Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Article	Citations
Null relations between CLASS scores and gains in children’s language, math, and executive function skills: A replication and extension study	44
Pathways from socioeconomic status to early academic achievement: The role of specific executive functions	42
Explaining achievement gaps in kindergarten and third grade: The role of self-regulation and executive function skills	41
Relating early care and education quality to preschool outcomes: The same or different models for different outcomes?	31
School readiness skills at age four predict academic achievement through 5th grade	31
Engagement in social pretend play predicts preschoolers’ executive function gains across the school year	27
The Head-Toes-Knees-Shoulders Revised (HTKS-R): Development and psychometric properties of a revision to reduce floor effects	25
Early Childhood Teachers of Color in New York City: heightened stress, lower quality of life, declining health, and compromised sleep amidst COVID-19	24
Corollary child outcomes from the Pyramid Model professional development intervention efficacy trial	22
Enrollment in public-prekindergarten and school readiness skills at kindergarten entry: Differential associations by home language, income, and program characteristics	22
Free play predicts self-regulation years later: Longitudinal evidence from a large Australian sample of toddlers and preschoolers	22
An early numeracy intervention for first-graders at risk for mathematical learning difficulties	19
Home literacy environment and existing knowledge mediate the link between socioeconomic status and language learning skills in dual language learners	19
Reexamining the Carolina Abecedarian Project using an antiracist perspective: Implications for early care and education research	19
How the home learning environment contributes to children's early science knowledge—Associations with parental characteristics and science-related activities	18
Preschool practices in Sweden, Portugal, and the United States	17
Depressive and anxiety symptoms in early childhood education teachers: Relations to professional well-being and absenteeism	17
Exclusionary discipline practices in early childhood settings: A survey of child care directors	17
Parental involvement during the kindergarten transition and children’s early reading and mathematics skills	17
Enhancing children’s numerical skills through a play-based intervention at kindergarten and at home: a quasi-experimental study	17
Implementation of a small-group emergent literacy intervention by preschool teachers and community aides	16
The influence of early adversity on self-regulation and student-teacher relationships in preschool	16
Direct numeracy activities and early math skills: Math language as a mediator	16
A meta-analysis of teacher language practices in early childhood classrooms	16
Preschool quality and child development in China	15

Implementation and Challenges of Online Education during the COVID-19 Outbreak: A National Survey of Children and Parents in China	15
Widely used measures of classroom quality are largely unrelated to preschool skill development	15
Predicting selection into ECEC of higher quality in a universal context: The role of parental education and income	14
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	14
Prevalence and prediction of kindergarten-transition difficulties	14
A systematic review of word selection in early childhood vocabulary instruction	13
Measuring preschool quality in low- and middle-income countries: Validity of the ECERS-R in Colombia	13
Who participates in quality rating and improvement systems?	13
Dual language supports for dual language learners? Exploring preschool classroom instructional supports for DLLs' early learning outcomes	13
Silent expectations: An exploration of women pre-Kindergarten teachers’ mental health and wellness during Covid-19 and beyond	13
To Whom Little Is Given, Much Is Expected: ECE Teacher Stressors and Supports as Determinants of Classroom Quality	13
Early childhood educators’ provision of remote learning during COVID-19	13
Screen media are associated with fine motor skill development in preschool children	12
The Effects of Universal Preschool on Child and Adult Outcomes: A Review of Recent Evidence from Europe with Implications for the United States	12
The importance of specific mathematical language for early proportional reasoning	12
Self-regulation moderates the relationship between fine motor skills and writing in early childhood	12
Heterogeneity in maternal and child mental health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic	12
Using video to assess preschool teachers’ pedagogical knowledge: explicit and higher-order knowledge predicts quality	12
Both sides of the screen: Predictors of parents’ and teachers’ depression and food insecurity during COVID-19-related distance learning	12
Influences of the home language and literacy environment on Spanish and English vocabulary growth among dual language learners	12
Persistent inequalities in early years’ access and learning: evidence from large-scale expansion of pre-primary education in Ethiopia	11
Differences between Pre-K and Kindergarten classroom experiences: do they predict children's social-emotional skills and self-regulation across the transition to kindergarten?	11
Capturing talk and proximity in the classroom: Advances in measuring features of young children's friendships	11
Program-wide implementation of the Pyramid Model: Supporting fidelity at the program and classroom levels	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
Preschool teachers’ self-efficacy, classroom process quality, and children’s social skills: A multilevel mediation analysis	11
