Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Article	Citations
Pathways from socioeconomic status to early academic achievement: The role of specific executive functions	55
Null relations between CLASS scores and gains in children’s language, math, and executive function skills: A replication and extension study	52
School readiness skills at age four predict academic achievement through 5th grade	47
Explaining achievement gaps in kindergarten and third grade: The role of self-regulation and executive function skills	46
Relating early care and education quality to preschool outcomes: The same or different models for different outcomes?	38
Engagement in social pretend play predicts preschoolers’ executive function gains across the school year	30
Depressive and anxiety symptoms in early childhood education teachers: Relations to professional well-being and absenteeism	29
Early Childhood Teachers of Color in New York City: heightened stress, lower quality of life, declining health, and compromised sleep amidst COVID-19	29
Free play predicts self-regulation years later: Longitudinal evidence from a large Australian sample of toddlers and preschoolers	29
Corollary child outcomes from the Pyramid Model professional development intervention efficacy trial	27
Implementation and Challenges of Online Education during the COVID-19 Outbreak: A National Survey of Children and Parents in China	26
Reexamining the Carolina Abecedarian Project using an antiracist perspective: Implications for early care and education research	25
The Head-Toes-Knees-Shoulders Revised (HTKS-R): Development and psychometric properties of a revision to reduce floor effects	25
Enrollment in public-prekindergarten and school readiness skills at kindergarten entry: Differential associations by home language, income, and program characteristics	23
Home literacy environment and existing knowledge mediate the link between socioeconomic status and language learning skills in dual language learners	23
An early numeracy intervention for first-graders at risk for mathematical learning difficulties	23
Exclusionary discipline practices in early childhood settings: A survey of child care directors	22
How the home learning environment contributes to children's early science knowledge—Associations with parental characteristics and science-related activities	22
Preschool practices in Sweden, Portugal, and the United States	21
Direct numeracy activities and early math skills: Math language as a mediator	21
Preschool quality and child development in China	20
Parental involvement during the kindergarten transition and children’s early reading and mathematics skills	20
Widely used measures of classroom quality are largely unrelated to preschool skill development	20
Unpacking the relations between home literacy environment and word reading in Chinese children: The influence of parental responsive behaviors and parents’ difficulties with literacy activities	19
Enhancing children’s numerical skills through a play-based intervention at kindergarten and at home: a quasi-experimental study	19

A meta-analysis of teacher language practices in early childhood classrooms	19
Self-regulation moderates the relationship between fine motor skills and writing in early childhood	18
Associations of smartphone and tablet use in early childhood with psychosocial, cognitive and sleep factors: a systematic review and meta-analysis	18
Parents’ socialization of preschool-aged children's emotion skills: A meta-analysis using an emotion-focused parenting practices framework	18
Preschool teachers’ self-efficacy, classroom process quality, and children’s social skills: A multilevel mediation analysis	17
Silent expectations: An exploration of women pre-Kindergarten teachers’ mental health and wellness during Covid-19 and beyond	17
Differences between Pre-K and Kindergarten classroom experiences: do they predict children's social-emotional skills and self-regulation across the transition to kindergarten?	17
The Effects of Universal Preschool on Child and Adult Outcomes: A Review of Recent Evidence from Europe with Implications for the United States	17
To Whom Little Is Given, Much Is Expected: ECE Teacher Stressors and Supports as Determinants of Classroom Quality	17
Early childhood educators’ provision of remote learning during COVID-19	17
Prevalence and prediction of kindergarten-transition difficulties	17
The influence of early adversity on self-regulation and student-teacher relationships in preschool	17
Measuring preschool quality in low- and middle-income countries: Validity of the ECERS-R in Colombia	16
Implementation of a small-group emergent literacy intervention by preschool teachers and community aides	16
Early childhood educators’ psychological distress and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic	16
Who participates in quality rating and improvement systems?	15
Using video to assess preschool teachers’ pedagogical knowledge: explicit and higher-order knowledge predicts quality	15
