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Foundation for Child Development, 2021
In 2020, the Foundation for Child Development released "Getting it Right: Using Implementation Research to Improve Outcomes in Early Care and Education." The publication provides insights into the value of including implementation research in the study of early care and education (ECE) and its potential to improve programs and policies…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Program Implementation
Foundation for Child Development, 2020
As the number of publicly funded early childhood education (ECE) programs increases, policymakers will need empirical evidence to justify the taxpayer investment. Such justification will require a stronger understanding of the essential components of an ECE program's design, as well as solid evidence on which components, or constellations of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Research Utilization, Outcomes of Education, Educational Research
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Dorner, Lisa M.; Kim, Sujin; Floros, Alice; Mujanovic, Midheta – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2017
Skills developed through qualitative research and community partnerships can be essential for developing education students' cultural competency and understandings about diverse student populations. Toward this end, we developed a qualitative "service-research" project in a teacher education course focused on child development, whereby…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Interpersonal Competence, Competency Based Teacher Education, Undergraduate Students
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Muttiah, Nimisha; Georges, Katie; Brackenbury, Tim – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2011
Purpose: Evidence-based practice (EBP) involves the incorporation of research evidence, clinical expertise, and client values in clinical decision making. One case in which these factors conflict is the use of nonspeech oral motor treatments (NSOMTs) for children with developmental speech sound disorders. Critical reviews of the research evidence…
Descriptors: Research Design, Phonology, Research Methodology, Decision Making
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Ireland, Lorraine; Holloway, Immy – Children & Society, 1996
Uses a study about children's experience of asthma to show that qualitative research with children has inherent difficulties relating to access and ethical and developmental issues. Asserts that because of children's stage of development and the asymmetrical relationship between researcher and informants, adequate safeguards and awareness of these…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Asthma, Child Development, Child Health
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Bankauskiene, Nijole; Staskeviciene, Vilma – European Educational Research Journal, 2005
The authors discuss the problems of children's foster care in Lithuania in the context of European dimensions. The article consists of two parts. The first part presents the main changes in the children's care system in Lithuania. The first part reveals the discussion of the paradigm of children's foster care in both the Western and Lithuanian…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Foreign Countries, Foster Care, Child Welfare