Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Papers
(The median citation count of Early Childhood Research Quarterly is 2. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
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The association between family relationship patterns and preschoolers’ social and behavioral competence in Chinese urban families40
A pilot study of a micro-course to promote positive teaching practices and prevent exclusionary discipline in early childhood38
Asian and Asian American early educators’ racial discrimination experiences and student well-being during COVID-19: A moderated mediation model37
Identifying effective strategies to instruct parents during parent-implemented intervention: The role of parent practice with feedback35
Fathers, faith, and family gender messages: Are religiosity and gender talk related to children's gender attitudes and preferences?33
First do no harm: How teachers support or undermine children's self-regulation30
Mother-father relationships and child social-emotional adjustment: Mediation through maternal and paternal parenting29
Toxic pathways: Exploring the impacts of vicarious and environmental racism on black youth in early childhood28
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Advancing equitable access to high quality early childhood education through a trauma- and resilience-informed community schools approach27
Are family-teacher communication quality and child and family characteristics associated with head start children's classroom engagement? It's complicated25
Sharing in child caring: Does equal parenting involvement moderate the relationship between fathers’ and mothers’ sensitivity and toddlers’ receptive language ability ?23
Text to talk: Effects of a home-school vocabulary texting intervention on prekindergarten vocabulary23
Measuring preschool children's engagement behaviors during classroom shared reading: Construct and concurrent validity of the shared reading engagement rating scale22
From preschool to politics: Early socialization in Tulsa22
Supporting the understanding of cardinal number knowledge in preschoolers: Evidence from instructional practices based on finger patterns22
Talking, praising and teaching: How parent interaction during a learning task relates to children's early learning21
A meta-analysis of teacher language practices in early childhood classrooms21
Different settings, different patterns of impacts: Effects of a Pre-K math intervention in a mixed-delivery system19
Profiles of home language experiences of Spanish-English dual language learners in migrant and seasonal head start programs19
“They felt the safe space”: Practitioner experiences of delivering Mellow Babies, a targeted, early intervention program for parents and their babies19
Measuring resilience in young children: The Child and Youth Resilience Measure- Early Childhood (CYRM-EC)18
Student-teacher conflict or student-school conflict? Exploring bidirectional relationships between externalizing behavior and teacher conflict18
My child lags behind: Parents’ perceptions of children's needs for language support, their home-literacy practices, and children's language skills17
Examining the relationship between discrimination, access to material resources, and black children's behavioral functioning during COVID-1917
#MathActivities on #SocialMedia: Examining content, design, and alignment with mathematical cognition research17
Why is ECE enrollment so complicated? An analysis of barriers and co-created solutions from the frontlines17
Policies addressing suspension and expulsion in state early care and education subsystems: A national census of policy alignment and integration16
Attachment configurations to mothers and fathers during infancy predict compliance, defiance, and effortful control in toddlerhood16
The role of friends in the development of children’s classroom behavioral engagement and peer acceptance in kindergarten: A dyadic approach16
Monitoring early childhood development at the population level: The ECDI203016
Political prioritization of early childhood education during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparative policy analysis of low- and middle-income countries16
To excel and to be happy: Parenting behaviors, parenting stress, and sociocultural contexts in Dutch and urban Chinese families16
Understanding associations between early social-emotional screening status and primary school children´s social-emotional well-being in Finland16
Participation of early care and education centers in the child care subsidy system: A statewide mixed methods investigation15
Paternal mind-mindedness and child executive functioning in the kindergarten classroom15
Transitions in patterns of caregiver involvement before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A latent transition analysis15
“It is almost impossible to get a spot when you need it”: Understanding parental knowledge and experiences of Canada’s new child care policy promoting access to quality early childhood education and c15
Strategies, recommendations, and validation of remote executive function tasks for use with young children15
Effects of online parent coaching on Filipino children's skills15
Can the sustaining environments hypothesis be sustained? Testing moderation of sustained public preschool benefits by kindergarten classroom quality14