The impact of social pretend play on preschoolers’ social development: Results of an experimental study	15
Parents’ perceived goals for early mathematics learning and their relations with children's motivation to learn mathematics	15
A systematic review of word selection in early childhood vocabulary instruction	15
Heterogeneity in maternal and child mental health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic	15
Predicting selection into ECEC of higher quality in a universal context: The role of parental education and income	14
Program-wide implementation of the Pyramid Model: Supporting fidelity at the program and classroom levels	14
Socioeconomic status, parental beliefs, and parenting practices as predictors of preschoolers’ school readiness and executive functions in chile	14
‘What do YOU think?’: Children's questions, teacher's responses and children's follow-up across diverse preschool settings	14
Influences of the home language and literacy environment on Spanish and English vocabulary growth among dual language learners	14
Dual language supports for dual language learners? Exploring preschool classroom instructional supports for DLLs' early learning outcomes	14
Family socio-economic status and Chinese Preschoolers’ anxious symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic: the roles of parental investment, parenting style, home quarantine length, and regional pandemic r	14
The importance of specific mathematical language for early proportional reasoning	14
Both sides of the screen: Predictors of parents’ and teachers’ depression and food insecurity during COVID-19-related distance learning	13
Family routines and practices that support the school readiness of young children living in poverty	13
Multi-tiered system of supports in early childhood: identifying gaps, considerations for application, and solutions	13
Comparing set-to-number and number-to-set measures of cardinal number knowledge in preschool children using latent variable modeling	13
Effects of fathers’ and mothers’ expectations and home literacy involvement on their children's cognitive–linguistic skills, vocabulary, and word reading	13
Capturing talk and proximity in the classroom: Advances in measuring features of young children's friendships	13
Maternal question use and child language outcomes: The moderating role of children's vocabulary skills and socioeconomic status	13
Unique effects of book-reading at 9-months on vocabulary development at 36-months: Insights from a nationally representative sample of Irish families	13
Effects of New Jersey's Abbott preschool program on children's achievement, grade retention, and special education through tenth grade	13
Antecedents and consequences of young children's interest in mathematics	13
Teaching spanish‐speaking caregivers to implement EMT en Español: a small randomized trial	13
Explaining income disparities in young children’s development: The role of community contexts and family processes✰	12
Preschool teacher-child relationships and children's expressive vocabulary skills: The potential mediating role of profiles of children's engagement in the classroom	12
Sing it or speak it?: the effects of sung and rhythmically spoken songs on preschool children's word learning	12
Run fast and sit still: Connections among aerobic fitness, physical activity, and sedentary time with executive function during pre-kindergarten	12
Home mathematics environment and math performance of Chilean students in kindergarten and Grades 1 to 3	12
Relations between caregivers’ emotion regulation strategies, parenting styles, and preschoolers’ emotional competence in Chinese parenting and grandparenting	12
Head Start children’s science experiences in the home and community	12
Screen media are associated with fine motor skill development in preschool children	12
Impacts of the New Mexico PreK initiative by children’s race/ethnicity	12
Preschoolers’ interactions with other-gender peers promote prosocial behavior and reduce aggression: An examination of the Buddy Up intervention	11

Trajectories of teacher–child relationships across kindergarten and first grade: The influence of gender and disruptive behavior	11
Caregivers’ perceived changes in engaged time with preschool-aged children during COVID-19: Familial correlates and relations to children's learning behavior and emotional distress	11
Evidence of support for dual language learners in a study of bilingual staffing patterns using the Classroom Assessment of Supports for Emergent Bilingual Acquisition (CASEBA)	11
Parent-child shared book reading mediates the impact of socioeconomic status on heritage language learners’ emergent literacy	11
Activity settings, content, and pedagogical strategies in preschool classrooms: Do these influence the interactions we observe?	11
Persistent inequalities in early years’ access and learning: evidence from large-scale expansion of pre-primary education in Ethiopia	11
