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Siyan Liu; Bin Tang; Jiayi Shi; Ai Yue; Ling Li – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: This study investigated the sequential mediating effects of parental material investment (MI) and time investment (TI) upon the correlation between family socioeconomic status (SES) and toddlers' development (TD). Data derived from a 2016 data set, including a sample of 1,316 toddlers based in 117 villages across 22 counties…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Socioeconomic Status, Time
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Cadima, Joana; Barros, Sílvia; Bryant, Donna M.; Peixoto, Carla; Coelho, Vera; Pessanha, Manuela – Early Education and Development, 2023
This study examined the extent to which the quality of teacher-infant interactions varies across play and routine care activities. In addition, the effects of the quantity of adult involvement in the quality of teacher-infant interactions were investigated. Participants were teachers and infants from 90 infant classrooms in Portugal. Classrooms…
Descriptors: Interaction, Infants, Teacher Student Relationship, Foreign Countries
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Nguyen, Tutrang; Atkins-Burnett, Sally; Monahan, Shannon; Tarullo, Louisa; Xue, Yange; Cannon, Judy – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: The Quality of Care for Infants and Toddlers (QCIT) observational measure was designed to address the need for a valid and reliable measure of the quality of caregiver-child interactions that could be used in both center-based and family child care (FCC) settings, and with diverse populations. Results from a psychometric field…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Infants, Toddlers, Caregiver Child Relationship
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Dore, Rebecca A.; Purtell, Kelly M.; Chen, Jing; Justice, Laura M. – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: Multiple factors likely influence the language development of young children growing up in low-income homes, potentially including stressors experienced by parents. Here, we ask: (1) What is the association between stress (i.e., economic hardship and parenting stress) and toddlers' language development? and (2) Does number of…
Descriptors: Correlation, Parent Child Relationship, Stress Variables, Child Care
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Crawford, April; Varghese, Cheryl; Oh, Yoonkyung; Guttentag, Cathy; Zucker, Tricia; Landry, Susan; Cummins, Reese-Anna – Early Education and Development, 2022
This pilot study conducted an initial evaluation of the Center for Improving the Readiness of Children for Learning and Education (CIRCLE) Infant-Toddler Teacher Training program. The program is unique in three ways: 1) use of an online platform with courses that explain social-emotional, language, and literacy development in young children…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Infants, Toddlers, Preschool Teachers
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Virmani, Elita Amini; Hatton-Bowers, Holly; Lombardi, Caitlin McPherran; Decker, Kalli B.; King, Elizabeth K.; Plata-Potter, Sandra I.; Vallotton, Claire D. – Early Education and Development, 2020
Although the social-emotional competence of preservice early childhood professionals (ECPs) has been associated with the quality of their interactions with young children, there is limited understanding of these associations during preservice training. Utilizing a sample of students with career goals in early childhood (N=473), we examined the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Early Childhood Teachers, Metacognition, Reflection
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Narea, Marigen; Arriagada, Verónica; Allel, Kasim – Early Education and Development, 2020
There is little evidence regarding the benefits of early center-based care attendance (before three years old) for child development and most studies have focused on developed countries. Addressing this gap, this study examines the relationship between center-based care attendance during toddler years and children's cognitive outcomes. Research…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Care Centers, Comparative Analysis, Family Environment
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Farkas, Chamarrita – Early Education and Development, 2019
This article examines similarities and differences in Chilean teachers' competences, which were organized into profiles, and the associations of these profiles with children's language development. Teacher-child interactions were assessed when the children were 12 (n=99) and 30 months old (n=73), using the Adult Sensitivity Scale, the Evaluation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Competencies, Language Acquisition, Young Children
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Cline, Keely D.; Edwards, Carolyn Pope – Early Education and Development, 2017
Research Findings: The objective of this study was to understand how instructional book-reading style and emotional quality of reading interact and relate to cognitive skills in a sample of at-risk infants and toddlers. Participants were 81 parents and their children participating in Early Head Start programs in the rural Midwest. Correlation and…
Descriptors: Story Reading, Parent Child Relationship, Early Intervention, Preschool Education
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Mortensen, Jennifer A.; Barnett, Melissa A. – Early Education and Development, 2018
Research Findings: This study examined the transactional nature of harsh parenting and emotion regulation across toddlerhood, including the moderating role of teacher sensitivity in child care. Secondary data analyses were conducted with a subsample of families from the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project who participated in…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Parenting Styles, Toddlers, Economically Disadvantaged
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Swartz, Mallary I.; Easterbrooks, M. Ann – Early Education and Development, 2014
Research Findings: This study examined how characteristics of parents, providers, and children contribute to the quality of parent--provider relationships in infant and toddler classrooms. Parents (n = 192) and providers (n = 95) from 14 child care centers in a large metropolitan area participated by completing questionnaires about the nature of…
Descriptors: Parent Role, Infants, Toddlers, Child Care Centers
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Farkas, Chamarrita; Strasser, Katherine; Badilla, María Gabriela; Santelices, María Pía – Early Education and Development, 2017
Parental mentalizing, which is the capacity to understand behavior in terms of mental states and to reflect this back to a child through speech, is a key construct in child development. Adults with high mentalization promote children's secure attachment, mentalization and self-regulation. This study describes this competency in a sample of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Development, Parent Child Relationship, Security (Psychology)
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Vallotton, Claire D.; Torquati, Julia; Ispa, Jean; Chazan-Cohen, Rachel; Henk, Jennifer; Fusaro, Maria; Peterson, Carla A.; Roggman, Lori A.; Stacks, Ann M.; Cook, Gina; Brophy-Herb, Holly – Early Education and Development, 2016
Research Findings: Adults' attitudes about attachment relationships are central to how they perceive and respond to children. However, little is known about how attachment styles are related to teachers' attitudes toward and interactions with infants and toddlers. From a survey of 207 students taking early childhood (EC) courses at 4 U.S.…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, College Students, Predictor Variables, Knowledge Level
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Cozzani, Francesca; Zanobini, Mirella; Usai, Maria Carmen – Early Education and Development, 2016
Research Findings: This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of linguistic training based on the use of the Drežancic method in educational settings. It is hypothesized that characteristics of this method, based on the typical stages of linguistic and cognitive development, could influence both language competence and executive function (EF). A…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Control Groups, Child Care Centers, Experimental Groups
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Ackerman, Debra J. – Early Education and Development, 2008
Practice or Policy: Continuity of care (COC) has many benefits for young children's development but is not the norm in infant/toddler classrooms. As a consequence, policymakers might not realize how such an approach might also benefit the professional development of infant and toddler teachers, particularly if they come to the field with little…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Infants, Child Development Centers, Professional Development
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