OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Early Education and Development is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Parents’ Views on Young Children’s Distance Learning and Screen Time During COVID-19 Class Suspension in Hong Kong	131
When Fulfillment is Not Enough: Early Childhood Teacher Occupational Burnout and Turnover Intentions from a Job Demands and Resources Perspective	72
STEM Education in Early Childhood: A Review of Empirical Studies	45
Preschool Parents’ Views of Distance Learning during COVID-19	42
Teacher’s Role in Fostering Preschoolers’ Computational Thinking: An Exploratory Case Study	36
Relations between Kindergarten Teachers’ Occupational Well-being and the Quality of Teacher-child Interactions	34
The Interplay among Early Childhood Teachers’ Social and Emotional Well-Being, Mental Health Consultation, and Preschool Expulsion	33
Work Climate in Early Care and Education and Teachers’ Stress: Indirect Associations through Emotion Regulation	31
Burnout and Teacher–Child Interactions: The Moderating Influence of SEL Interventions in Head Start Classrooms	30
Preschool Teachers’ Emotional Exhaustion in Relation to Classroom Instruction and Teacher-child Interactions	29
STEM for Inclusive Excellence and Equity	28
Online Learning and Parent Satisfaction during COVID-19: Child Competence in Independent Learning as a Moderator	26
Social Emotional Learning for Teachers (SELF-T): A Short-term, Online Intervention to Increase Early Childhood Educators’ Resilience	25
Home Learning Environments for Young Children in the U.S. During COVID-19	22
Chinese Parents’ Scaffolding and Children’s Initiative in Mother–Child and Father–Child Interactions across Different Types of Problem-solving Activities	21
Reflective Supervision/Consultation and Early Childhood Professionals’ Well-Being: A Qualitative Analysis of Supervisors’ Perspectives	21
Everyday Heroes: The Personal and Economic Stressors of Early Care and Education Teachers Serving Low-Income Children	20
“Once Upon A Star”: A Science Education Program Based on Personification Storytelling in Promoting Preschool Children’s Understanding of Astronomy Concepts	20
Mindfulness for Preschoolers: Effects on Prosocial Behavior, Self-Regulation and Perspective Taking	18
Embodied and Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) in Early Childhood: Situating Culturally Relevant SEL in Asian, African, and North American Contexts	17
Using an Inquiry-Based Science and Engineering Program to Promote Science Knowledge, Problem-Solving Skills and Approaches to Learning in Preschool Children	17
Introduction to the Special Issue on Early Care and Education Professionals’ Social and Emotional Well-being	17
Special Issue: Narrowing the Digital Divide in Early Childhood: Technological Advances and Curriculum Reforms	16
Influences of Gender and Socioeconomic Status on Children’s Use of Robotics in Early Childhood Education: A Systematic Review	16
An Analysis of the Nature of Young Students’ STEM Learning in 3D Technology-Enhanced Makerspaces	15

Promoting Preschoolers’ Mental-Emotional Conceptualization and Social Understanding: A Shared Book-Reading Study	14
Early Sources of Children’s Math Achievement in Chile: The Role of Parental Beliefs and Feelings about Math	14
Academics of the Early Primary Grades: Investigating the Alignment of Instructional Practices from Pre-K to Third Grade	14
Stability and Change in Early Social Skills Development in Relation to Early School Performance: A Longitudinal Study of A Swedish Cohort	14
Enacting Content-rich Curriculum in Early Childhood: The Role of Teacher Knowledge and Pedagogy	13
Family Environment Profile in China and Its Relation to Family Structure and Young Children’s Social Competence	13
Developing Culturally and Developmentally Appropriate Early STEM Learning Experiences	13
Promoting Social Pretend Play in Preschool Age: Is Providing Roleplay Material Enough?	13
Teacher-Level Predictors of the Fidelity of Implementation of a Social-Emotional Learning Curriculum	13
Parenting Styles and Social Competence in Chinese Preschoolers: A Moderated Mediation Model of Singleton and Self-regulation	12