Teaching Together: Pilot study of a tiered language and literacy intervention with Head Start teachers and linguistically diverse families	11
Listening to Head Start teachers: Teacher beliefs, practices, and needs for educating dual language learners	11
Supporting language and literacy development with intensive small-group interventions: An early childhood efficacy study	10
Parental sensitivity and intrusiveness in gay-, lesbian-, and heterosexual-parent families with infants conceived using artificial reproductive techniques: Do parents’ gender and caregiver role matter	10
Early childhood Special education teachers' self-efficacy in relation to individual children: Links to children's literacy learning	10
Parent child directed speech in dyadic and triadic interaction: Associations with co-parenting dynamics and child language outcomes	10
Designing culturally situated playful environments for early STEM learning with a Latine community	10
Exploring school bus ridership and absenteeism in rural communities	10
Family engagement in early learning opportunities at home and in early childhood education centers in Colombia	10
Strategies, recommendations, and validation of remote executive function tasks for use with young children	10
An introduction to the many-facet Rasch model as a method to improve observational quality measures with an application to measuring the teaching of emotion skills	10
Impacts of Roots of Resilience professional development for early childhood teachers on Young children’s protective factors	10
An ecological perspective on early educator well-being at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Through the lens of early educators: Understanding the use of expulsion and suspension in childcare programs	10
Executive function measures in early childhood screening: concurrent and predictive validity	9
Home educational contexts of Asian American children: Disentangling the effects of structural and cultural factors	9
Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the child care sector: Evidence from North Carolina	9
The relation of home literacy environments to language and preliteracy skills in single- and dual-language children in Danish childcare	9
The contribution of inhibitory control to early literacy skills in 4‐ to 5‐year‐old children	9
Hard-to-staff centers: Exploring center-level variation in the persistence of child care teacher turnover	9
First do no harm: How teachers support or undermine children's self-regulation	9
Early childhood education attendance and school readiness in low- and middle-income countries: The moderating role of family socioeconomic status	9
Understanding Initial and Sustained Engagement of Spanish-Speaking Latina Mothers in the Legacy for Children Program™: A Qualitative Examination of a Group-Based Parenting Program	9
The relationship between child-centered teaching attitudes in childcare centers and the socio-emotional development of Japanese toddlers	9
Classrooms with high rates of absenteeism and individual success: Exploring students’ achievement, executive function, and socio-behavioral outcomes	9
The quality of mother-toddler communication predicts language and early literacy in Mexican American children from low-income households	9
Understanding the wellbeing of early educators in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic: Lessons from Louisiana	9
Text to talk: Effects of a home-school vocabulary texting intervention on prekindergarten vocabulary	9
The role of language in the association between theory of mind and executive functioning in early childhood: New longitudinal evidence	9
Parental migration, nurturing care, and early social-emotional development of children in rural China	9
The association of daily spiritual experiences with depression among Head Start staff	9
Challenging parenting behavior in ethnically diverse two-parent families in the United States: Association with infants’ social competence and behavior problems	9
Differential associations between extracurricular participation and Chinese children's academic readiness: Preschool teacher–child interactions as a moderator	9
The sound of self-regulation: Music program relates to an advantage for children at risk	9
Observed peer competence moderates links between children’s self-regulation skills and academic performance	9
Latine Caregivers’ Approaches to Engaging Young Children in Mathematics	9
Adverse childhood experiences, stress, and resilience among early childhood teachers	9
Implementing toddler interventions at scale: The case of “We learn together”	9
Development and validation of the Systematic Assessment of Book Reading (SABR-2.2)	9
Contributions of parenting quality and coparenting relationship quality to the development of child executive functioning	9
Predicting preschool children's self-regulation from positive emotion: The moderating role of parental positive emotion socialization	8
Preschool teachers’ language-related pedagogical beliefs and their relation to observed classroom quality	8
