OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Early Education and Development is 4. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
STEM Labs: A promising professional learning approach to promote teacher–child interaction quality and science and engineering practices	48
Academics of the Early Primary Grades: Investigating the Alignment of Instructional Practices from Pre-K to Third Grade	30
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	24
Has the COVID-19 Pandemic Widened the Urban-Rural Gap in Early Child Development in China? Evidence from the Rural Side	24
Embedding a Parenting Skills Program in Public PreK: Outcomes of a Quasi-Experimental Mixed Methods Study	24
Teacher-Child Interaction Domains Measured by the CLASS and Children’s Pre-Literacy Skills: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	23
School-Based Early Childhood Education and Children’s Development in Urban Nepal	21
Maternal Failure Mindsets and Parenting Styles: Exploring the Mediating Role of Maternal Attributions of Children’s Academic Failures	18
Intersectional Typologies of Children with Cultural Minority Backgrounds: Relation to School Readiness in Head Start	18
Exploring Chinese Early Childhood Teachers’ Mathematical Belief Profiles and Associated Teacher Characteristics	18
Executive Functioning and Early Math Skills in Young Children at Risk for Mathematical Difficulties: Evaluation of Interventions Efficacy and Transfer Effects	16
Assessing Quality in Classrooms that Blend State Pre-Kindergarten and Head Start Funding: The Case of Michigan	16
A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Effectiveness and Mechanisms of Change in a School-Based Intervention Combining Universal and Indicated Prevention for Preschoolers’ Behavior Problems	16
Associations of Specific Indicators of Adult–Child Interaction Quality and Child Language Outcomes: What Teaching Practices Influence Language?	15
The Educational Technology Divide in Glocalisation: A Perspective for Interpreting Early Childhood Teachers’ Practices of ICT Implementation	15
The Accessibility, Quality, and Administration of Childcare Services for Birth to 3 Years under China’s Universal Two-child Policy	14
Promoting a Person-Centered Approach to Strengthening Early Childhood Practices that Support Social-Emotional Development	14
Self-Regulation and Academic Achievement from Early to Middle Childhood Among Children in Low-Income Neighborhoods	13
The Effect of Ecological Environment on Language-Minority Students’ Math and Reading Development: A Hierarchical Linear Analysis of a Longitudinal Study	13
Validation of the Chinese Empathy Questionnaire for Pre-School Children	13
Socioeconomic Status and Children’s English Language and Literacy Outcomes: The Mediating Role of Home Literacy Environment	12
Preschool Parents’ Views of Distance Learning during COVID-19	12
An examination of the heterogenous nature of literacy development in Spanish-speaking preschool children	12
Measuring Being “Developmentally on Track”: Comparing Direct Assessment and Caregiver Report of Early Childhood Development in Bangladesh, China, India and Myanmar	12
Behavior Management and Engagement During Small-Group Instruction as Predictors of Preschoolers’ Literacy Skill Outcomes	11

Student-Teacher Ethnoracial Matching in the Earliest Grades: Benefits for Executive Function Skills?	11
The Effect of a Sibling Shared Reading Intervention on the Reading Development of Early School-Aged Children in Rural China	11
Exploring the Theory of Preschool Skill Convergence Through a National Survey of Kindergarten Teachers	10
Mapping the Literature to Identify Early Childhood Coaches’ Backgrounds and Training	9
Enhancing Teachers’ Pedagogical Awareness of Teaching Early Mathematical Skills – A Mixed Methods Study of Tailored Professional Development Program	9
Early Childhood Special Education Teachers’ Job Burnout and Psychological Stress	9
Home Environment and Development of English as A Second/Foreign Language for Young Children in Asian Contexts: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis^*	8
