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The Healthy Environment Project: Promoting Sustainable Change in Early Childhood Education Settings
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Farewell, Charlotte V.; Maiurro, Emily; Powers, Jamie; Puma, Jini – Health Education Journal, 2021
Objective: The Healthy Environment Project (HEP) was designed to improve familiarity with attitudes, confidence and knowledge related to health-promoting best practices, as well as the implementation of health-promoting policy, system and environment best practice change in diverse early childhood education settings. Design: Pre-post study design…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Best Practices, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Education
Parent Involvement in Early Intervention: What Role Does Setting Play?
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Kellar-Guenther, Yvonne; Rosenberg, Steven A.; Block, Stephen R.; Robinson, Cordelia C. – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2014
This study compared levels of parent involvement in early intervention services for children under three which were delivered in community settings (children's homes and child care programs) and specialized settings (early intervention centers and provider offices) in the USA. Respondents reported the highest levels of parental involvement in the…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Early Intervention, Young Children, Context Effect
Accounting for Movement between Childcare Classrooms: Does It Change Teacher Effects Interpretations?
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Setodji, Claude Messan; Le, Vi-Nhuan; Schaack, Diana – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2012
Child care studies that have examined links between teachers' qualifications and children's outcomes often ignore teachers' and children's transitions between classrooms at a center throughout the day and only take into account head teacher qualifications. The objective of this investigation was to examine these traditional assumptions and to…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Teacher Qualifications, Receptive Language, Child Care Centers
Examining the Associations between Daily Caregiving Discontinuity and Children's Social-Emotional Outcomes
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Le, Vi-Nhuan; Schaack, Diana; Setodji, Claude Messan – Developmental Psychology, 2015
Many child care centers temporarily move children and teachers in and out of their assigned classrooms throughout the day. Such practices create frequent discontinuity in children's experiences in child care, including discontinuity in their peer and teacher relationships. This study examined the prevalence and patterns of teacher and child…
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Correlation, Child Caregivers, Child Care Centers
Assessing an Infant Feeding Web Site as a Nutrition Education Tool for Child Care Providers
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Clark, Alena; Anderson, Jennifer; Adams, Elizabeth; Baker, Susan; Barrett, Karen – Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2009
Objective: Determine child care providers' infant feeding knowledge, attitude and behavior changes after viewing the infant feeding Web site and determine the effectiveness of the Web site and bilingual educational materials. Design: Intervention and control groups completed an on-line pretest survey, viewed a Web site for 3 months, and completed…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Learning Theories, Control Groups, Cues
Quality Rating Systems--The Experiences of Center Directors
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Friedman, Dana E. – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2007
Quality Rating System (QRS) initiatives define levels of quality based on research and then support providers with funding and technical assistance to increase their quality. Each program is assessed and given a number of "stars" to indicate to parents what level of quality the program has reached. In this article, the author describes…
Descriptors: Administrators, Child Care Centers, Rating Scales, Program Evaluation
Examining the Psychometric Properties of the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale-Revised (ECERS-R)
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Perlman, Michal; Zellman, Gail L.; Le, Vi-Nhuan – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2004
The psychometric properties of the revised Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (ECERS-R) were examined using 202 Colorado child care centers. A factor analysis revealed that the ECERS-R does not measure seven distinct aspects of quality, as asserted by the developers of the ECERS-R, but instead measures one global aspect of quality. This…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Credentials, Child Care Centers, Rating Scales