Longitudinal relations among teacher-student closeness, cognitive flexibility, intrinsic reading motivation, and reading achievement	8
An investigation of Head Start preschool children's executive function, early literacy, and numeracy learning in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Impacts of COVID-19 on the early care and education sector in California: Variations across program types	8
Maternal book-sharing styles and goals and children’s verbal contributions in three communities	8
Fathers, faith, and family gender messages: Are religiosity and gender talk related to children's gender attitudes and preferences?	8
Questions and explanations in the classroom: Examining variation in early childhood teachers’ responses to children's scientific questions	8
Content-rich instruction and cognitive demand in prek: using systematic observations to predict child gains	8
Supporting Spanish-English DLLs in Head Start: Peer Language Match, Instructional Language Match, and Emotional Support as Predictors of Approaches to Learning and Social Skills	8
Political prioritization of early childhood education during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparative policy analysis of low- and middle-income countries	8
Exploring treatment impact heterogeneity across sites: Challenges and opportunities for early childhood researchers	8
Associations between preschool quality and children's social-emotional development until 2nd grade of elementary school	8
Kindergarteners’ spatial skills and their reading and math achievement in second grade	8
Profiles of teacher & child talk during early childhood classroom shared book reading	8
Literacy learning in early Chinese-English bilinguals: the role of pure copying skill	8
The effects of a high quality state-run preschool program as rated by a Quality Rating and Improvement System on children's school readiness	8
Alignment of teacher ratings and child direct assessments in preschool: A closer look at teaching strategies GOLD	8
Rhythm and movement delivered by teachers supports self-regulation skills of preschool-aged children in disadvantaged communities: A clustered RCT	8
An exploration of robot programming as a foundation for spatial reasoning and computational thinking in preschoolers’ guided play	8
Measuring preschool children's engagement behaviors during classroom shared reading: Construct and concurrent validity of the shared reading engagement rating scale	8
The development of toddlers’ emotion regulation within the family system: associations with observed parent-child synchrony and interparental relationship satisfaction	8
Sustained benefits of a preschool home visiting program: Child outcomes in fifth grade	7
Unpacking the home numeracy environment: Examining dimensions of number activities in early childhood	7
Linking Chinese mothers’ and fathers’ scaffolding with children's initiative and mathematics performance: a moderated mediation model	7
Profiles of German early childhood teachers’ pedagogical content beliefs and the relation to their competencies	7
Paternal mind-mindedness and child executive functioning in the kindergarten classroom	7
Learning experiences vary across young children in the same classroom: evidence from the individualizing student instruction measure in the Boston Public Schools	7
Effects of training parents in dialogic book‐sharing: The Early‐Years Provision in Children's Centers (EPICC) study	7
Self-regulation mediates the relations between family factors and preschool readiness	7
Reciprocal patterns of peer speech in preschoolers with and without hearing loss	7
Towards racial equity in publishing at Early Childhood Research Quarterly (ECRQ)	7
Do teacher talk features mediate the effects of shared reading on preschool children's second-language development?	7
Home language use with children, dialogue with multilingual parents and professional development in ECEC	7

Computational thinking in early childhood education: The impact of programming a tangible robot on developing debugging knowledge	7
Children's theory of mind referencing and contribution to discourse during different book sharing contexts in preschool	6
Classroom age composition and preschoolers’ language and literacy gains: The role of classroom engagement	6
Adding family math to the equation: Promoting Head Start preschoolers’ mathematics learning at home and school	6
Linking professional development to classroom quality: Differences by ECE sector	6
Consistent routines matter: Child routines mediated the association between interparental functioning and school readiness	6
Supporting the understanding of cardinal number knowledge in preschoolers: Evidence from instructional practices based on finger patterns	6
Effects of cumulative family risks on school readiness skills: A cross-cultural study between the U.S. and Korea	6
Impacts of two public preschool programs on school readiness in San Francisco	6
