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Title: "I can, but I can't": Kindergarten teacher perceptions of self-efficacy and agency in their use of formative assessment in the current high-stakes accountability climate
Author: Ferrara, Angela
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, Education and state, Ethnology
Description: Early childhood formative assessment (FA) is a process by which teachers gather data about their students’ knowledge and skills across the five domains of early childhood development in order to scaffold and support their students’ unique learning...

Title: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE TORQUE CAPABILITIES OF HIGH GEAR RATIO MAGNETIC GEARBOXES
Author: Li, Kang
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Early childhood education, Electromagnetism
Description: Mechanical gears can be as small as those in traditional mechanical watches or as large as those in mechanical marine turbines. They can be seen in almost all transportation tools, for example, bicycles, cars, trains and airplanes. Though they hav...

Title: Assessing the Predictive Sensitivity of Early Childhood Screening Variables to Improve Pre-K Eligibility Decisions
Author: Gadaire, Andrew
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, Developmental psychology
Description: High-quality early childhood education, such as pre-kindergarten (pre-k) can help children develop the academic and social-emotional skills they need to succeed in school. Pre-k can be especially important for students at risk of starting elementa...

Title: Coaching in Early Intervention: Practitioners' Perceptions of the Training and Implementation Process
Author: Faryadi, Lisa
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Early childhood education
Description: Recommended and best practices support the use of coaching strategies in promoting child and family outcomes in Early Intervention (EI) programs. However, practitioners have found it challenging to shift to a coaching approach with families, and t...

Title: EARLY INTERVENTION PROVIDERS’ EXPERIENCES AND PERCEPTIONS OF NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS
Author: Stimpson, Katherine
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Early childhood education
Description: The term natural environment has been a key component in the implementation of Part C early intervention, formerly known as Part H, since its inception in 1986; however, as Part C was reauthorized in 1997 and again in 2004, a clear definition of n...

Title: EFFECTS OF A PARENT IMPLEMENTED DIALOGIC PLAY STRATEGY ON EARLY LITERACY DEVELOPMENT OF LATINO PRESCHOOLERS AT RISK FOR LANGUAGE DELAYS
Author: Swart, Katherine
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Early childhood education
Description: A multiple probe across participants design was used to examine the effects of a parent implemented dialogic play strategy on early literacy development of Latino preschoolers at risk for language delays. Three preschool aged Latino children consi...

Title: ESTABLISHING CONNECTIONS WITH MINDFUL INTERACTIONS: IMPACT OF PARENT EDUCATION ON PERCEPTIONS OF SELF-AWARENESS AND MINDFUL PARENTING PRACTICES
Author: Barrett, Amanda
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Early childhood education
Description: ABSTRACTAMANDA LOUISE BARRETT. Establishing connections with mindful interactions: Impact of parent education on perceptions of self-awareness and mindful parenting practices. (Under direction of DR. CYNTHIA BAUGHAN) This study examined the impact...

Title: Equipping parents to support their children’s education: The effects of Charlotte Bilingual Preschool’s Family Program
Author: Gadaire, Andrew
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, Psychology
Description: Charlotte Bilingual Preschool’s Family Program aims to equip parents to support their children’s education at home and at school by increasing parents’ educational engagement, promoting parenting best practices, developing families’ social capital...

Title: Evaluation of the effects of creative curriculum on classroom quality and child outcomes in Head Start
Author: Lambert, Richard, O’Donnell, Megan, Abbott-Shim, Martha
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, Education--Curricula
Description: Classroom quality and child outcomes were measured in Head Start classrooms across two separate sites in the southeastern United States. The classrooms were randomly assigned to treatment and control conditions. The treatment teachers received tra...

Title: Factors Related to the Use of Play Therapy Among Elementary School Counselors
Author: Van Horne, Jill
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology, Early childhood education, Mental health
Description: The purpose of this study was to examine variables that are related to elementary school counselors' use of play therapy in the elementary school setting. The specific variables explored were age, years of experience, workshop hours, graduate cour...

