement of classroom process. In B. Spodek (Ed.), Handbook of research in early childhood
education. New York: The Free Press. Spodek, B. (1986). ... (I) 5. Children are physically active in
the classroom, choosing from activities the teacher ... (I) 8. Teachers ask questions that ...

Predicting child outcomes at the end of kindergarten from the quality of pre-kindergarten teacher–child interactions and instruction

M Burchinal, C Howes, R Pianta… - Applied Development …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
... Having shown that child-care quality, at a global level, predicts school achievement or ... first year
in school are linked to specific aspects of the early education classroom environment. ... that
children's cognitive and social skills appear to be enhanced when teachers are responsive ...

A critical meta-analysis of all evaluations of state-funded preschool from 1977 to 1998: Implications for policy, service delivery and program evaluation

WS Gilliam… - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2001 - Elsevier
... however, these programs varied significantly in terms of their structure, accessibility, duration,
classroom characteristics, comprehensiveness of ... as a minimum Head Start Bureau 1999 and
National Association for the Education of Young ... Teacher Training d, In-Service Training? ...

[BOOK] Preventing reading difficulties in young children

CE Snow, MS Burns… - 1998 - books.google.com
... Student Progress Toward the Development of Reading Com- petence: Classroom-Based
Assessment ... policies of federal, state, and local governments impinging on young children's
education; the pressures on ... important challenge is to make sure that our teachers have access ...

The effectiveness of early childhood development programs* 1:: A systematic review

LM Anderson, C Shinn, MT Fullilove… - American journal of …, 2003 - Elsevier
... Recommendation 6: High quality, center-based early education programs should be more widely ...
Future interventions directed at infants and young children should focus on strengthening other ...
test scores, IQ test scores, grade retention, and placement in special education; ...

The persistence of preschool effects: Do subsequent classroom experiences matter?

KA Magnuson, C Ruhm… - Early Childhood Research …, 2007 - Elsevier
... The teacher survey includes four response categories measured in 30 min increments, ranging
from 1 ... Children are not placed into different classroom environments entirely at random ... income
to needs ratios (3.07 versus 2.83) and higher levels of maternal education (57 percent ...

The relation of kindergarten classroom environment to teacher, family, and school characteristics and child outcomes

RC Pianta, KM La Paro, C Payne, MJ Cox… - The Elementary School …, 2002 - JSTOR
... the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Academic Competence Rating Scale (National Center
for Education Statistics [NCES ... TABLE 1. Simple Correlations between Quality Composites and
Classroom Activities and Teacher-Child ... Negative teacher affect -.136* -.322*** -.331*** ...

Effects of web-mediated professional development resources on teacher–child interactions in pre-kindergarten classrooms

RC Pianta, AJ Mashburn, JT Downer… - Early Childhood …, 2008 - Elsevier
... 3) parents or guardians are school dropouts, have less than high school education, or are ... at the
district level and recognize that causal inferences cannot be made at the classroom level ... size
(in terms of number of classrooms in the pre-k program) before teachers were recruited ...

Costs, benefits, and long-term effects of early care and education programs: Recommendations and cautions for community developers

WS Barnett… - Community Development, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
... Beyond improvements in classroom behavior and juvenile delinquency, several studies have
found substantial ... Two randomized trials on Parents as Teachers found small and inconsistent
effects on ... round educational child care plus home visits to parent education alone or no ...

Does prekindergarten improve school preparation and performance?

KA Magnuson, C Ruhm… - Economics of Education Review, 2007 - Elsevier
... of state per capita income and state public spending on welfare and education programs in 1998. ...
are neighborhood based) as well as biases that might arise from teachers using differing ... set of
observed characteristics or comparing children within the same classroom may fail ...

Quality of center child care and infant cognitive and language development

MR Burchinal, JE Roberts, LA Nabors… - Child …, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
... years). Ofthe 21 teachers and aides, 16 had a high school education, two had
a CDA, and three had a bachelor's degree. The ... Most excluded children were
too old when we began re- cruiting in their classroom. Only ...

Early learning and school readiness: Can early intervention make a difference?

CT Ramey… - … sciences: essays in honor of Merrill- …, 2007 - books.google.com
... Delays of this magnitude consti- tute a serious educational challenge for classroom teachers
and school ... and achievement (rather than attributing them to factors such as teacher bias, chance ...
The field of preschool education and early intervention is not with- out controversy or ...