Supporting and engaging with diverse families during the early years: emerging approaches that matter for children and families14
Retention and turnover of teaching staff in a high-quality early childhood network14
Parent and teacher ratings of Spanish-speaking Latino preschoolers’ behaviors: Validation of the Spanish parent and English teacher Conner's early childhood short forms14
When Ebony and Malik share stories in school: White teachers’ perceptions of children's use of African American English during oral storytelling14
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 quality14
Home literacy environment and Chinese Children’s second language development: A cross-lagged analysis14
The development and prediction of young children's behavioral mastery motivation13
You Do You[Tube]!The multifaceted roles of online video viewing in the lives of U.S. children13
Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the child care sector: Evidence from North Carolina13
The sound of self-regulation: Music program relates to an advantage for children at risk13
Gesture like a kitten and you won't forget your tale: Drama-based, embodied story time supports preschoolers’ narrative skills13
‘What do YOU think?’: Children's questions, teacher's responses and children's follow-up across diverse preschool settings13
Child care use, preferences and access constraints among Native American, immigrant, refugee and Spanish-speaking families in New Mexico12
Procrastination in early childhood: Associations with self-regulation, negative affectivity, and the home environment12
Differences between Pre-K and Kindergarten classroom experiences: do they predict children's social-emotional skills and self-regulation across the transition to kindergarten?12
Effects of training parents in dialogic book‐sharing: The Early‐Years Provision in Children's Centers (EPICC) study12
Effects of using video-based coaching to promote preservice teachers’ interactional skills in Chinese preschool classrooms12
Advice networks in early childhood education: Predicting teachers’ workplace experiences over time12
The effects of a high quality state-run preschool program as rated by a Quality Rating and Improvement System on children's school readiness12
Development of children's informal understanding of division through sharing: Contributions of reasoning demands and problem situations12
Gender equity and motivational readiness for computational thinking in early childhood12
Teacher language quality in preschool classrooms: Examining associations with DLLs' oral language skills12
Does age moderate the influence of early life language experiences? A Naturalistic home observation study12
Pathways from marital relationships to children's social-emotional development in Korea: The role of parenting and social support12
Potential moderators of the association between parental psychological distress and perceived child externalizing behaviors12
What a cool classroom! Voices of 5-year-olds on the design of physical learning environments12
Close to home: Family-centered spatial analysis of access to early care and education12
Where has all the time gone? Describing time use in full- vs. half-day pre-Kindergarten11
Increasing access in the ECE enrollment process: Evidence from an information intervention in New Orleans11
Contributions of shared book reading to children's learning of new semantic facts through memory integration11
Examining the child observation in preschool and teacher observation in preschool in community-based child care centers11
Teacher turnover and residential instability: Exploring joint and contextual associations with child behavior11
Parent predictors of the home math environment and associations with toddlers’ math skills11
Hypotheses in adult-child interactions stimulate children's reasoning and verbalizations11
Associations between school characteristics and learning gains for pre-K attenders and non-attenders: Important constructs, limited evidence10
Classroom social network antecedents of relational aggression and victimization for kindergarten children10
Parental sensitivity and intrusiveness in gay-, lesbian-, and heterosexual-parent families with infants conceived using artificial reproductive techniques: Do parents’ gender and caregiver role matter10
Cognitively engaging physical activity has an immediate impact on preschool children's executive function10
Early intervention of language and behavior in monolingual and bilingual preschoolers with Developmental Language Disorders10
Promotion of early childhood development and mental health in quality rating and improvement systems for early care and education: A review of state quality indicators10
Mathematics in U.S. Preschool and Kindergarten Classrooms10
Adding family math to the equation: Promoting Head Start preschoolers’ mathematics learning at home and school10
The mixed-delivery pre-k opportunity gap? Differences in demographics, quality, and children's gains in community-based versus public school programs across five large-scale systems10
Examining the effects of an infant-toddler school readiness intervention in center- and family-based programs: Are results generalizable?10
Widely used measures of classroom quality are largely unrelated to preschool skill development9