Maternal and paternal insensitivity, adaptive engagement, and school readiness skills among economically disadvantaged children: A dynamic approach	6
The relationship of language and social competence of preschool- and kindergarten-age single and dual language learners in Switzerland and Germany	6
Private speech and the development of self-regulation: The importance of temperamental anger	6
Exploring Head Start teacher and leader perceptions of the Pre-K Classroom Assessment Scoring System as a part of the Head Start Designation Renewal System	6
Longitudinal associations among teacher–child relationship quality, behavioral engagement, and academic achievement	6
Parental Problematic Smartphone Use and Children's Executive Function: The Mediating Role of Technoference and the Moderating Role of Children's Age	6
Tiered universal and targeted early childhood interventions: Enhancing attendance across families with varying needs	6
Executive function in kindergarten and development of behavioral competence: The moderating role of positive parenting practices	6
The association of the home literacy environment and parental reading beliefs with oral language growth trajectories of Spanish-English bilingual children	6
School uniforms and student behavior: is there a link?	6
Replication of combined school readiness interventions for teachers and parents of head start pre-kindergarteners using remote delivery	6
Peer effects on dual language learners’ English and Spanish receptive vocabulary development	6
Book sharing and reminiscing: Caregivers’ conversational style and children's language and literacy development in low-income Costa Rican families	6
Examining the relationship between discrimination, access to material resources, and black children's behavioral functioning during COVID-19	6
Mother-father relationships and child social-emotional adjustment: Mediation through maternal and paternal parenting	6
Kindergarten academic and social skills and exposure to peers with pre-kindergarten experience	6
Neglected validities: A diagnostic look at the state of early childhood assessment	5
Pros and (con)flict: Using head-mounted cameras to identify teachers’ roles in intervening in conflict among preschool children	5
Self-regulation development among young Spanish-English dual language learners	5
Hypotheses in adult-child interactions stimulate children's reasoning and verbalizations	5
Executive control in dual language learning preschoolers: The association between Hot and cool executive control and science achievement	5
Embedded instruction for young children with disabilities: A systematic review and meta-analysis of single-case experimental research studies	5
A director like me: Teacher-leader racial/ethnic match and job outcomes in child care centers	5
Developmental patterns of behavioural self-regulation and peer relations in early childhood	5
Associations between preschool sleep problems and observed dimensions of elementary classroom engagement	5
Data collection and analysis for preschoolers: An engaging context for integrating mathematics and computational thinking with digital tools	5
Identifying developmental profiles for children in Early Head Start: Associations with early risk and protective factors	5
Reading with 1–2 year olds impacts academic achievement at 8–11 years	5
The social competence of internationally-adopted and institutionalized children throughout childhood: a comparative and longitudinal study	5
The intersection of teacher-child language & ethnic match for Hispanic/Latine dual language learners in early elementary school	5
Development of children's informal understanding of division through sharing: Contributions of reasoning demands and problem situations	5
‘A place where my children could learn to read, write, and play’: The search for early care and education among undocumented Central American immigrant mothers	5
Retention and turnover of teaching staff in a high-quality early childhood network	5
Early literacy acquisition in logographic orthographies: Evidence from Chinese and Japanese	5
Coding as another language: Research-based curriculum for early childhood computer science	5
A sociometric approach to understanding characteristics of same- and other-gender friendships in young children	5
Identifying effective strategies to instruct parents during parent-implemented intervention: The role of parent practice with feedback	5
Characterizing preschooler's outdoor physical activity: The comparability of schoolyard location- and activity type-based approaches	5
The role of executive function in shaping the longitudinal stability of math achievement during early elementary grades	5
Following the leader: Associations between leader support and teacher retention in child care settings	5
Pilot test of the Hablemos Juntos Tier 2 academic language curriculum for Spanish-speaking preschoolers	5
Early learning opportunities of preschool children affected by migration in China	5
Fixed effect estimates of student-teacher racial or ethnic matching in U.S. elementary schools	5