Socioeconomic disadvantage and child development.

VC McLoyd - American Psychologist, 1998 - psycnet.apa.org
... The influence of poverty on children's classroom placement and behavior problems. In G. Duncan
& J. Brooks-Gunn (Eds.), Consequences of growing up poor (pp. ... Student social class and teacher
expectations: The self-fulfilling prophecy in ghetto education. ...

[BOOK] Prepared for Kindergarten: What Does" readiness" Mean?

…, National Institute for Early Education Research - 2005 - education.ok.gov
... the most crucial variables leading to high-quality preschool is teacher education and training ...
Start programs that participated in initiatives designed to raise teachers' qualifications, pay ... of
Smart Start activities was significantly correlated with preschool classroom quality, which in ...

Improving preschool classroom processes: Preliminary findings from a randomized trial implemented in Head Start settings

CC Raver, SM Jones, CP Li-Grining… - Early Childhood …, 2008 - Elsevier
... Because the number of teachers exiting the study was too small to analyze comparatively ... b) child
gender; (c) child age; (d) household family structure; (e) maternal education; (f) maternal ... Third,
treatment impacts on classroom quality over time were examined using an intent-to ...

Quality of early childhood programs in inclusive and noninclusive settings

V Buysse, PW Wesley, D Bryant… - … Children, 1999 - freepatentsonline.com
... Family and classroom correlates of Head Start children's developmental outcomes. ... Topics in
Early Childhood Special Education, 16, 476-499. ... Who cares? Child care teachers and the quality
of care in America.' Final report, National Child Care Staffing Study. ...

[PDF] The effects of state prekindergarten programs on young children's school readiness in five states

WS Barnett, C Lamy… - … Institute for Early Education …, 2005 - mcesa.k12.mi.us
... or Spanish depending on their strongest language, which was ascertained from the classroom
teacher. ... by raising their teacher qualifications standards and compensating teachers accordingly. ...
with a view toward continuous improvement so that preschool education can be ...

Video self-modeling intervention in school-based settings

CH Hitchcock, PW Dowrick… - … and Special Education, 2003 - rse.sagepub.com
... school-based studies, a majority of which have been conducted outside of the general education
classroom setting, suggested ... dConnors Teacher Rating Scale (Connors, 1989 ... Nine of the studies
reported data from gen- eral education classrooms, seven were conducted in self ...

Preschool education for economically disadvantaged children: Effects on reading achievement and related outcomes

WS Barnett - Handbook of early literacy research, 2001 - books.google.com
... Generally, these programs provided more intensive, higher-quality ser- vices than did the
large-scale public pro ... children part-day for one school year at age 4. Class size and child-teacher
ratio are ... 8 | 2 3t2Ł iŁ SŁ SŁ 1 5-^> s§§ " S 3" S^ 1 PreRhool Education Proncai Research ...

The efficacy of public preschool programs and the relationship of program quality to efficacy

WS Barnett, EC Frede… - … Evaluation and Policy …, 1988 - epa.sagepub.com
... Older children who had at- tended preschool were less likely to be in a compensatory education
program, more likely to score ready ... First, the ANCOVA was repeated omitting the two
teacher/schools with the lowest PCI scores (and the lowest classroom management scores ...

Educational effects of the Tools of the Mind curriculum: A randomized trial

…, A Hornbeck, R Stechuk, S Burns - Early Childhood …, 2008 - Elsevier
... Each classroom must have a teacher with a BA and certification in early childhood
education who works together with an aide. Class size is limited to 15 students.
Support includes mentor teachers to coach teaching staff. ...

[BOOK] The Universial Vs. Targeted Debate: Should the United States Have Preschool for All?

…, National Institute for Early Education Research - 2004 - icpsr.umich.edu
... About half the states have higher teacher qualifications requirements than Head Start. To some
extent this is possible because state programs provide less intensive services outside the
classroom, but it ... Preschool special education programs are by far the best funded per child ...

