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Investigating Classroom Quality in a Head Start Context: A Mixed Methods Approach
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Cara L. Kelly – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Quality in early care and education (ECE) has been widely studied across several decades. There is not one standard definition of quality across ECE contexts. However, classroom quality often encompasses both structural features of quality, such as teacher-child ratios and teachers' qualifications, and process features of quality, such as…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Low Income Students, Social Services, Teacher Attitudes
Student-Teacher Relationship Quality for Preschool Students with Disabilities and Delays: An Examination of Student-Teacher Relationship Quality's Moderating Role amongst Head Start Student, Teacher, and Classroom Variables and Kindergarten Reading Outcomes
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Nelson, Sydney Rae-Saidoo – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Student-teacher relationship quality (STRQ) influences a variety of student outcomes, including academic, social, and behavioral functioning (McGrath & Van Bergen, 2015). Less is known about the importance of STRQ for preschool students with disabilities. Many studies are conducted with school-aged, typically developing students (Ansari et…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Students with Disabilities
Examining Classroom Quality in Head Start in Relation to Teachers' and Center Directors' Characteristics: A Multilevel Approach
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Dilara Yaya-Bryson – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Assuring the quality of early childhood education (ECE) settings is a fundamental consideration for supporting young children's learning and development. Head Start programs serve children and families living in poverty, highlighting the need for equitable and high-quality learning opportunities for these vulnerable populations, and the ECE…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, Federal Programs, Social Services, Early Childhood Education
An Equity Perspective on Measurement Invariance and Profiles of Head Start Classroom Quality: Implications for School Readiness, Policy, and Practice
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Brittany Alexander – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Quality in early childhood education (ECE) is central to equitable child development and preparation for formal schooling and has been widely studied by researchers and of interest to policy makers. As the federal pre-k program, Head Start is a key ECE context to understand quality and its implications for equity. One central measure of classroom…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Low Income Students, Federal Programs, Social Services