The earliest American laboratory schools, frequently referred to as child development laboratories (CDLs), started to appear in the late 1800s, and were initially sites that reflected best practices in public schools.
The earliest American laboratory schools, frequently referred to as child development laboratories (CDLs), started to appear in the late 1800s, and were initially sites that reflected best practices in public schools.
The Journal of Early Childhood Research provides a major international forum for the dissemination of early childhood research, crossing disciplinary boundaries and applying theory and research within a multiprofessional community.
The International Journal of Early Childhood is one of the oldest scientific journals in the field of Early Childhood Education, with a history of thirty-seven years.
The IEA Preprimary Project is an unprecedented multinational study of preprimary care and education sponsored by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA).
The High/Scope Perry Preschool Study is regarded as one of the pioneering studies of the long-term effects of high-quality preschool programs for young children living in poverty.
High/Scope Educational Research Foundation is an independent nonprofit organization that was founded by David P. Weikart in 1970 in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
The European Early Childhood Education Research Journal (EECERJ) is the journal of the European Early Childhood Education Research Association (EECERA).
Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development is published by Routledge on behalf of Training, Advancement and Co-operation in Teaching Young Children (TACTYC).
Early Childhood Research Quarterly (ECRQ) is sponsored by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).
Early Childhood Research & Practice (ECRP), the first Internet-only, peerreviewed, open-access journal in early childhood education, addresses issues related to the development, care, and education of children from birth to approximately eight years of age.
Among the most frequently utilized environment rating scales (ERS) in the United States are four developed by Thelma Harms, Richard M. Clifford, and Debby Cryer at the FPG Child Development Institute of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Early Child Development and Care is a multidisciplinary publication that serves psychologists, educators, psychiatrists, paediatricians, social workers and other professionals who deal with research, planning, education and care of infants and young children.
To “document” is “to support (an assertion or a claim, for example) with evidence or decisive information” (American Heritage Dictionary, 1994).
The child study movement, inspired by Darwin’s theory of evolution, began in the United States in the early 1880s.
Child Care and Early Education Research Connections is a comprehensive resource for researchers and policymakers to promote high-quality research and inform policy on early care and education.
Action research is generally understood as a type of applied research in which the researcher is actively involved in the setting that is the focus of inquiry as well as in the research itself.