Parents’ perceived goals for early mathematics learning and their relations with children's motivation to learn mathematics	11
Parents’ socialization of preschool-aged children's emotion skills: A meta-analysis using an emotion-focused parenting practices framework	11
Associations of smartphone and tablet use in early childhood with psychosocial, cognitive and sleep factors: a systematic review and meta-analysis	11
Effects of New Jersey's Abbott preschool program on children's achievement, grade retention, and special education through tenth grade	11
Early childhood educators’ psychological distress and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Head Start children’s science experiences in the home and community	10
Antecedents and consequences of young children's interest in mathematics	10
Preschoolers’ interactions with other-gender peers promote prosocial behavior and reduce aggression: An examination of the Buddy Up intervention	10
Impacts of the New Mexico PreK initiative by children’s race/ethnicity	10
Teaching Together: Pilot study of a tiered language and literacy intervention with Head Start teachers and linguistically diverse families	10
Comparing set-to-number and number-to-set measures of cardinal number knowledge in preschool children using latent variable modeling	10
The relation of home literacy environments to language and preliteracy skills in single- and dual-language children in Danish childcare	9
Impacts of Roots of Resilience professional development for early childhood teachers on Young children’s protective factors	9
Exploring school bus ridership and absenteeism in rural communities	9
Family routines and practices that support the school readiness of young children living in poverty	9
Home educational contexts of Asian American children: Disentangling the effects of structural and cultural factors	9
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	9
Sing it or speak it?: the effects of sung and rhythmically spoken songs on preschool children's word learning	9
Socioeconomic status, parental beliefs, and parenting practices as predictors of preschoolers’ school readiness and executive functions in chile	9
Explaining income disparities in young children’s development: The role of community contexts and family processes✰	9
Effects of fathers’ and mothers’ expectations and home literacy involvement on their children's cognitive–linguistic skills, vocabulary, and word reading	9
Home mathematics environment and math performance of Chilean students in kindergarten and Grades 1 to 3	9
Multi-tiered system of supports in early childhood: identifying gaps, considerations for application, and solutions	9
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	9

Unique effects of book-reading at 9-months on vocabulary development at 36-months: Insights from a nationally representative sample of Irish families	9
Run fast and sit still: Connections among aerobic fitness, physical activity, and sedentary time with executive function during pre-kindergarten	9
Preschool teacher-child relationships and children's expressive vocabulary skills: The potential mediating role of profiles of children's engagement in the classroom	9
Family engagement in early learning opportunities at home and in early childhood education centers in Colombia	9
Early childhood Special education teachers' self-efficacy in relation to individual children: Links to children's literacy learning	8
‘What do YOU think?’: Children's questions, teacher's responses and children's follow-up across diverse preschool settings	8
Parent-child shared book reading mediates the impact of socioeconomic status on heritage language learners’ emergent literacy	8
Hard-to-staff centers: Exploring center-level variation in the persistence of child care teacher turnover	8
Development and validation of the Systematic Assessment of Book Reading (SABR-2.2)	8
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	8
The relationship between child-centered teaching attitudes in childcare centers and the socio-emotional development of Japanese toddlers	8
The impact of social pretend play on preschoolers’ social development: Results of an experimental study	8
The development of toddlers’ emotion regulation within the family system: associations with observed parent-child synchrony and interparental relationship satisfaction	8
The association of daily spiritual experiences with depression among Head Start staff	8
An ecological perspective on early educator well-being at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Trajectories of teacher–child relationships across kindergarten and first grade: The influence of gender and disruptive behavior	8
Teaching spanish‐speaking caregivers to implement EMT en Español: a small randomized trial	8
Implementing toddler interventions at scale: The case of “We learn together”	8
Literacy learning in early Chinese-English bilinguals: the role of pure copying skill	8
Differential associations between extracurricular participation and Chinese children's academic readiness: Preschool teacher–child interactions as a moderator	7
The quality of mother-toddler communication predicts language and early literacy in Mexican American children from low-income households	7
Supporting language and literacy development with intensive small-group interventions: An early childhood efficacy study	7
Kindergarteners’ spatial skills and their reading and math achievement in second grade	7
Parental migration, nurturing care, and early social-emotional development of children in rural China	7
Executive function measures in early childhood screening: concurrent and predictive validity	7