Examining the Factor Structure of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System Toddler (CLASS-T) in Early Head Start and Subsidized Child Care Classrooms	8
The Associations of Parental Support with First-Grade Primary School L2 Chinese Learners’ Ideal Selves, Motivation, Engagement, and Reading Test Performance in Hong Kong: A Person-Centered Approach	8
Purposes, Places, and Participants: A Systematic Review of Teacher Language Practices and Child Oral Language Outcomes in Early Childhood Classrooms	8
Relations Between Unsociability, Theory of Mind, and Adjustment Among Kindergartners in China	8
Are Chinese Parents Willing to Have a Second Child? Investigation on the Ideal and Realistic Fertility Willingness of Different Income Family	8
Children’s School Feelings and Adaptation During the Transition From Kindergarten to Primary School in China	8
Stories beyond Books: Teacher Storytelling Supports Children’s Literacy Skills	8
Head Start in Low-Wealth, Rural Communities: Evidence from the Family Life Project	8
Maternal Warmth and Prosocial Behaviors Among Chinese Preschool Children: The Roles of Social Competence Sibling Presence	8
Exploring Links Between Social Competence, Immigrant Background, and Children’s Preschool Adjustment	8
The Effect of Self-Concept and Self-Efficacy on Learning Engagement and Subsequent Reading Performance: The Difference Between L1 and L2 Reading in First-Grade Students	8
Bidirectional Relations among Paired Associate Learning, Language-Specific Skills and Chinese Word Reading in Kindergarten Children	8
Children’s Learning Experiences in Rural Boarding Preschools: Classroom Quality and Associations with Developmental Outcomes	8
Do Servant Leadership and Emotional Labor Matter for Kindergarten Teachers’ Organizational Commitment and Intention to Leave?	8
Does Teacher and Peer Racial/Ethnic Match Play a Role in Preschool Absenteeism?	8
Correction	8
Parental Behaviors and Involvement in Children’s Digital Activities among Israeli Jewish and Arab Families during the COVID-19 Lockdown	8
Translation and Validation of the Chinese Version of the Problematic Media Use Measure	8
Challenges to Relational Commitments of Preschool Staff in Supporting Children in Contexts with a High Proportion of Early Second Language Learners in Sweden	7
The Interplay among Parents’ Stress, Nonparental Childcare, and Child Language Development among Low-Income Toddlers	7
Changes in Early Care and Education Settings Amid COVID-19: Voices of Parents	7
Mothers’ Reactions to Children’s Emotion Expressions in Different Cultural Contexts: Comparisons across Nepal, Korea, and Germany	7
Validating Self-Assessment Measures for Quality of Center-Based Childcare: A Meta-Analysis	6
Socioemotional Competencies of Indonesian Preschoolers: Comparisons between the Pre-Pandemic and Pandemic Periods and among DKI Jakarta, DI Yogyakarta and West Java Provinces	6
Learning Behaviors Mediate Associations between Parent-reported Peer Play Skills and Literacy and Mathematics Skills for Low-income Preschool Children	6
Classrooms are Complex Host Environments: An Integrative Theoretical Measurement Model of the Pre-K to Grade 3 Classroom Ecology	6
Home Learning Environments for Young Children in the U.S. During COVID-19	6
An Initial Investigation of the CIRCLE Infant-Toddler Teacher Training for Toddler Teachers	6
“Let’s Write Each Other Messages”: Association Between Involvement in Writing in a Preschool Online Forum and Early Literacy Progress	6
The Mediating Role of Maternal Psychological Capital on the Relationship between Social Support and Parenting Competence: Evidence from Chinese Mothers	6
The Impact of Block Play on Young Children’s Production of Intrinsic Frame of Reference: A Quasi-Experiment	6
Profiles of Well-Being Among Early Childhood Educators	6
An Exploration of Early Childhood Teachers’ Technology, Pedagogy, and Content Knowledge (TPACK) in Mainland China	6
Developmental Pattern, Latent Profiles, and Family Predictors of Chinese Preschoolers’ Sympathy	5
