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Direct linkLeher Singh; Mihaela D. Barokova; Heidi A. Baumgartner; Diana C. Lopera-Perez; Paul Okyere Omane; Mark Sheskin; Francis L. Yuen; Yang Wu; Katherine J. Alcock; Elena C. Altmann; Marina Bazhydai; Alexandra Carstensen; Kin Chung Jacky Chan; Hu Chuan-Peng; Rodrigo Dal Ben; Laura Franchin; Jessica E. Kosie; Casey Lew-Williams; Asana Okocha; Tilman Reinelt; Tobias Schuwerk; Melanie Soderstrom; Angeline S. M. Tsui; Michael C. Frank – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Culture is a key determinant of children's development both in its own right and as a measure of generalizability of developmental phenomena. Studying the role of culture in development requires information about participants' demographic backgrounds. However, both reporting and treatment of demographic data are limited and inconsistent in child…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Young Children, Demography, Cultural Traits
Qiling Wu; Annemarie H. Hindman – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2025
Research indicates that parents' involvement in early literacy, particularly through book reading, matters for young children's language and literacy development. OBJECTIVE: However, little is known about the nature and extent of family book reading across the U.S. nation or about which factors support parents' involvement in book reading. In…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Family Environment, Parents, Reading Habits
Hannah Lantos; Zakia Redd; Jessica Warren; Michael Bradley; Sham Habteselasse – Child Trends, 2024
Out-of-school-time (OST) programs and their funders rely on sound data to make decisions about everything from professional development and student recruitment to the selection of activities to offer students. Programs operate at a range of times (before and after school, weekends, summer) and in a variety of locations (e.g., schools,…
Descriptors: Child Development, Program Effectiveness, Outcome Measures, After School Programs
Johnson, Sara K. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2021
Developmental scientists are often interested in subgroups of people who share commonalities in aspects of development; these subgroups often cannot be captured directly but instead must be inferred from other information. Mixture models can be used in these situations. Two specific types of mixture models, latent profile transition analyses and…
Descriptors: Profiles, Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Models
Catalina Patricia Morales-Murillo; Manuel Pacheco-Molero; Irene León-Estrada; Rosa Fernández-Valero; Mónica Gutiérrez Ortega; R. A. McWilliam – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
This study analyzed the fit of data collected with the Measure of Engagement, Independence, and Social Relationships for 3- to 5-year-olds (MEISR 3-to-5-years-old) to a proposed theoretical model based on the cross-walk of MEISR 3-to-5-years-old items and codes from 7 chapters of the Activities and Participation component of the International…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Intervention, Preschool Children
Hüseyin Kotaman; Asli Balci – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2025
This study aimed to determine which type of information source--providing either mathematical or relative data--children aged 5-11 would prefer. Additionally, the study examined how children justified their choices and whether differences existed in their justifications. A total of 837 children participated in the study. The children watched…
Descriptors: Childrens Attitudes, Epistemology, Trust (Psychology), Decision Making
Carolyn A. Berry; Courtney Abrams; Margaret M. Paul; Rachel E. Massar; Kayla M. Fennelly; Beth C. Weitzman – American Journal of Evaluation, 2025
Qualitative interviews and focus groups are commonly used methods to elicit participants' voices in program evaluations. However, the use of these data-gathering methods can fall short of the goal; even with open-ended questions, the protocols guiding and shaping interviews and focus groups heavily reflect the evaluators' understanding and…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Photography, Visual Aids, Interviews
Clifford, Richard M.; Yazejian, Noreen; Jang, Wonkyung; Jigjidsuren, Dari – Teachers College Press, 2021
Early childhood is a crucial stage in a child's life, and aspects of the environment in the physical, social-emotional, cognitive, and health and safety domains all play important roles in shaping children's development during these early years. Having a valid and reliable measure of the quality of these aspects of children's care settings is…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Data Analysis, Data Interpretation, Educational Quality
Download full textPeter Rankin; Sally Staton; Alicia Jones; Azhar Hussain Potia; Sandy Houen; Bridget Healey; Karen Thorpe – Australian Education Research Organisation Limited, 2024
In 2023, the Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO) and researchers from the Queensland Brain Institute at The University of Queensland partnered to examine how specific aspects of quality relate to learning and development outcomes for children in Australia. This study contributes the first empirical evidence linking quality ratings of…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Child Care Centers
Bridget Healey; Jen Jackson; Sandra Ofei-Ferri; Bryn Lampe – Australian Education Research Organisation Limited, 2022
Australia has made tremendous progress in building a better early childhood education and care (ECEC) system to serve all Australian children and families. Substantial data already exists about ECEC services in Australia, including access, participation and quality. Large-scale data sets are held by governments (state and federal), research…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Foreign Countries, Access to Education
Köngäs, Mirja; Määttä, Kaarina – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2023
Childhood research is increasingly being conducted from different disciplines, and research methods for showing the child's world are also increasing and evolving. This article examines the challenges and opportunities of childhood research in an early childhood education and care (ECEC) environment from an ethnographic approach. The purpose of…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Early Childhood Education, Educational Research, Research Methodology
Emily C. Hanno; Ximena A. Portilla; JoAnn Hsueh – Child Development Perspectives, 2025
In this article, we adopt culturally relevant perspectives on developmental science that acknowledge and value the diversity of backgrounds and experiences of young children and their families to identify opportunities to advance the measurement of early childhood development. We focus on direct child assessments that can drive more equitable…
Descriptors: Young Children, Child Development, Equal Education, Evaluation Methods
Pushparatnam, Adelle; Seiden, Jonathan; Luna-Bazaldua, Diego – World Bank, 2022
A growing understanding of the importance of children's earliest years has led to an increasing desire to measure early childhood development (ECD) outcomes. There are now nearly 150 tools for measuring ECD outcomes internationally, which can make it challenging to choose an appropriate measurement tool for a given measurement effort. This…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Evaluation Methods, Early Childhood Education, Population Groups
Peter Rankin; Sally Staton; Alicia Jones; Azhar Hussain Potia; Sandy Houen; Bridget Healey; Karen Thorpe – Australian Education Research Organisation Limited, 2024
Government investment in early childhood education and care (ECEC) supports children's ongoing development, learning and wellbeing, and delivers the skills and knowledge required for a thriving society and economy. Assessing the efficiency of this investment, as well as methods for ongoing monitoring are important steps in delivering effective…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries
Abbie Raikes – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2024
As countries make continued investments in early childhood care and education (ECCE) systems, data and measurement play a critical role in outlining strengths and areas for improvement. To promote data-driven decision-making across all levels of early childhood systems, measurement must be valid, reliable, and feasible, especially when used at…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Data Use, Decision Making, Child Care
