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Mangione, Peter L.; Kriener-Althen, Kerry; Marcella, Jennifer – Early Education and Development, 2016
Research Findings: The quality of group care infants and toddlers experience relates to their concurrent and later development. Recent quality improvement initiatives point to the need for ecologically valid measures that assess the multifaceted nature of child care quality. In this article, we present the psychometric properties of an infant and…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Child Care, Psychometrics
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McAloney-Kocaman, Kareena; McPherson, Kerri – Early Education and Development, 2017
Research Findings: Despite it being a widely accepted measure of social, emotional, and behavioral problems among children and young people, the factor structure underlying the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is contested. Recent research has suggested a need to consider methodological bias in the SDQ, associated with the positive…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Preschool Children, Reliability, Foreign Countries
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Hu, Bi Ying; Fan, Xitao; Gu, Chuanhua; Yang, Ning – Early Education and Development, 2016
Research Findings: This study examined the applicability of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) Pre-K (Pianta, La Paro, & Hamre, 2008) and its underpinning framework of teaching through interactions in typical Chinese kindergarten classrooms. A sample of 180 kindergarten classrooms in China was selected, and the CLASS was used to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rating Scales, Kindergarten, Teacher Student Relationship
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Dunstan, Debra A.; Anderson, Donnah L.; Marks, Anthony D. G. – Early Education and Development, 2015
Research Findings: Emotional and social competence are critical to a child's current and future well-being. A. D. Paterson et al. (2012) studied a sample of mothers and proposed that an adult's approach to the socialization of a child's emotions can be summarized in his or her parenting style as measured by the Emotion-Related Parenting Styles…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Socialization, Emotional Development, Gender Differences
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Charles McCoy, Dana L.; Raver, C. Cybele; Lowenstein, Amy E.; Tirado-Strayer, Nicole – Early Education and Development, 2011
Research Findings: At present, few resources are available to researchers, teachers, and practitioners who wish to quickly and reliably assess children's self-regulation within the classroom context, and particularly within settings serving low-income and ethnic minority children. This paper explores the psychometric properties of a teacher-report…
Descriptors: Self Control, Validity, Factor Structure, Reliability
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Rodriguez, Barbara L.; Hammer, Carol Scheffner; Lawrence, Frank R. – Early Education and Development, 2009
Research Findings: The purpose of the current study was to (a) evaluate the internal consistency of the 7 scales of the Parent Reading Belief Inventory (PRBI), (b) assess the factor structure, and (c) examine concurrent validity in a sample of Mexican American mothers from low-income homes. Two hundred and seventy-four mothers of preschool…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Mothers, Mexican Americans, Validity