Text to talk: Effects of a home-school vocabulary texting intervention on prekindergarten vocabulary	7
Maternal question use and child language outcomes: The moderating role of children's vocabulary skills and socioeconomic status	7
Listening to Head Start teachers: Teacher beliefs, practices, and needs for educating dual language learners	7
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	7
Contributions of parenting quality and coparenting relationship quality to the development of child executive functioning	7
Parent child directed speech in dyadic and triadic interaction: Associations with co-parenting dynamics and child language outcomes	7
Understanding the wellbeing of early educators in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic: Lessons from Louisiana	7
Towards racial equity in publishing at Early Childhood Research Quarterly (ECRQ)	7
First do no harm: How teachers support or undermine children's self-regulation	7
Private speech and the development of self-regulation: The importance of temperamental anger	6
Strategies, recommendations, and validation of remote executive function tasks for use with young children	6
The contribution of inhibitory control to early literacy skills in 4‐ to 5‐year‐old children	6
Profiles of teacher & child talk during early childhood classroom shared book reading	6
The association of the home literacy environment and parental reading beliefs with oral language growth trajectories of Spanish-English bilingual children	6
Challenging parenting behavior in ethnically diverse two-parent families in the United States: Association with infants’ social competence and behavior problems	6
School uniforms and student behavior: is there a link?	6
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	6
Observed peer competence moderates links between children’s self-regulation skills and academic performance	6
Activity settings, content, and pedagogical strategies in preschool classrooms: Do these influence the interactions we observe?	6
Maternal book-sharing styles and goals and children’s verbal contributions in three communities	6
Maternal and paternal insensitivity, adaptive engagement, and school readiness skills among economically disadvantaged children: A dynamic approach	6
Fathers, faith, and family gender messages: Are religiosity and gender talk related to children's gender attitudes and preferences?	6
Questions and explanations in the classroom: Examining variation in early childhood teachers’ responses to children's scientific questions	6
Peer effects on dual language learners’ English and Spanish receptive vocabulary development	6
Alignment of teacher ratings and child direct assessments in preschool: A closer look at teaching strategies GOLD	6
Exploring treatment impact heterogeneity across sites: Challenges and opportunities for early childhood researchers	6
Political prioritization of early childhood education during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparative policy analysis of low- and middle-income countries	6
Adverse childhood experiences, stress, and resilience among early childhood teachers	6
Relations between caregivers’ emotion regulation strategies, parenting styles, and preschoolers’ emotional competence in Chinese parenting and grandparenting	6
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	6
Content-rich instruction and cognitive demand in prek: using systematic observations to predict child gains	6
Linking Chinese mothers’ and fathers’ scaffolding with children's initiative and mathematics performance: a moderated mediation model	6
Through the lens of early educators: Understanding the use of expulsion and suspension in childcare programs	6
Home language use with children, dialogue with multilingual parents and professional development in ECEC	5
Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the child care sector: Evidence from North Carolina	5
Self-regulation mediates the relations between family factors and preschool readiness	5
Sustained benefits of a preschool home visiting program: Child outcomes in fifth grade	5
Parental Problematic Smartphone Use and Children's Executive Function: The Mediating Role of Technoference and the Moderating Role of Children's Age	5
Kindergarten academic and social skills and exposure to peers with pre-kindergarten experience	5
Standards, curriculum, and assessment in early childhood education: Examining alignment across multiple state systems	5
Profiles of German early childhood teachers’ pedagogical content beliefs and the relation to their competencies	5
Preschool teachers’ language-related pedagogical beliefs and their relation to observed classroom quality	5
Neglected validities: A diagnostic look at the state of early childhood assessment	5
Reciprocal patterns of peer speech in preschoolers with and without hearing loss	5
Identifying developmental profiles for children in Early Head Start: Associations with early risk and protective factors	5
The role of language in the association between theory of mind and executive functioning in early childhood: New longitudinal evidence	5
Early childhood education attendance and school readiness in low- and middle-income countries: The moderating role of family socioeconomic status	5
Pilot test of the Hablemos Juntos Tier 2 academic language curriculum for Spanish-speaking preschoolers	5
Classrooms with high rates of absenteeism and individual success: Exploring students’ achievement, executive function, and socio-behavioral outcomes	5
Replication of combined school readiness interventions for teachers and parents of head start pre-kindergarteners using remote delivery	5