Title: Fathers' Perspectives on their Level of Involvement in Their Child's Early Autism Services
Author: Gooden, Chelsea
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Early childhood education
Description: The aim of this exploratory study was to examine father’s perspectives on their level of involvement in early autism services, as well as their feelings regarding how well the service providers are doing to include them in these services. A total ...

Title: Hall House evaluation study final project
Author: Lambert, Richard, Britt, Heather
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, Temporary housing
Description: Hall House, a Charlotte Housing Authority property, was established to provide safe, transitional housing for 100 families of homeless children in Charlotte, NC from December 16, 2008 to June 30, 2009 at 426 N. Tryon St. Hall House was a collabora...

Title: IMPACT OF SOCIAL EMOTIONAL EARLY LEARNING CURRICULUM ON PRESCHOOLERS’ EMPATHY SKILLS
Author: Johnson, Sarah
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Education, Early childhood education
Description: The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of a social emotional learning program on preschoolers’ empathy skills. Specifically, the study examined the effect of the Second Step Social-Emotional Skills for Early Learning empathy unit on p...

Title: INVESTIGATION OF CONTENT-BASED TRAINING AND PRACTICE-BASED COACHING WITH TEACHERS OF LATINO PRESCHOOLERS WHO ARE DUAL LANGUAGE LEARNERS AT RISK FOR LANGUAGE DELAYS
Author: Godfrey-Hurrell, Jessica
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Early childhood education
Description: A multiple probe across teacher participants design was used to examine the effects of a professional development intervention that included content-based training and practice-based coaching on teacher implementation of interactive reading proced...

Title: Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Families of Young Exceptional Children
Author: Haines, Sarah
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Early childhood education
Description: Families of young exceptional children (young children with identified delays or disabilities) have different life experiences, characteristics, and stressors than families of typically developing children. This makes the study of these families, ...

Title: PKKTPAI teacher evaluation system (PreK-K Teachers' Performance Appraisal Instrument) evaluator's guide
Author: Lambert, Richard, Rowland, Bobbie, Bird, Jim, Ullrich, Annette
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, Teachers--Rating of
Description: The purpose of the PKKTPAI Evaluator’s Guide is to inform those involved in the teacher evaluation process, which is carried out through the North Carolina (NC) Office of School Readiness, Teacher Licensure Unit (OSR/TLU) . It contains step-by-ste...

Title: Parent preferences on disability language regarding their preschool-aged child with special needs
Author: Alpaugh, Lindsay
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Early childhood education
Description: The purpose of the study was to examine the disability language preference of parents with a child with special needs who is between the ages of three and five. Specific research questions included: What form of disability language do parents choo...

Title: Preschool Pedagogy and Its Impact on Preschoolers' Attitudes Toward Learning
Author: Lounsbury, Karen
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, Education
Description: This qualitative study examined two preschool pedagogical approaches and the impact each had on students' attitudes toward learning. One preschool used A Beka curriculum, which is a direct instruction pedagogy. The other preschool used Creative Cu...

Title: QUALITY ASSURANCE AND RELIABILITY OF THE NORTH CAROLINA TEACHER EVALUATION PROCESS FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS
Author: Taylor, Heather
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, Teachers--Training of
Description: The North Carolina (NC) Teacher Evaluation Process (TEP) is used to evaluate Pre-K – 12th grade teachers. Early Childhood Educators (ECEs) who have obtained Birth - Kindergarten licensure are unique in that they work with children with and without...

Title: Resource manual for administrators and principals supervising and evaluating teachers of young children
Author: Lambert, Richard, Rowland, Bobbie, Taylor, Heather, Wheeler, Cindy
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, Teachers--Rating of
Description: This Manual is a practical guide especially created for early childhood principals, administrators, teachers, and others who are directly involved in providing high-quality preschool and kindergarten programs for young children in both public and ...