Stability of parenting profiles in early childhood for African American children in households experiencing poverty9
Maternal and paternal insensitivity, adaptive engagement, and school readiness skills among economically disadvantaged children: A dynamic approach9
Preterm birth and expressive language development across the first 5 years of life: A nationally-representative longitudinal path analysis9
Reciprocal effects between phonological processing skills and Chinese word reading in kindergarten children: A longitudinal cross-lagged study9
Cultural and contextual understanding of parent engagement among Latine parents of pre-K children in low-income neighborhoods: The role of immigration enforcement threat, parent health and sociodemogr9
Reliability and validity evidence for the English and Spanish preschool narrative language measures-listening9
Exploring the role of educator personality on structural and process quality in early childhood education and care settings9
Maternal and paternal parenting stress: Direct and interactive associations with child externalizing and internalizing behavior problems9
Extra help for extra needs: Family perspectives on New Mexico's supplemental child care subsidy program for families at risk for involvement with child protective services9
Parenting programs in the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region: A multilevel meta-analysis9
When bigger looks better: CLASS results in public Montessori preschool classrooms8
Does screen exposure necessarily relate to behavior problems? The buffering roles of emotion regulation and caregiver companionship8
A sociometric approach to understanding characteristics of same- and other-gender friendships in young children8
Associations between preschool quality and children's social-emotional development until 2nd grade of elementary school8
Guest editorial: Advancing our understanding of demographic (Mis)match in early childhood education8
Urban-rural achievement gap in low- and middle-income countries: The role of early childhood education8
Best practices for designing and reporting caregiver training in early childhood mathematics interventions8
Quality and inequality in pre-primary and home environment inputs to early childhood development in Egypt8
Early childhood predictors of black children's achievement: Home, early care and education, and neighborhood contexts8
The contribution of inhibitory control to early literacy skills in 4‐ to 5‐year‐old children8
Linking professional development to classroom quality: Differences by ECE sector8
Vocabulary size predicts behavioral problems in emotionally reactive children8
Exploring the relation between early childhood education and historical and contemporary racism and bias for Black children8
Expanding access to high-quality early care and education for families with low income in Maryland through child care subsidy policies8
An initial yet rigorous test of multisensory alphabet instruction for english monolingual and emergent bilingual children8
Accommodating life's demands: Childcare choices for student parents in higher education8
COVID-19 and early childhood education: Implications for research, practice, and policy8
Experiences of child care providers serving subsidy-receiving children involved in the child protective services system: Implications for equitable access8
The Interrelations between home numeracy activities, children's attitudes toward mathematics, and their mathematics achievement7
Classroom age composition and preschoolers’ language and literacy gains: The role of classroom engagement7
The impact of social pretend play on preschoolers’ social development: Results of an experimental study7
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Teacher-child racial/ethnic match from prekindergarten through first grade: Understanding early exposure and outcomes7
Program-wide implementation of the Pyramid Model: Supporting fidelity at the program and classroom levels7
Child social-emotional and behavioral problems and competencies contribute to changes in developmental functioning during Early Intervention7
Exploring invariance of the measurement and prediction of ADHD behaviors in Latino children7
A word about probability: Do general and specific vocabulary knowledge predict probabilistic reasoning in young children?7
A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of coaching and the contribution of coaching processes to learning outcomes for early childhood teachers and children7
A director like me: Teacher-leader racial/ethnic match and job outcomes in child care centers7
Early Childhood Teachers of Color in New York City: heightened stress, lower quality of life, declining health, and compromised sleep amidst COVID-197
Big little leap: The role of transition difficulties in children's skill development during kindergarten6
Classroom chaos and program quality in early child care and education programs: A study from Turkey6
Evidence-based educational interventions to reduce intergroup bias among young children in conflict zones6
Cortisol across preschool day relates to teacher ratings of executive functioning for children facing economic hardship6
Payment rates and the stability of subsidized child care: Evidence from Minnesota's child care assistance program6
Implementation of a comprehensive state effort to reduce exclusionary discipline in early care and education settings: Arkansas's policy6