Examining the relationship between discrimination, access to material resources, and black children's behavioral functioning during COVID-19	5
Impacts of COVID-19 on the early care and education sector in California: Variations across program types	5
Reading with 1–2 year olds impacts academic achievement at 8–11 years	5
Spatial skills and counting sequence knowledge: Investigating reciprocal longitudinal relations in early years	4
The effects of a high quality state-run preschool program as rated by a Quality Rating and Improvement System on children's school readiness	4

Executive control in dual language learning preschoolers: The association between Hot and cool executive control and science achievement	4
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	4
‘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	4
Early learning opportunities of preschool children affected by migration in China	4
Paternal mind-mindedness and child executive functioning in the kindergarten classroom	4
Pros and (con)flict: Using head-mounted cameras to identify teachers’ roles in intervening in conflict among preschool children	4
Executive function in kindergarten and development of behavioral competence: The moderating role of positive parenting practices	4
Identifying effective strategies to instruct parents during parent-implemented intervention: The role of parent practice with feedback	4
Consistent routines matter: Child routines mediated the association between interparental functioning and school readiness	4
Children's theory of mind referencing and contribution to discourse during different book sharing contexts in preschool	4
The sound of self-regulation: Music program relates to an advantage for children at risk	4
An investigation of Head Start preschool children's executive function, early literacy, and numeracy learning in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Classroom age composition and preschoolers’ language and literacy gains: The role of classroom engagement	4
Book sharing and reminiscing: Caregivers’ conversational style and children's language and literacy development in low-income Costa Rican families	4
Designing culturally situated playful environments for early STEM learning with a Latine community	4
Adding family math to the equation: Promoting Head Start preschoolers’ mathematics learning at home and school	4
“I See Why They Play”: Chinese immigrant parents and their beliefs about young children's play	4
The role of executive function in shaping the longitudinal stability of math achievement during early elementary grades	4
Infant attachment configurations with mothers and fathers: Implications for triadic interaction quality and children's parental preferences	4
Stability of father- and mother-child synchrony in a playful setting from preschool to middle childhood: Associations with children's behavior problems	4
Longitudinal associations among teacher–child relationship quality, behavioral engagement, and academic achievement	4
Associations between preschool quality and children's social-emotional development until 2nd grade of elementary school	4
Mother-father relationships and child social-emotional adjustment: Mediation through maternal and paternal parenting	4
Longitudinal relations among teacher-student closeness, cognitive flexibility, intrinsic reading motivation, and reading achievement	3
Associations between preschool sleep problems and observed dimensions of elementary classroom engagement	3
Does screen exposure necessarily relate to behavior problems? The buffering roles of emotion regulation and caregiver companionship	3
Different settings, different patterns of impacts: Effects of a Pre-K math intervention in a mixed-delivery system	3
Self-regulation development among young Spanish-English dual language learners	3
Hypotheses in adult-child interactions stimulate children's reasoning and verbalizations	3
Impacts of two public preschool programs on school readiness in San Francisco	3
Do teacher talk features mediate the effects of shared reading on preschool children's second-language development?	3
Variations in the home language environment and early language development in a peri-urban community in China	3
How much variability is there in children's experiences with different educators?	3
Investigating the utility of a kindergarten number line assessment compared to an early numeracy screening battery	3
A peer-mediated approach to support emergent bilingual preschoolers	3
Linking professional development to classroom quality: Differences by ECE sector	3
Coding as another language: Research-based curriculum for early childhood computer science	3
A sociometric approach to understanding characteristics of same- and other-gender friendships in young children	3
Measuring preschool children's engagement behaviors during classroom shared reading: Construct and concurrent validity of the shared reading engagement rating scale	3
A mixed-methods study of Maryland’s monetary incentives to improve the quality of child care centers	3
Is everybody happy? Exploring the predictability of parent satisfaction with childcare in Flanders	3
Interactions between child temperament and family environment in relation to school readiness: Diathesis-stress, differential susceptibility, or vantage sensitivity?	3
Do preschool entitlements distribute quality fairly? Racial inequity in New York City	3
Teacher attunement to preschool children's peer preferences: Associations with child and classroom-level variables	3
Assessing the Efficacy of Tier 2 Mathematics Intervention for Spanish Primary School Students	3
A director like me: Teacher-leader racial/ethnic match and job outcomes in child care centers	3
