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Accountability for after-school care: Devising standards and measuring adherence to them
Beckett, Megan, 2001
Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corporation.
A report evaluating school-based after-school programs administered by Stone Soup Child Care Programs, using a methodology and instruments developed from a review of good after-school program practices
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Alternative methods for Minnesota's market rate study of child care prices
Davis, Elizabeth E., January 2009
(DHS-5540-ENG). Saint Paul: Minnesota, Department of Human Services.
A proposal of changes to the design and data collection methods used in market rate studies of child care prices conducted by Minnesota, including a discussion on the treatment of geographic locations, price modes and conversions, school-aged care, and non-standard hour care
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Alternative methods for Minnesota’s market rate study of child care prices [Executive summary]
Davis, Elizabeth E., January 2009
(DHS-5540-ENG). Saint Paul: Minnesota, Department of Human Services.
A summary of a proposal of changes to the design and data collection methods used in market rate studies of child care prices conducted by Minnesota, including a discussion on the treatment of geographic locations, price modes and conversions, school-aged care, and non-standard hour care
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Alternative methods for Minnesota's market rate study of child care prices: Technical appendices
Davis, Elizabeth E., January 2009
(DHS-5540a-ENG). Saint Paul: Minnesota, Department of Human Services.
An appendix to a proposal of changes to the design and data collection methods used in market rate studies of child care prices conducted by Minnesota, including a discussion on the treatment of geographic locations, price modes and conversions, school-aged care, and non-standard hour care
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Assessing the local need for family and child care services: A small area utilization analysis
Percy, Andrew, 2000
Child Welfare, 79(5), 535-553
A study to identify a set of needs indicators to guide resource allocation of family and child care services, by examining the relationship between the costs of services and socioeconomic characteristics in 498 small areas in Northern Ireland
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Assessing the quality of early years learning environments
Walsh, Glenda, 2005
Early Childhood Research & Practice, 7(1),
A study on the design and validation of instruments used to measure aspects of high quality in early child learning environments in Northern Irish primary schools and Danish kindergartens
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Assessing social competence in early childhood
Atkins-Burnett, Sally, 1997
In B. Spodek & O.N. Saracho (Eds.), Issues in early childhood educational assessment and evaluation (Vol. 7, pp. 149-178). New York: Teachers College Press
A discussion of the definition of social competence and its importance for young children, and a summary of the various instruments use to measure social competence throughout early childhood years
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Assessment of preschool classroom practices: Application of Q-sort methodology
Bracken, Stacey Storch, Q4 2006
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 21(4), 417-430
An evaluation of the Preschool Classroom Practices Q-Sort, a measure designed to assess the relation between preschool educator's beliefs and practices and the effectiveness of their classroom practices
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Attachment behavior of day-care children: Naturalistic and laboratory observations
Ragozin, Arlene S., 1980
Child Development, 51(2), 409-415
A study of the relationships between child care and attachment behavior through naturalistic and laboratory observations
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A birth cohort study: Conceptual design considerations and rationale
Moore, Kristin A., January 1999
(Working Paper No. 1999-01). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.
A discussion of issues related to the conceptualization and design of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort
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Bringing it together: Merging community-based, life-course, linked data, and social indicator approaches to monitoring child development: Proceedings from the Early Childhood Learning Knowledge Centre’s Monitoring Committee Workshop
Early Childhood Learning Knowledge Centre, February 2008
Ottawa, Ontario: Canadian Council on Learning.
A discussion of Canada’s need for more comprehensive data on early childhood development, and a proposal of four data collection methods to address this need
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Building an educative community for early childhood development
Rudolph, Norma, 1996
International Journal of Early Years Education, 4(3), 61-71
A report on a pilot project to implement action research in a South African early care and education setting
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Building futures: The Head Start impact study: Research design plan
Puma, Michael, 2001
Washington, DC: Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.
A report describing the sampling, data collection, and analytical techniques to be used in the Head Start impact evaluation.
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''Catch the future'': Literacy and numeracy pathways for young children: Voices from the field
Kennedy, Anne, 2005
Journal of Australian Research in Early Childhood Education, 12(1), 43-57
A description of two qualitative methodologies adopted for a research project in Australia examining literacy and numeracy pathways for young children’s learning in the year before school entry
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The Chicago Program Evaluation Project: C-PEP: What is C-PEP?: An independent evaluation of early childhood education conducted by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. with funding support from McCormick Foundation
Herr Research Center, [n.d.]
Chicago: Herr Research Center.
An overview of the methodology used to conduct a study of four-year-old children and their experiences in early childhood education programs in Chicago in the 2006-2007 school year
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Fact Sheets & Briefs
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Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP): Improper payments data collection pilot project
United States. Food and Nutrition Service. Office of Research and Analysis, September 2009
Alexandria, VA: U.S. Food and Nutrition Service, Office of Research and Analysis.
A comparison of the quality and costs of four methods for estimating the true number of meals served by family child care homes participating in the Child and Adult Care Food Program in order to reduce improper payments to providers for submitting erroneous meal counts
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Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP): Improper payments data collection pilot project [Executive summary]
United States. Food and Nutrition Service. Office of Research and Analysis, September 2009
Alexandria, VA: U.S. Food and Nutrition Service, Office of Research and Analysis.
A summary of a comparison of the quality and costs of four methods for estimating the true number of meals served by family child care homes participating in the Child and Adult Care Food Program in order to reduce improper payments to providers for submitting erroneous meal counts
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Executive Summary
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Child care and child development: The NICHD Study of Early Child Care
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 1994
In Developmental follow-up: Concepts, domains and methods. (pp. 377-396). San Diego, CA: Academic Press, Inc.
A description of the theoretical framework for the National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care, assessing relationships among family life, child care processes and child behavioral development
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Child care and child health: Use of population surveys
Cain, Virginia S., December 1994
Pediatrics, 94(6), 1096-1098
A discussion of the use of a population-based sample survey approach to the study of the health of children in child care
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Child care and the family: An opportunity to study development in context
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 1996
Newsletter of the Society for Research in Child Development, 4-7
An overview of the Study of Early Child Care by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
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Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth: A unique research opportunity
Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay, 1991
Developmental Psychology, 27(6), 918-931
A description of the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) data set and its importance and relevance to future studies in multiple disciplines
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Children's perspectives on their learning: Exploring methods
Smith, Anne B., 2005
Early Child Development and Care, 175(6), 473-487
A discussion of conversational contexts and methods used to study 4 year old children’s interpretations of their school activities and learning experiences, in a sample of 27 children attending 5 early childhood centers
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Comparison between two common methods for reporting cold and diarrhoea symptoms for children in daycare centre research
Carabin, Helene, 2000
Child: Care, Health and Development, 26(6), 471-487
A study comparing the rate that Canadian child care center staff reported toddlers' cold and diarrhea symptoms to the rate of parent reports
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Conducting market rate surveys: How does your state rate?
USA Child Care, 2000
Lee's Summit, MO: USA Child Care.
A report on issues in the design and implementation of market rate surveys that may affect survey results
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Conducting research with young children: Some ethical considerations
Flewitt, Rosie, 2005
Early Child Development and Care, 175(6), 553-565
A discussion of experiences conducting ethnographic video case studies with young children, including the processes of negotiating initial and ongoing consent, problems with the notion of informed consent in exploratory research with young children, and questions of anonymity when collecting and reporting on visual data
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