Classrooms with high rates of absenteeism and individual success: Exploring students’ achievement, executive function, and socio-behavioral outcomes6
An ecological perspective on early educator well-being at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic6
Efficacy and perception of feasibility of structured games for achieving curriculum learning goals in pre-kindergarten and kindergarten low-income classrooms6
Positive deviance in the Oregon kindergarten assessment: Identifying schools and communities that are beating the odds6
Barriers to early childhood education for Black families and calls for equitable solutions from a qualitative study using peer researchers and an antiracist lens6
Effects of the MMCI course and coaching on pre-service ECE teachers’ beliefs, knowledge, and skill6
The association between maternal social information processing and preschool children social and learning problems via maternal insightfulness and children's social information processing6
The gender gap in early language development among children from peri-urban China6
Inequality in access to early childhood care and education programs among 3- to 4-year-olds: Trends and variations across low- and middle-income countries6
Child care tradeoffs among Massachusetts mothers6
Self-regulation mediates the relations between family factors and preschool readiness6
Preschool teachers’ language-related pedagogical beliefs and their relation to observed classroom quality6
A peer-mediated approach to support emergent bilingual preschoolers6
Are food and nutrition assistance programs fostering an equitable early care and education (ECE) food environment? A systematic review utilizing the RE-AIM framework6
Interactions between child temperament and family environment in relation to school readiness: Diathesis-stress, differential susceptibility, or vantage sensitivity?6
Consultative roles of early childhood special education teachers: A modeler, an advisor, and a spontaneous practitioner6
Associations of smartphone and tablet use in early childhood with psychosocial, cognitive and sleep factors: a systematic review and meta-analysis6
Profiles of home language environment in Head Start classrooms: Patterns and associated developmental skills for Spanish-English dual language learners6
Parents’ epistemological beliefs to children's early numeracy abilities: Pathways through parents’ home practices and children's numeracy interest6
Through the lens of early educators: Understanding the use of expulsion and suspension in childcare programs6
Self-regulation development among young Spanish-English dual language learners5
Non-contact time implementation in early childhood center-based programs: A mixed methods study5
Following the leader: Associations between leader support and teacher retention in child care settings5
Effect of the timing of initial exposure to maternal depression on children's school readiness5
Interrogating the role of anti-Blackness in the early care and education experiences of Black children and families: A call for advancing equitable science and practice5
Challenges in the transition to kindergarten and children's well-being through elementary school: Do school transition supports matter?5
Relations between caregivers’ emotion regulation strategies, parenting styles, and preschoolers’ emotional competence in Chinese parenting and grandparenting5
A machine learning approach to identifying non-parental caregivers' risk for harsh caregiving towards infants in daycare centers5
Teacher-child relationship quality and kindergarten outcomes: The moderating role of classroom activity settings5
An investigation into the concreteness of manipulatives in mathematical instruction: Do the object and its label matter?5
Reducing childcare subsidy instability through eligibility period extensions: Equity impacts of 12-month recertification requirements5
Impacts of two public preschool programs on school readiness in San Francisco5
Racism under the skin: Connecting the dots between the threats of structural inequities and the biological embedding of adversity5
Equitable use of subsidized child care in Georgia5
Direct and interactive effects of attendance rates on growth in language, literacy and mathematics skills for children enrolled in voluntary preschool programs5
Training on number comparison, but not number line estimation, improves preschoolers’ symbolic approximate arithmetic5
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Fostering healthy social and emotional climates in early childhood classrooms through infant and early childhood mental health consultation5
Another case of the theory to practice gap: South Korean early childhood education and care5
Adverse childhood experiences, stress, and resilience among early childhood teachers5
Mission FEEL! A novel emotion understanding intervention for preschoolers: A proof-of-concept study5
Reading with 1–2 year olds impacts academic achievement at 8–11 years5
Advancing research on equitable access to early care and education in the United States5
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Effects of cumulative family risks on school readiness skills: A cross-cultural study between the U.S. and Korea4
Associations of state-funded prekindergarten with early elementary literacy and absences4