Physical education and academic achievement in elementary school: data from the early childhood longitudinal study

SA Carlson, JE Fulton, SM Lee… - Journal …, 2008 - ajph.aphapublications.org
... If we had measurements of quality and actual active time during physical education, we ... because
information about time in physical education was collected from classroom teachers at each ... M,
Marshall S, Rosengard P. Effects of health-related physical education on academic ...

Quality of language and literacy instruction in preschool classrooms serving at-risk pupils

LM Justice, AJ Mashburn, BK Hamre… - Early Childhood Research …, 2008 - Elsevier
... 1.3.1. Teacher and classroom characteristics. ... The first was a demographic questionnaire
requesting information from teachers about their education, teaching experience, and ... Teachers
also provided information on the composition of children in their classrooms (see Table 1). ...

Enhancing Early Literacy Skills for Preschool Children Bringing a Professional Development Model to Scale

SH Landry, PR Swank, KE Smith… - Journal of Learning …, 2006 - ldx.sagepub.com
... through training and mentoring could lead to greater teacher commitment to remain in the
classroom. ... for both years are illustrated in Figure 1 for teacher ethnicity, education, and pre ... that
program effects were not due to systematic dif- ferences between the teachers in the in ...

Academic and social attainments of children with mental retardation in general education and special education settings

SFN Freeman… - Remedial and Special Education, 2000 - rse.sagepub.com
... We have rejected the use of meta-analysis because of the small number of ... Studies that examined
the perceptions of teachers on the concept of integration were not ... chil- dren with mental retardation
and typically developing chil- dren from the general education classroom. ...

Intensive behavioral treatment at school for 4-to 7-year-old children with autism

S Eikeseth, T Smith, E Jahr… - Behavior modification, 2002 - bmo.sagepub.com
... children general- ize skills to natural settings with regular peers, adjust to classroom routines
and ... Prior to the study, none of the therapists (teachers and aides) had had any supervised ... in the
amount of treatment that children received and the level of education that therapists ...

Teacher-child relationships and children's success in the first years of school

RC Pianta… - School Psychology Review, 2004 - questia.com
... He is particularly interested in how relationships with teachers and parents, as well as classroom
quality, can help ... Megan W. Stuhlman, PhD, graduated from The Curry School of Education's
Programs in Clinical and School Psychology at the University of Virginia in ...

How early childhood teacher beliefs vary across grade level

S Vartuli - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1999 - Elsevier
... between early childhood teachers' reported beliefs and observed classroom practices across
this ... with academic degrees in child development or early childhood education scored significantly
higher on developmentally appropriate practice measures than teachers with other ...

Children's social and cognitive development and child-care quality: Testing for differential associations related to poverty, gender, or ethnicity

MR Burchinal, E Peisner-Feinberg… - Applied …, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
... All teachers were certified to teach in North Carolina with a minimum education of a ... A randomly
selected sample of 63 class- rooms was observed and teachers completed question ... & Clifford,
1980), which examines the develop- mental appropriateness of classroom practices by ...

Academic performance among at-risk children: The role of developmentally appropriate practices

LR Huffman, PW Speer - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2000 - Elsevier
... Some classrooms were not assessed due to teacher absence (3) and teacher refusal (1 ... a
yes/no basis according to whether they characterize the individual classroom during the ...
professional standards for DAP established by the National Association for the Education of Young ...

The early childhood classroom observation measure

D Stipek… - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2004 - Elsevier
... Teachers who stress understanding are more likely to engage students in open-ended ... This study
examines the reliability and validity of the scores this new classroom observation instrument ... Below
we review existing observation measures of early childhood education quality. ...

… appropriate public school preschool: A study of implementation of the High/Scope curriculum and its effects on disadvantaged children's skills at first grade

E Frede… - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1992 - Elsevier
... An intricate examination of children's ex- periences in the kindergarten year with classroom
andhome observations, as well as teacher interviews, might ... case, the public schools, to a great
degree led by the state department of education, were traditionallycommitted ...

Introducing the issue

CE Rouse, S McLanahan… - The future of children, 2005 - icpsr.umich.edu
... Again, to have their greatest impact, high-quality programs must aim at saturating the classroom
and the community and changing multiple aspects of ... Jeanne Brooks-Gunn is Virginia and Leonard
Marx Professor of Child Development and Education at Teachers College and ...

