Measuring success: Within and cross-domain predictors of academic and social trajectories in elementary school

A Pace, R Alper, MR Burchinal, RM Golinkoff… - Early Childhood …, 2019 - Elsevier
Children's skill levels in language, mathematics, literacy, self-regulation, and social–
emotional adjustment at kindergarten entry are believed to play an important role in …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of the Tennessee Prekindergarten Program on children's achievement and behavior through third grade

MW Lipsey, DC Farran, K Durkin - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2018 - Elsevier
This report presents results of a randomized trial of a state prekindergarten program. Low-
income children (N= 2990) applying to oversubscribed programs were randomly assigned to …

Children's school readiness skills across the pre-K year: Associations with teacher-student interactions, teacher practices, and exposure to academic content

RC Pianta, JE Whittaker, V Vitiello, E Ruzek… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - Elsevier
The present study reports associations between features of directly observed classroom
processes and school readiness skills across the academic year for 1498 children enrolled …

Boosting school readiness: Should preschool teachers target skills or the whole child?

JM Jenkins, GJ Duncan, A Auger, M Bitler… - Economics of Education …, 2018 - Elsevier
We use experimental data to estimate impacts on school readiness of different kinds of
preschool curricula–a largely neglected preschool input and measure of preschool quality …

Childcare quality and child development

MC Araujo, M Dormal, N Schady - Journal of Human Resources, 2019 - jhr.uwpress.org
Development in early childhood predicts schooling and labor market outcomes in adulthood.
Many young children are in some form of nonparental childcare, but the quality of this care …

Activity settings in toddler classrooms and quality of group and individual interactions

C Guedes, J Cadima, T Aguiar, C Aguiar… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study examined the variation of interaction quality both at the group and child levels
across different activity settings in toddler classrooms. Participants were 104 children, with …

Center-based early care and education and children's school readiness: Do impacts vary by neighborhood poverty?

TW Morrissey, K Vinopal - Developmental Psychology, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Neighborhoods provide resources that may affect children's achievement or moderate the
influences of other developmental contexts, such as early care and education (ECE). Using …

Classroom age composition and preschoolers' school readiness: The implications of classroom quality and teacher qualifications

KM Purtell, A Ansari - Aera Open, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent research has shown that the age composition of preschool classrooms influences
children's early learning. Building on prior research, this study examines whether the …

Preschoolers' problem behavior, prosocial behavior, and language ability in a Latin-American context: The roles of child executive functions and socialization …

RT Lohndorf, HJ Vermeer, RA Cárcamo… - Early Childhood …, 2019 - Elsevier
Child executive functions and socialization environments are crucial for the socioemotional
and cognitive development of preschoolers. This study examined the role of socioeconomic …

Are observed classroom practices related to student language/literacy achievement?

Y Cao, YS Grace Kim, M Cho - Review of Educational …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
In this study, we examined the relation of observed classroom practices to language and
literacy achievement and the moderation of this relation for students from pre-K to sixth …