Chinese Preschool Teachers’ Use of Concept Development Strategies to Elicit Children’s Higher-Order Thinking During Whole-Group Science Teaching	5
Mind Mapping during Interactive Book Reading in Early Childhood Classrooms: Does It Support Young Children’s Language Competence?	5
Stress Intensity and Exhaustion Among Infant and Toddler Teachers: Descriptive Analysis and Associations with Sources of Stress and Coping Strategy Use	5
Teacher Education and the Quality of Teacher-Child Interactions: New Evidence from the Universe of Publicly-Funded Early Childhood Programs in Louisiana	5
Association Between Young Chinese Children’s Early Writing Skills and the Chinese Preschool Classroom Writing Environment	5
Translating Vision into Reality for Early Education & Development	5
Supporting Responsive Caregiving for the Youngest Children: Psychometric Evidence of the Quality of Care for Infants and Toddlers (QCIT) Observational Measure	5
Redshirting for Remediation or Advantage? Which Australian Families Delay Children's School Entry and Why	5
Parent-Grandparent Co-Parenting and preschoolers’ Self-Control in China : The Roles of Maternal and Grandparental Parenting Styles	5

Quality of Caregiver–child Interactions in Early Child Care Centers in Bangladesh: Measurement and Training	5
How Parental Migration Status Affects Early Development of Rural Children: The Indirect Role of Family Socioeconomic Status and Home Environment	5
Embodied and Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) in Early Childhood: Situating Culturally Relevant SEL in Asian, African, and North American Contexts	5
Exploring Gender Disparity in Chinese Children’s Literature: The Impact of Authorship and Narrative Elements	5
Early Childhood Professional Well-being as a Predictor of the Risk of Turnover in Early Head Start & Head Start Settings	4
Relative Contributions of Mothers, Fathers, and Other Caregivers’ Cognitive and Socioemotional Stimulation on Ghanaian Children’s School Readiness	4
Heterogeneity in the Development of Executive Function: Evidence from Nationally Representative Data	4
Why Do Child Care Teachers Leave? Why Do They Stay? – Pre-Pandemic Evidence	4
Examining Child, Family, Classroom, and School Factors Associated with Latinx Children’s Early Science Achievement	4
Does Participation Benefit Children’s Socio-Emotional Development? Positive Associations Between Children’s Participation and Self-Concept, Through Children’s Perceptions	4
The Influence of Context on the Abstraction Level of Children’s Conversations in the Preschool Classroom	4
Social–Emotional Competence as a Predictor of Early Numeracy Skills	4
Kindergarten Teachers’ Emotional Labor and Occupational Well-Being: How Do Different Interpersonal Relationships Matter?	4
A Randomized Controlled Trial of an Emotion Socialization Intervention in Norwegian Kindergartens	4
How Early Digital Experience Shapes Young Brains During 0-12 Years: A Scoping Review	4
Self-Regulation Scaffolding Behaviors of Teachers in Chilean Preschool Classrooms	4
Mind-sets in Early Childhood: The Relations Among Growth Mindset, Engagement and Well-Being Among First Grade Students	4
Influences of Gender and Socioeconomic Status on Children’s Use of Robotics in Early Childhood Education: A Systematic Review	4
Aladdin’s Genie or Pandora’s Box for Early Childhood Education? Experts Chat on the Roles, Challenges, and Developments of ChatGPT	4
Maternal Control Strategies and Social Functioning in Chinese Preschoolers: The Moderating Effect of Child Surgency	4
Preschool Education Demand in China by 2035: A Prediction Analysis	4
Media Use in Daily Routines and Young Children’s Social Skills	4
Nurturing Preschool Children’s Social Skills and Reducing Behavioral Difficulties Through Teacher Practices: The Answer of the Incredible Years Classroom Management Programme	4
Parenting Styles and Social Competence in Chinese Preschoolers: A Moderated Mediation Model of Singleton and Self-regulation	4
How Do Combinations of Transition Activities Available to Children and Families Predict Successful Kindergarten Transitions?	4
Shared-Reading Onset and Emergent Literacy Development	4