Effects of self-evaluation on the independent work skills of preschool children with disabilities

DM Sainato, PS Strain, D Lefebvre… - … Children, 1990 - freepatentsonline.com
... education classroom and the transfer of such behaviors from special to regular education. ...
practicality of this methodology might focus on the ability of classroom teachers to implement ...
children have learned the procedures and are working more independently, teachers may be ...

Social‐emotional classroom climate in child care, child‐teacher relationships and children's second grade peer relations

C Howes - Social Development, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
... Demographics Mothers education ... teachers may benefit from an increased awareness of the
importance of the social and emotional climate of the classroom. ... We suggest that teacher
preparation programs may need to focus on this aspect of cur- riculum for young children as ...

A descriptive analysis of positive behavioral intervention research with young children with challenging behavior

MA Conroy, G Dunlap, S Clarke… - … Special Education, 2005 - tec.sagepub.com
... For example, No Child Left Behind (NCLB) stresses the need to conduct high-quality research
and translate our research findings to ... As seen in Table 2, teachers applied interventions in 42%
(31) and researchers in 37% (27) of the studies. ... Special education classroom 22 16 ...

Fostering high-quality teaching with an enriched curriculum and professional development support: The Head Start REDI program

CE Domitrovich, SD Gest, S Gill… - American …, 2009 - aer.sagepub.com
... Reading First, Early Reading First, and Early Childhood Education Professional Development ...
These differences in quality were observed across classroom contexts, including contexts that ...
eg, mealtime, free play), suggesting that the differences in teacher behavior generalized ...

[PDF] Preschool is school, sometimes

RC Pianta - Education Next, 2007 - media.hoover.org
... nature and quality of children's experiences in early education settings should spark an interest
in raising the quality of classroom supports broadly ... One option is to focus on structural features
of schools and classrooms, such as teacher education and certification, class size ...

Education matters in the nurturing of the beliefs of preschool caregivers and teachers

MB McMullen… - Early Childhood Research & …, 2002 - freepatentsonline.com
... (2000). Within and beyond the classroom door: Assessing quality in child care centers. ... Saluja,
Gitanjali; Early, Diane M.; & Clifford, Richard M. (2001). Characteristics of early childhood teachers
and structural elements of early care and education in the United States. ...

The role of program quality in producing early childhood program benefits

EC Frede - The Future of Children, 1995 - JSTOR
... of the three strands of literature on classroom practices suggests that (1) early education and
child ... to staff influence whether programs have positive effects on children; and (4) teachers with
specialized ... Curricula and Classroom Practices in the Programs Studied Longitudinally ...

Defining and assessing early childhood program quality

D Cryer - The annals of the American academy of political and …, 1999 - ann.sagepub.com
... variables include mea- sures of group size, adult-child ratios, and the education and experi ... the
defini- tion has expanded to include vari- ables, such as staff wages, teacher turnover, or ... to support
classroom quality, rather than to the more proximal features of classroom qual- ity ...

[PDF] Computer applications in programs for young children with disabilities: Current status and future directions

SL Judge - Journal of Special Education …, 2001 - truddentechnology.hcpss.wikispaces …
... in classrooms depends on: (a) the quality of the software, (b) the attitude of the teachers, (c) the ...
While having a computer available in a classroom means accessibility, it does not guarantee
appropriate use. The ... education teachers use computer applications in their classrooms. ...

Response to instruction as a means of identifying students with reading/learning disabilities

S Vaughn, S Linan-Thompson… - Exceptional children, 2003 - CEC
... degrees, (b) were experienced working in educational settings (two were certified teachers, two
were ... element of instruction, are pro- vided in Table 1. The quality of instruction ... to make gains
(based on reading fluency) in the general education classroom without supplemental ...

[BOOK] Unlocking the curriculum: Principles for achieving access in deaf education

RE Johnson, SK Liddell… - 1989 - saveourdeafschools.org
... Productions of this quality are not unusual among hearing teachers using SSS. ... This is contradictory
to our view that classroom education depends on teachers' ability to adjust their ... The child's
competence in ASL grammar would not help because the teacher's utterances are not ...

[PDF] Preschool programs can boost school readiness

WT Gormley, D Phillips… - SCIENCE-NEW YORK …, 2008 - crocus.georgetown.edu
... Differences in Classroom Time Allocation, Tulsa Public Schools (TPS) Pre-K and CAP of Tulsa
County Head Start Teachers. ... white as comparison category 3. Effect of free lunch eligibility, with
paid lunch as comparison category 4. Effect of mother's college education, with no ...