Embedded instruction for young children with disabilities: A systematic review and meta-analysis of single-case experimental research studies	3
Examining the Denver Preschool Program tuition credit in relation to children's academic and attendance outcomes at kindergarten	3
Introduction to ECRQ special issue measuring quality in early care and education: Past, present, and future	3
Latine Caregivers’ Approaches to Engaging Young Children in Mathematics	3
Tiered universal and targeted early childhood interventions: Enhancing attendance across families with varying needs	3
The intersection of teacher-child language & ethnic match for Hispanic/Latine dual language learners in early elementary school	3
Characterizing preschooler's outdoor physical activity: The comparability of schoolyard location- and activity type-based approaches	3
The social competence of internationally-adopted and institutionalized children throughout childhood: a comparative and longitudinal study	3
Parent-child Interactions in Numeracy Activities: Parental Scaffolding, Mathematical Talk, and Game Format	3
Effects of training parents in dialogic book‐sharing: The Early‐Years Provision in Children's Centers (EPICC) study	3
Developmental patterns of behavioural self-regulation and peer relations in early childhood	3
Teacher language quality in preschool classrooms: Examining associations with DLLs' oral language skills	3
To excel and to be happy: Parenting behaviors, parenting stress, and sociocultural contexts in Dutch and urban Chinese families	2
Learning experiences vary across young children in the same classroom: evidence from the individualizing student instruction measure in the Boston Public Schools	2
Young children's cortisol levels at out-of-home child care: A meta-analysis	2
Cognitive development and parenting during early childhood among Mapuche and non-indigenous Chileans	2
Introduction to Special Issue Contributions of father-child relationship to children's development within the larger family system: A focus on observational measures	2
“A win-win for all of us": COVID-19 sheds light on the essentialness of child care as key infrastructure	2
Do Katie and Connor tell better stories than Aaliyah and Jamaal? Teachers’ perceptions of children's oral narratives as a function of race and narrative quality	2
Pre-kindergarten teachers’ family engagement practices and English Language Learners’ attendance and early learning skills: Exploring the role of the linguistic context	2
Do Prekindergarten benchmarks affect fourth-grade academic outcomes?	2
Engagement in the preschool classroom: Brief measures for use with children from ethno-racially diverse and low-income backgrounds	2
Parent time investments in their children's learning during a policy-mandated shutdown: parent, child, and household influences	2
Teacher-child racial/ethnic match from prekindergarten through first grade: Understanding early exposure and outcomes	2
From early risk via cognitive functioning to ADHD phenotype: A longitudinal study of boys at familial risk for ADHD	2
From preschool to politics: Early socialization in Tulsa	2
State leaders in early childhood education: Perspectives on instructional policy supports and alignment	2
Supporting the understanding of cardinal number knowledge in preschoolers: Evidence from instructional practices based on finger patterns	2
Teacher-child racial congruence and young children's preschool adjustment	2
Retention and turnover of teaching staff in a high-quality early childhood network	2
Reliability and validity evidence for the English and Spanish preschool narrative language measures-listening	2
Nonverbal supports for word learning: Prekindergarten teachers’ gesturing practices during shared book reading	2
Early literacy acquisition in logographic orthographies: Evidence from Chinese and Japanese	2
Accountability-driven school reform: are there unintended effects on younger children in untested grades?	2
Data collection and analysis for preschoolers: An engaging context for integrating mathematics and computational thinking with digital tools	2
Exploring predictors and outcomes of racial/ethnic match between children and providers in Early Head Start	2
Family systems and relationships: dyadic and triadic contexts in-the-moment and over time	2
Are translated mathematics items a valid accommodation for dual language learners? Evidence from ECLS-K	2
Research on fathers: pathways to coming of age	2
Sharing in child caring: Does equal parenting involvement moderate the relationship between fathers’ and mothers’ sensitivity and toddlers’ receptive language ability ?	2
Effects of cumulative family risks on school readiness skills: A cross-cultural study between the U.S. and Korea	2
Early Childhood Education Teacher's Beliefs about a Match in Home Language Proficiency with Emergent Bilingual Learners	2
Fixed effect estimates of student-teacher racial or ethnic matching in U.S. elementary schools	2
Supporting and engaging with diverse families during the early years: emerging approaches that matter for children and families	2
Rhythm and movement delivered by teachers supports self-regulation skills of preschool-aged children in disadvantaged communities: A clustered RCT	2
An exploration of robot programming as a foundation for spatial reasoning and computational thinking in preschoolers’ guided play	2
High residential mobility and young children's healthy development in low-income families: Exploring the moderating role of Head Start	2
The reciprocal relationship between vocabulary knowledge and word reading in Chinese primary-school children	2
Comparing center-based with home-based child care: type of care moderates the association between process quality and child functioning	2