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Direct linkVarmuza, Petr; Perlman, Michal; White, Linda A. – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2019
This study examined early childhood education and care (ECEC) utilization in Canada, focusing on use of unlicensed home child care (HCC) from an equity perspective. Data from the 2011 cycle of the General Social Survey (GSS) were used. Across Canada, parent responses reveal that 16.6% of children between the age of 12 months and entry to school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Child Care Centers
Perlman, Michal; Brunsek, Ashley; Hepditch, Anne; Gray, Karen; Falenchuck, Olesya – Early Education and Development, 2017
Research Findings: There is a growing need for accurate and efficient measures of classroom quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings. Observational measures are costly, as their administration generally takes 3-5 hr per classroom. This article outlines the process of development and preliminary concurrent validity testing of…
Descriptors: Child Care, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality, Test Construction
Perlman, Michal; Fletcher, Brooke A. – Early Education and Development, 2012
Research Findings: The amount and quality of communication between staff and guardians in child care centers was examined using extensive naturalistic observations. Interactions between staff and more than 1,000 guardians who dropped their child off at their child care center were captured through a series of 20-s time-sampled observations.…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Child Care Centers, Child Care, Interpersonal Communication
Frampton, Kristen L.; Perlman, Michal; Jenkins, Jennifer M. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2009
Use of metacognitive language by child care center staff in classrooms that serve preschool-aged children was examined. Staff's use of mental-state talk, perspective-taking talk, and activity-relevant questioning with children were coded in a series of 20-s snapshots taken over the course of one full morning per classroom. A total of 3401…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Interaction, Least Squares Statistics, Child Care Centers
Perlman, Michal; Fletcher, Brooke A. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2008
The purpose of this study was to describe literacy instruction in child care centers, examine aspects of child care center quality that may predict such instruction, and provide a limited analysis of whether literacy instruction impacts children's concurrent pre-academic functioning. Staff and children in 103 classrooms serving preschool-age…
Descriptors: Child Care Centers, Literacy, Child Care, Literacy Education
Le, Vi-Nhuan; Perlman, Michal; Zellman, Gail L.; Hamilton, Laura S. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2006
Child-staff ratios are an important quality indicator. They are often collected by observing one randomly selected classroom several times during a 2-h period on a single day. However, it is unclear whether these measures represent the ratios that children actually experience during most of their time in care. This study compared ratio data…
Descriptors: Child Care Centers, Evaluation Methods, Correlation, Observation