Promoting Academic and Social‐Emotional School Readiness: The Head Start REDI Program

…, C Blair, KE Nelson, S Gill - Child …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
... has been referred to as the nation's “premier” federally sponsored early childhood education
program developed to ... 9. Attention problems: Teacher, −.72, −.14, −.35, .60, .19, .28, −.73, −.32,
10. ... Because the intervention was delivered at the classroom level, analyses accounted for ...

After preschool inclusion: Children's educational pathways over the early school years

MJ Hanson, M Morgan, E Horn, S Sandall… - Exceptional children, 2001 - CEC
... Kindergarten Teacher: Fifty-fifty, because it's a long day ... par- ents that they would be able to spend
more time with children in special education settings and ... Funding for paraprofessional assis-
tants or classroom aides also was perceived to be linked to special education settings ...

A meta-analysis of school-based social skills interventions for children with autism spectrum disorders

S Bellini, JK Peters, L Benner… - … and Special Education, 2007 - rse.sagepub.com
... Also, schools are equipped with trained profession- als who are qualified to teach social skills,
such as teachers, therapists, and psychologists. ... Classroom 76 28 88 16 67 8 ... Page 8. 160
REMEDIAL AND SPECIAL EDUCATION Volume 28, Number 3, May/June 2007 ...

[PDF] Rethinking learning disabilities

GR Lyon, JM Fletcher, SE Shaywitz… - … education for a new …, 2001 - dss.nrru.ac.th
... that typically takes the responsibility of educating the child away from the classroom teacher.31 ...
be necessary for some children are typically not within the purview of general education teachers. ...
They found that placement in special education was associated with a gain of 0.04 ...

Early education policy alternatives: Comparing quality and outcomes of Head Start and state prekindergarten

GT Henry, CS Gordon… - Educational Evaluation and …, 2006 - epa.sagepub.com
... Collection We collected data on four of the dimensions of children's developmental outcomes
recommended by the National Education Goals Panel ... In addition, we collected data on child and
family characteristics, teaching practices, teacher atti- tudes, and classroom quality. ...

The early education of socioeconomically disadvantaged children

DH Arnold… - Annual Review of Psychology, 2003 - annualreviews.org
... and low-SES children tend to have less access to quality education (Phillips et al. ... consistent across
wide definitions and measures of quality, including physical classroom characteristics and ... Literacy
has been fostered with agents ranging from parents to teachers to librarians to ...

Comparison of academic and cognitive programs for young handicapped children

PS Dale… - Exceptional Children, 1988 - freepatentsonline.com
... less than 10%) of the children ever experienced a time-out period in a separate classroom over
the ... As they become more substantial, teachers face a fundamental dilemma of how to blend more
direct ... Program evaluation in early childhood special education: A meta-evaluation. ...

Structural and process features in three types of child care for children from high and low income families

CJ Dowsett, AC Huston, AE Imes… - Early Childhood Research …, 2008 - Elsevier
... families score somewhat lower on process indicators of quality, including child–teacher
interactions and ... to caregivers was the number of awake children in the classroom/home setting ...
high school; (c) certification, degree in related field, or vocational/ adult education; (d) some ...

Academic environments in preschool: Do they pressure or challenge young children

K Hirsh-Pasek, MC Hyson… - Early Education and …, 1990 - Taylor & Francis
... academic instruction, some of the best known curricula to emerge from the compensatory
education movement were those ... preschools, that varied widely in their teaching philosophy from
more aca- demic, teacher-directed instruction ... 'The EAS, the Classroom Practices Inventory ...

Preschool competency in context: an investigation of the unique contribution of child competencies to early academic success.

CM McWayne, JW Fantuzzo… - Developmental …, 2004 - psycnet.apa.org
... M. McWayne, Department of Applied Psychology, Steinhardt School of Education, New York ... ers
and teacher assistants in late spring, concurrent with the teacher COR observation ... ecological
influences on Head Start children's development: (a) classroom quality information and ...