Profiles and Predictors of Young Children’s Digital Literacy and Multimodal Practices in Central China	12
Early Childhood Special Education Teachers’ Job Burnout and Psychological Stress	12
Moral Reasoning and Moral Behavior: Intersections of Reasoning with Aggressive Forms and Functions in Early Childhood	12
“I‘m Literally Drowning”: A Mixed-Methods Exploration of Infant-Toddler Child Care Providers’ Wellbeing	11
With Awareness Comes Competency: The Five Awarenesses of Teaching as a Framework for Understanding Teacher Social-Emotional Competency and Well-being	11
An Exploratory Study about Patterns of Parental Home Literacy Activities during the COVID-19 Confinement among Spanish Families	11
Parental Behaviors and Involvement in Children’s Digital Activities among Israeli Jewish and Arab Families during the COVID-19 Lockdown	11
Exploring the Links between Unsociability, Parenting Behaviors, and Socio-Emotional Functioning in Young Children in Suburban China	11
Parental Stress and Home Activities for Young Children during the Stay-at-home Quarantine Time in China	10
Aladdin’s Genie or Pandora’s Box for Early Childhood Education? Experts Chat on the Roles, Challenges, and Developments of ChatGPT	10
Improving Early Care and Education Professionals’ Teaching Self-Efficacy and Well-Being: A Mixed Methods Exploratory Study	10
¿Read Conmigo?: The Effect of Code-switching Storybooks on Dual-Language Learners’ Retention of New Vocabulary	10
The Impact of Two-Child Policy on Early Education and Development in China	9
Family SES and Self-Regulated Learning in Chinese Preschoolers: A Mediation Analysis of Parental Educational Expectation and Home-based Involvement	9
The Effects of COVID-19 on Young Children’s and Their Parents’ Activities at Home	9
Stories beyond Books: Teacher Storytelling Supports Children’s Literacy Skills	9
Teacher and Classroom Predictors of Preschool Teacher Stress	8
Relations Among Low-Income Preschool Children’s Self-Regulation, Marginal Food Security, and Parent Stress	8
Mothers’ Reactions to Children’s Emotion Expressions in Different Cultural Contexts: Comparisons across Nepal, Korea, and Germany	8
The Cognitive Benefits of Participating in Structured Sports for Preschoolers	8
Early Childhood Professional Well-being as a Predictor of the Risk of Turnover in Early Head Start & Head Start Settings	8
Preschoolers’ Profiles of Self-regulation, Social-emotional and Behavior Skills and Its Prediction for a Successful Behavior Adaptation during the Transitional Period from Preschool to Elementary Scho	8
Summer Preschools for Syrian Refugee and Host Community Children in Turkey: A Model of Contextually Sensitive Early Intervention	8
Exploring the Role of Play Behaviors in the Links between Preschoolers’ Shyness and Teacher-Child Relationships	8
Pathways to Low-Income Children’s Self-Regulation: Child Temperament and the Qualities of Teacher–Child Relationships	8
Exploring Barriers to Early Childhood Teachers’ Implementation of a Supplemental Academic Language Curriculum	7
Rate of Growth of Preschool-Age Children’s Oral Language and Decoding Skills Predicts Beginning Writing Ability	7
An Exploration of Early Childhood Teachers’ Technology, Pedagogy, and Content Knowledge (TPACK) in Mainland China	7
Socio-Emotional Learning among Low-Income Prekindergarteners: The Roles of Individual Factors and Early Intervention	7
Social Mastery Motivation Mediates the Link between Parental Responsiveness and Children’s Social-emotional Competence	7
Refugee Children’s Early Development during Attendance of Specialized Preschool Programs and Transition into First Grade in Germany	7
The Role of Home Literacy Practices in Kindergarten Children’s Early Writing Development: A One-Year Longitudinal Study	7
Exploring the Relationships between Scientific Epistemic Beliefs, Science Teaching Beliefs and Science-Specific PCK among Pre-Service Kindergarten Teachers in China	7
Measuring Being “Developmentally on Track”: Comparing Direct Assessment and Caregiver Report of Early Childhood Development in Bangladesh, China, India and Myanmar	7
Family Cohesion Facilitates Learning-Related Behaviors and Math Competency at the Transition to Elementary School	7
