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Direct linkAngeline S. Lillard; Lee LeBoeuf; Corey Borgman; Elena Martynova; Ann-Marie Faria; Karen Manship – Grantee Submission, 2025
The CLASS-PreK instrument is widely used to evaluate early childhood classrooms, but how classrooms using Montessori, the world's most common alternative education system, fare on CLASS is understudied. Because CLASS focuses largely on teacher-child interactions as the situs of learning, but in Montessori theory, child-environment interactions are…
Descriptors: Montessori Method, Preschool Education, Classroom Environment, Teacher Student Relationship
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
Li Luo; Yuxi Qiu; Shasha Lyu; He Ge; Hao Liu – Early Education and Development, 2024
A growing number of toddlers are attending childcare institutions as part of China's establishment of its infant-toddler childcare service system. However, there is limited empirical evidence available regarding the quality of these childcare services. The purpose of this study is to investigate the quality of teacher - child interactions in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Student Relationship, Interaction, Toddlers
Kohl, Katharina; Bihler, Lilly-Marlen; Willard, Jessica A.; Agache, Alexandru; Leyendecker, Birgit – Early Education and Development, 2020
This study examined how quantity and quality of early childhood education and care (ECEC) are related to the socio-emotional adjustment of children born in Germany (30-48 months old, N = 395). Previous research focused on a small set of ECEC features, used broad measures, and yielded inconclusive results. We assessed ECEC quantity (age at entry,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Early Childhood Education, Social Development
Wyslowska, Olga; Slot, Pauline L. – Early Education and Development, 2020
This cross-national study involved 56 toddler classrooms in Poland and the Netherlands. A cluster analysis was conducted to identify classroom profiles based on observed quality and these were compared regarding structural (group size and children-to-teacher ratio) and curriculum (e.g. pre-academics and pretend play) characteristics. In total, 224…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality, Child Care, Comparative Education
Download full textStipek, Deborah – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2020
The use of the Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) to improve early childhood education program quality is based in part on assumptions that the quality of programs can be measured and that quality ratings are associated with meaningful differences in learning outcomes for children. This report reviews all of the state QRIS validation…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Educational Improvement, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality
Daniel A. Camacho; Stephanie A. Moore; Elise T. Pas; Catherine P. Bradshaw – Grantee Submission, 2022
High quality teacher-student interactions are critical for the healthy social-emotional, behavioral, and academic development of middle school students. However, few studies have explored patterns of teacher-student interactions in middle school classrooms or the relation between teacher-, classroom-, and school-level factors and patterns of…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Middle School Students, Teacher Student Relationship, Interaction
Kohl, Katharina; Willard, Jessica A.; Agache, Alexandru; Bihler, Lilly-Marlen; Leyendecker, Birgit – AERA Open, 2019
We examined independent and interactive links among three central characteristics of children's experiences in early childhood education and care and the German receptive vocabulary of single language learners and dual language learners (DLLs). We allowed for possible differential effects depending on children's language background. Our sample…
Descriptors: German, Vocabulary Development, Early Childhood Education, Child Care