Investigating the utility of a kindergarten number line assessment compared to an early numeracy screening battery	5
A peer-mediated approach to support emergent bilingual preschoolers	4
Teacher-child racial/ethnic match from prekindergarten through first grade: Understanding early exposure and outcomes	4
Accommodating life's demands: Childcare choices for student parents in higher education	4
Different settings, different patterns of impacts: Effects of a Pre-K math intervention in a mixed-delivery system	4
Spatial skills and counting sequence knowledge: Investigating reciprocal longitudinal relations in early years	4
Centering teacher and parent voice to realize culturally relevant computational thinking in early childhood	4
Associations between teachers’ skill in identifying effective interactions and children's gains in language, literacy, and early learning behaviors	4
“I See Why They Play”: Chinese immigrant parents and their beliefs about young children's play	4
Adverse childhood experiences among early childhood educators and improving teacher health and well-being: Changes in teacher affect	4
Stability of father- and mother-child synchrony in a playful setting from preschool to middle childhood: Associations with children's behavior problems	4
Comparing center-based with home-based child care: type of care moderates the association between process quality and child functioning	4
From preschool to politics: Early socialization in Tulsa	4
Teacher-child racial congruence and young children's preschool adjustment	4
Effects of the MMCI course and coaching on pre-service ECE teachers’ beliefs, knowledge, and skill	4
Interactions between child temperament and family environment in relation to school readiness: Diathesis-stress, differential susceptibility, or vantage sensitivity?	4
How much variability is there in children's experiences with different educators?	4
Parents’ epistemological beliefs to children's early numeracy abilities: Pathways through parents’ home practices and children's numeracy interest	4
Infant attachment configurations with mothers and fathers: Implications for triadic interaction quality and children's parental preferences	4
Introduction to ECRQ special issue measuring quality in early care and education: Past, present, and future	4
Does screen exposure necessarily relate to behavior problems? The buffering roles of emotion regulation and caregiver companionship	4
Standards, curriculum, and assessment in early childhood education: Examining alignment across multiple state systems	4
Computational thinking with families: Studying an at-home media intervention to promote joint media engagement between preschoolers and their parents	4
Developmental differences in children's and adults’ strategies on a repeating pattern task	4
Gender equity and motivational readiness for computational thinking in early childhood	4
Room to grow: examining participation and stability in child care subsidies using state administrative data	4
Teacher language quality in preschool classrooms: Examining associations with DLLs' oral language skills	3
Math for 2s and 3s: The impact of parent-child math activities on parents’ beliefs and behaviors and young children's math skill development	3
The reciprocal relationship between vocabulary knowledge and word reading in Chinese primary-school children	3
Preschool children's engagement with a social robot compared to a human instructor	3
Is everybody happy? Exploring the predictability of parent satisfaction with childcare in Flanders	3
A mixed-methods study of Maryland’s monetary incentives to improve the quality of child care centers	3
The development and prediction of young children's behavioral mastery motivation	3
Examining the Denver Preschool Program tuition credit in relation to children's academic and attendance outcomes at kindergarten	3
Engagement in the preschool classroom: Brief measures for use with children from ethno-racially diverse and low-income backgrounds	3
To excel and to be happy: Parenting behaviors, parenting stress, and sociocultural contexts in Dutch and urban Chinese families	3
Reliability and validity evidence for the English and Spanish preschool narrative language measures-listening	3
Parents’ physically performative behaviors during shared book reading: A comparison of mothers and fathers	3
Examining individual children's peer engagement in pre-kindergarten classrooms: Relations with classroom-level teacher-child interaction quality	3
Parent time investments in their children's learning during a policy-mandated shutdown: parent, child, and household influences	3
Exploring predictors and outcomes of racial/ethnic match between children and providers in Early Head Start	3
Early Childhood Education Teacher's Beliefs about a Match in Home Language Proficiency with Emergent Bilingual Learners	3
Investigating children's interactions in preschool classrooms: An overview of research using automated sensing technologies	3