Measuring early care and education quality

M Burchinal - Child Development Perspectives, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
High‐quality early care and education (ECE) programs are thought to increase opportunities
for all children to succeed in school, but recent findings call into question whether these …

The relationship between teacher qualification and the quality of the early childhood education and care environment

M Manning, S Garvis, C Fleming… - Campbell Systematic …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This Campbell systematic review examines the current empirical evidence on the correlation
between teacher qualifications and the quality of the early childhood learning environments …

Investing in our future: The evidence base on preschool education.

H Yoshikawa, C Weiland, J Brooks-Gunn… - Society for Research in …, 2013 - ERIC
The expansion of publicly-funded preschool education is currently the focus of a prominent
debate. At present, 42% of 4-year-olds attend publicly funded preschool (28% attend public …

Teaching through interactions: Testing a developmental framework of teacher effectiveness in over 4,000 classrooms

BK Hamre, RC Pianta, JT Downer… - The elementary …, 2013 - journals.uchicago.edu
Validating frameworks for understanding classroom processes that contribute to student
learning and development is important to advance the scientific study of teaching. This …

Quality in early education classrooms: Definitions, gaps, and systems

R Pianta, J Downer, B Hamre - The future of children, 2016 - JSTOR
Parents, professionals, and policymakers agree that quality is crucial for early education. But
precise, consistent, and valid definitions of quality have been elusive. In this article, Robert …

Early childhood teachers' well-being, mindfulness, and self-compassion in relation to classroom quality and attitudes towards challenging students

PA Jennings - Mindfulness, 2015 - Springer
Early childhood teachers are instrumental in creating socially and emotionally supportive
learning environments for young children. However, there is a paucity of research examining …

Workplace stress and the quality of teacher–children relationships in Head Start

RC Whitaker, T Dearth-Wesley, RA Gooze - Early Childhood Research …, 2015 - Elsevier
The quality of the relationships between teachers and young children affects children's
social and emotional development and their academic success. Little is known, however …

Home and preschool learning environments and their relations to the development of early numeracy skills

Y Anders, HG Rossbach, S Weinert, S Ebert… - Early childhood …, 2012 - Elsevier
This study examined the influence of the quality of home and preschool learning
environments on the development of early numeracy skills in Germany, drawing on a …

A course on effective teacher-child interactions: Effects on teacher beliefs, knowledge, and observed practice

BK Hamre, RC Pianta, M Burchinal… - American …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Among 440 early childhood teachers, half were randomly assigned to take a 14-week
course on effective teacher-child interactions. This course used the Classroom Assessment …

[HTML][HTML] Associations between structural quality aspects and process quality in Dutch early childhood education and care settings

PL Slot, PPM Leseman, J Verhagen… - Early Childhood Research …, 2015 - Elsevier
The relationship between structural quality and process quality in early childhood education
and care (ECEC) has been addressed in several studies. However, the findings are not …