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Direct linkMashburn, Andrew J.; Pianta, Robert C.; Hamre, Bridget K.; Downer, Jason T.; Barbarin, Oscar A.; Bryant, Donna; Burchinal, Margaret; Early, Diane M.; Howes, Carollee – Child Development, 2008
This study examined development of academic, language, and social skills among 4-year-olds in publicly supported prekindergarten (pre-K) programs in relation to 3 methods of measuring pre-K quality, which are as follows: (a) adherence to 9 standards of quality related to program infrastructure and design, (b) observations of the overall quality of…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Skill Development, Language Skills
Howes, Carollee; Burchinal, Margaret; Pianta, Robert; Bryant, Donna; Early, Diane; Clifford, Richard; Barbarin, Oscar – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2008
We examined children's growth in school-related learning and social skills over the pre-Kindergarten (pre-K) year in state-funded programs designed to prepare children for kindergarten. We expected that children's gains in academic and social skills could be attributed to variations in the structural and classroom process dimensions of program…
Descriptors: Learning Readiness, Preschool Education, Teacher Qualifications, Kindergarten
Burchinal, Margaret; Howes, Carollee; Pianta, Robert; Bryant, Donna; Early, Diane; Clifford, Richard; Barbarin, Oscar – Applied Developmental Science, 2008
Publicly funded prekindergartens are programs that most states use to promote school readiness, especially of 4-year-old children at risk for academic problems due to poverty. Despite large public expenditures, these programs have not been widely evaluated. We examined 240 randomly selected pre-kindergarten programs in six states with mature…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Preschool Education, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers
Barbarin, Oscar A.; Early, Diane; Clifford, Richard; Bryant, Donna; Frome, Pamela; Burchinal, Margaret; Howes, Carollee; Pianta, Robert – Early Education and Development, 2008
Research Findings: This study analyzed the school readiness beliefs of parents of 452 children from public pre-kindergarten and the relations of these beliefs to socioeconomic status and children's readiness skills. Parents conceived readiness largely in terms of the ability to name objects, letters, or numbers, but few included inferential…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Reading Readiness, Socioeconomic Status, Parent Attitudes
LoCasale-Crouch, Jennifer; Konold, Tim; Pianta, Robert; Howes, Carollee; Burchinal, Margaret; Bryant, Donna; Clifford, Richard; Early, Diane; Barbarin, Oscar – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2007
In the past decade in the United States, pre-kindergarten programs for four year olds have expanded rapidly as a potentially powerful intervention intended to promote school readiness for children at-risk for future school failure. This paper describes in detail multi-dimensional profiles of observed quality across 692 classrooms in 11 states…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Profiles, School Readiness, Poverty
Download full textBryant, Donna; Maxwell, Kelly; Taylor, Karen; Poe, Michele; Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen; Bernier, Kathleen – 2003
The primary goal of Smart Start is to ensure that all children enter school healthy and prepared to succeed. Smart Start has funded a variety of technical assistance (TA) activities to improve child care, including on-site technical assistance, quality improvement and facility grant, teacher education scholarships, license upgrades, teacher salary…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality, Low Income
Barbarin, Oscar A.; McCandies, Terry; Early, Diane; Clifford, Richard M.; Bryant, Donna; Burchinal, Margaret; Howes, Carollee; Pianta, Robert – Early Education and Development, 2006
This study describes the meaning of program quality for a representative group of parents of children enrolled in public prekindergarten programs. Educators often conceptualized quality in terms of structural or process indicators; parents most often cited teacher experience and relationship to children. Families, like educators, emphasized…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Public Education, Educational Quality, Preschool Education
Peer reviewedSkinner, Debra; Bryant, Donna; Coffman, Jennifer; Campbell, Frances – Elementary School Journal, 1998
Used ethnographic research on former Head Start children during their transition to school to examine how notions of their "risk" or "promise" as students were constructed through specific discourses and practices in kindergarten classrooms. Found many examples of positive interactions between students and teachers but also…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Discourse Analysis, Ethnography, High Risk Students
Maxwell, Kelly; Bryant, Donna; Miller-Johnson, Shari – 1999
The purpose of this study was to determine whether children living in North Carolina who attended child care centers that participated in many Smart Start quality improvement efforts have better skills when they enter kindergarten than do a comparison group of children from other child care centers of family child care homes. Subjects were 214…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Counties, Day Care, Family Day Care
Maxwell, Kelly; Bryant, Donna; Keyes, Lynette; Bernier, Kathleen – 1997
Smart Start is North Carolina's partnership between state government and local leaders, service providers, and families to better serve children under 6 years and their families with the aim of ensuring that all children are healthy and prepared to succeed as they enter school. This study examined the baseline skills of a representative sample of…
Descriptors: Counties, Family Programs, Health Services, Integrated Services
Bryant, Donna; Bernier, Kathleen; Taylor, Karen; Maxwell, Kelly – 1998
Helping families access affordable, quality child care has been the primary focus for the Orange County, North Carolina Smart Start Partnership for Young Children. This study investigated the effects of Smart Start efforts on children's skills at kindergarten entry. Kindergarten teachers rated the cognitive, language and social skills of 39…
Descriptors: Day Care Centers, Day Care Effects, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Objectives
Bryant, Donna; Maxwell, Kelly; Burchinal, Peg; Lowman, Betsy – 1997
Smart Start is a broad-based community initiative to ensure that all of North Carolina's children arrive at school healthy and ready to learn. This study examined the effect of Smart Start on the quality of child care from 1994-1996. Data were collected from child care centers in 12 counties implementing the initiative. Data collectors visited 180…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Day Care, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Improvement
