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Lee, Katelyn; Therriault, Susan – College and Career Readiness and Success Center, 2016
This brief examines strategies for leveraging State longitudinal data systems (SLDS) to promote college and career readiness (CCR) goals. The examples provided are based on current state efforts to use their state longitudinal data systems to achieve their CCR vision and goals. The following information outlines the basic purpose and elements of…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Career Readiness, College Readiness, Elementary Secondary Education
Ottley, Jennifer Riggie; Ferron, John M.; Hanline, Mary Frances – Grantee Submission, 2016
The purpose of this study was to explain the variability in data collected from a single-case design study and to identify predictors of communicative outcomes for children with developmental delays or disabilities (n = 4). Using SASĀ® University Edition, we fit multilevel models with time nested within children. Children's level of baseline…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Research Design, Predictor Variables
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Williford, Amanda P.; Carter, Lauren M.; Maier, Michelle F.; Hamre, Bridget K.; Cash, Anne; Pianta, Robert C.; Downer, Jason T. – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2017
This study built on prior research regarding the effectiveness of the National Center for Research in Early Childhood Education (NCRECE) course by exploring the individual course components. Core aspects of course engagement and performance were described and examined in relation to improvements in the observed quality of teacher-child…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Course Content, Teacher Characteristics, Teacher Student Relationship
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McNally, Sinead; Share, Michelle; Murray, Aisling – Child Care in Practice, 2014
Anecdotal evidence suggests that grandparents provide a substantial amount of childcare support to parents of infants in Ireland yet there has been little attention to the provision of grandparent childcare at policy level. Using nationally representative data on childcare provision in the Republic of Ireland, this study examined the prevalence of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Predictor Variables, Grandparents Raising Grandchildren, Child Care
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Mendive, Susana; Weiland, Christina; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu; Snow, Catherine – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2016
"Un Buen Comienzo" [A Good Start] was a professional development program implemented with prekindergarten and kindergarten teachers in Chilean public schools serving low-income families. In a randomized trial, the program showed moderate to large impacts on classroom quality but no impacts on targeted child outcomes. To unpack these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Professional Development, Kindergarten
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Waller, Rebecca; Gardner, Frances; Dishion, Thomas J.; Shaw, Daniel S.; Wilson, Melvin N. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2012
The current study investigated psychometric properties of the Family Affective Attitude Rating Scale (FAARS) for assessing parents' thoughts and feelings about their child, coded from a 5-min speech sample. Parental affective attitudes derive from previous experiences of parenting and child behavior, representations of the parent-child…
Descriptors: Mothers, Validity, Child Rearing, Child Behavior
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Curran, Patrick J.; Obeidat, Khawla; Losardo, Diane – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2010
Longitudinal data analysis has long played a significant role in empirical research within the developmental sciences. The past decade has given rise to a host of new and exciting analytic methods for studying between-person differences in within-person change. These methods are broadly organized under the term "growth curve models." The…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Developmental Psychology, Sciences, Longitudinal Studies