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Do Early Care and Education Programs Improve When Enrolled in Quality Rating and Improvement Systems? Longitudinal Evidence from One System
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Gomez, Celia J.; Whitaker, Anamarie A.; Cannon, Jill S. – Early Education and Development, 2023
Quality rating and improvement systems (QRISs) are designed to assess, improve, and communicate the quality of early care and education programs. Using administrative data, we investigated whether providers that participated in a county-level QRIS saw increases to their global quality (tier) rating, domain-specific quality ratings, and scores on…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality
Kindergarten Teacher Buy-In for Standards-Based Reforms: A Dynamic Interplay between Professional Identity and Perceptions of Control
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Briggs, Jennifer O.; Russell, Jennifer Lin; Wanless, Shannon B. – Early Education and Development, 2018
Political and societal pressures are influencing kindergarten teachers and their classroom practices on a national level. Teachers' receptivity to reforms depends to a large degree on their buy-in to the change effort. Drawing on analyses of interviews with kindergarten teachers across school and districts, this study examined teacher buy-in to an…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Classroom Techniques, Educational Change
The Preschool Instructional Context and Child-Teacher Relationships
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Howes, Carollee; Fuligni, Allison Sidle; Hong, Sandra Soliday; Huang, Yiching D.; Lara-Cinisomo, Sandraluz – Early Education and Development, 2013
Research Findings: The purpose of this article is to examine how dimensions of the preschool instructional context predict child-teacher relationship quality. A total of 118 low-income, predominantly Latino/a children and their teachers participated in this study. Children were observed in their 1st preschool classroom. Measures of instructional…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Preschool Education, Low Income Groups, Classroom Observation Techniques