Teacher–child Interaction and Preschoolers’ Learning Behavior in China: A Piecewise Growth Model	7
Effects of Household and Environmental Adversity on Indices of Self-Regulation for Latino and African American Preschool Children: Closing the School Readiness Gap	7
Using Number Games to Support Mathematical Learning in Preschool and Home Environments	7
Home Environment and Development of English as A Second/Foreign Language for Young Children in Asian Contexts: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis^*	7
Family Literacy Activities and Their Interplay with Family and Preschool Language Environments: Links to Gains in Dual Language Learners’ German Vocabulary	7

SES, Relative Deprivation, Perceived Kindergarten Support and Turnover Intention in Chinese Teachers during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Moderated Mediation Model	6
Shared-Reading Onset and Emergent Literacy Development	6
The Accessibility, Quality, and Administration of Childcare Services for Birth to 3 Years under China’s Universal Two-child Policy	6
“I Love This Story!” Examining Parent-Child Interactions during Storybook Reading	6
Structural and Process Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care Provisions in Poland and the Netherlands: A Cross-National Study Using Cluster Analysis	6
The Benefits of Buddies: Strategically Pairing Preschoolers with Other-Gender Classmates Promotes Positive Peer Interactions	6
Are Chinese Parents Willing to Have a Second Child? Investigation on the Ideal and Realistic Fertility Willingness of Different Income Family	6
Preschool Education Demand in China by 2035: A Prediction Analysis	6
Meeting 24-hour movement behavior guidelines in young children: Improved quantity estimation and self-regulation	5
How are Preservice Early Childhood Professionals’ Mindfulness, Reflective Practice Beliefs, and Individual Characteristics Associated with Their Developmentally Supportive Responses to Infants and Tod	5
Scotland Embarks on a National Outdoor Play Initiative: Educator Perspectives	5
Mothers’ Sophisticated Vocabulary Input and Children’s Story Comprehension	5
Multiple Approaches for Assessing Within-Day Stability in Teacher-Child Interactions	5
Purposes, Places, and Participants: A Systematic Review of Teacher Language Practices and Child Oral Language Outcomes in Early Childhood Classrooms	5
Examining Early Composing: Children’s Differential Writing Performance Based on Task Context and Scoring Conceptualization	5
School Readiness Beliefs of Dominican and Salvadoran Immigrant Parents	5
Nudging Early Educators’ Knowledge, Beliefs, and Practices: An Embedded Randomized Controlled Trial of Text Message Supports	5
I Can Succeed for Preschools: A Randomized Control Trial of a New Social-emotional Learning Program	5
Parental Acculturation Attitudes: Direct and Indirect Impacts on Children’s Second Language Acquisition	5
Children’s Connectedness with Siblings and Friends from Early to Middle Childhood during Play	5
Mind Mapping during Interactive Book Reading in Early Childhood Classrooms: Does It Support Young Children’s Language Competence?	5
Children’s School Feelings and Adaptation During the Transition From Kindergarten to Primary School in China	5
Profiles of Approaches to Learning and the Relationship with Academic School Readiness in Chinese Preschoolers	5
Transition Practices of Rural Pre-K and Kindergarten Teachers and Their Relations to Children’s Academic and Social Skills	5
Teachers’ Emotional Expressiveness and Coping Reactions to Students’ Emotions: Associations with Students’ Social-Emotional Competences and School Adjustment	5
Associations between Consistent and High-quality Teacher-child Interactions and Preschool Children’s Self-regulation and Activity in the Stress Response System	5
Preschool Children’s Use of Digital Devices and Early Development in Hong Kong: The Role of Family Socioeconomic Status	5
Measuring Parental Literacy Beliefs in a Socio-Economically, Linguistically and Ethnically Diverse Sample	5
Moral Stories and Young Children’s Confession of Misdeeds in Relation to Their Perception of Honesty and Its Consequences	5