The underlying message in LD intervention research: Findings from research syntheses

S Vaughn, R Gersten… - Exceptional Children, 2000 - freepatentsonline.com
... The effect of classroom structure on shared perceptions of ability. ... Philadelphia: Journal of Special
Education Press, Grune and Stratton.(*) SHARON VAUGHN (CEC #101), Professor ... Interactive
dialogue between students and teachers or between students and proficient peers is ...

Empowering minority students: A framework for intervention

J Cummins - Harvard Educational Review, 1986 - HEPG
... the classroom. Rueda and Mercer (1985) have also shown that designation of mi ... 8 See Mullard
(1985) for a detailed discussion of delegitimization strategies in antiracist education. ... According
to the dis trict kindergarten teachers, children who had attended these programs often ...

[PDF] Bringing it all together: The multiple origins, skills, and environmental supports of early literacy

DK Dickinson… - Learning Disabilities Research and …, 2001 - cde.state.co.us
... We now have fall and spring data about classroom quality from 30 classrooms that received the ...
assessment data for 152 children, and for 593 children who were rated by teacher. ... the Education
Develop- ment Center, Inc., Harvard Graduate School of Education, Boston College ...

[BOOK] The children of the Cost, Quality, and Outcomes Study go to school

ES Peisner - 2000 - books.google.com
... examination of the costs and quality of early childhood care and education in four ... about the
operating costs, structural characteristics, and process quality of classroom activities and ... child
and family background characteristics and risk status, parental beliefs, teacher beliefs, and ...

BENEFIT‐COST ANALYSIS OF PRESCHOOL EDUCATION: Findings From a 25‐Year Follow‐Up

WS Barnett - American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
... Classroom staff were certified public school teachers, and the staff-child ratio was ... on standardized
tests of cognitive development, academic achieve- ment, and teacher ratings. ... 3) elementary and
secondary education, 4) adult educa- tion, 5) higher education, 6) employment, 7 ...

[PDF] Kindergarten classroom quality, behavioral engagement, and reading achievement

CC Ponitz, SE Rimm-Kaufman… - School Psychology …, 2009 - nasponline.org
... were rated as more engaged than children whose parents had lower education levels (NICHD ...
Behavioral codes were adapted from the NICHD ECCRN Classroom Observation Scale and
described in ... In the spring, teachers rated children's behavioral self-control on a 5-point ...

[BOOK] Handbook of early literacy research

SB Neuman… - 2003 - books.google.com
... His current research interests are preschool and kindergarten classroom practice and the
relationship between spoken language acquisition and ... Her research includes early literacy
development, teacher cognition, and the de- sign of professional education for teachers. ...

[BOOK] Prekindergarteners left behind: Expulsion rates in state prekindergarten systems

WS Gilliam - 2005 - plan4preschool.org
... a different setting deemed to be more appropriate for the child (eg, special education, transitional
classroom ... was convenient for the teacher and did not interfere with her or his classroom duties ...
Teachers were given $10 and a certificate of participation for completing the interview ...

Increasing the academic success of disadvantaged children: An examination of alternative early intervention programs

SM Ross, LJ Smith, J Casey… - American Educational …, 1995 - aer.sagepub.com
... An effort is made to involve every child in the regular classroom, with tutoring assistance as ... out
of special education and remain with their age-mates without any special identification or ...
implemented for the first time in the School S2 building, the staff, teachers, and students had ...

Long-term effects of early childhood programs on cognitive and school outcomes

WS Barnett - The future of children, 1995 - JSTOR
... All but one (Verbal In- teraction Project) provided classroom ser- vices. ... group sizes, pay teachers
much more poorly, and may pro- vide classes only part year.53-54 Classrooms tend to serve
15 to 20 children with a teacher and an ... Education Project18 Twice weekly part-day ...

Professional development in early childhood programs: Process issues and research needs

SM Sheridan, CP Edwards, CA Marvin… - Early education and …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
... Philadelphia: Research for Better Schools. View all references), co-inquiry (Abramson,
20081. Abramson, S. 2008. ... Teachers' education, classroom quality, and young children's
academic skills: Results from seven studies of preschool programs.. ...

Relations between teacher and classroom activity variables and the classroom behaviors of prekindergarten children in Chapter 1 funded programs

MB Bronson, T Tivnan… - Journal of Applied Developmental …, 1995 - Elsevier
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