Home food practices and Latino kindergarteners’ academic skills4
Broadening understanding of executive function in children with different hearing histories: The roles of fathers and coparenting4
Supportive language strategies for preschool dual language learners: Associations with early language outcomes4
Exploring an early numeracy screening measure for English learners in primary grades4
Parental early math support: The role of parental knowledge about early math development4
Cluster randomized controlled trial of a phone-based caregiver support and parenting program for Syrian and Jordanian families with young children4
Book sharing and reminiscing: Caregivers’ conversational style and children's language and literacy development in low-income Costa Rican families4
Exploring home visitors’ use and perceptions of developmental monitoring: A mixed methods study4
Impacts of the beginning education: early childcare at home (BEECH) program for family child care providers and young children4
Latine Caregivers’ Approaches to Engaging Young Children in Mathematics4
Impacts of COVID-19 on the early care and education sector in California: Variations across program types4
Introduction to the Supplemental Issue: Advancing developmental science on the impact of racism in the early years4
Family systems and relationships: dyadic and triadic contexts in-the-moment and over time4
Can peers help sustain the positive effects of an early childhood mathematics intervention?4
Parent time investments in their children's learning during a policy-mandated shutdown: parent, child, and household influences4
Both sides of the screen: Predictors of parents’ and teachers’ depression and food insecurity during COVID-19-related distance learning3
Impacts of the four-day school week on early elementary achievement3
Teacher attunement to preschool children's peer preferences: Associations with child and classroom-level variables3
Supporting Spanish-English DLLs in Head Start: Peer Language Match, Instructional Language Match, and Emotional Support as Predictors of Approaches to Learning and Social Skills3
Home mathematics environment and math performance of Chilean students in kindergarten and Grades 1 to 33
Embedded instruction for young children with disabilities: A systematic review and meta-analysis of single-case experimental research studies3
Latine caregiver math talk across contexts and its relation to child math outcomes3
Multidimensional patterns of early care and education access through a family centered lens3
Consistent routines matter: Child routines mediated the association between interparental functioning and school readiness3
Introduction to Special Issue Contributions of father-child relationship to children's development within the larger family system: A focus on observational measures3
Validating a measure of growing pattern understanding in Chinese preschool children3
Can positive school climate ameliorate racial-ethnic disparities in pre-kindergarten quality? Evidence from a large urban school district3
The role of full- and half-day preschool attendance in the formation of children's social networks3
Relational uncertainty: Does parental perception of adopted children's academic success change over time?3
The Head Start teacher paradox: Working conditions, whole well-being, and classroom quality3
Impact of the Chicago universal pre-kindergarten expansion: Effects on pre-kindergarten capacity and enrollment and implications for equity3
When kids be talkin’ Black: White educators’ beliefs about the effects of African American English on young children's achievement3
Scientific inquiry of race, ethnicity, and racial inequality in Early Childhood Research Quarterly3
Family engagement in early learning opportunities at home and in early childhood education centers in Colombia3
Content-rich instruction and cognitive demand in prek: using systematic observations to predict child gains3
Home language use with children, dialogue with multilingual parents and professional development in ECEC3
Parent child directed speech in dyadic and triadic interaction: Associations with co-parenting dynamics and child language outcomes3
American and Chinese parents’ math talk during numeracy and routine activities: Do parental beliefs matter?3
“We need to prepare and adjust”: The school readiness beliefs and practices of Korean families with preschool-aged children3
Coding as another language: Research-based curriculum for early childhood computer science3
The relationship between child-centered teaching attitudes in childcare centers and the socio-emotional development of Japanese toddlers3
Variations in the home language environment and early language development in a peri-urban community in China3
Understanding the wellbeing of early educators in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic: Lessons from Louisiana2
Research on fathers: pathways to coming of age2
Blame, shame, and rejection: Families’ experiences with preschool suspension and expulsion2
The role of language in the association between theory of mind and executive functioning in early childhood: New longitudinal evidence2
One size does not fit all: Associations between child characteristics, differential treatment of children by educators and quality in child care centers2
Scaffolding young children's computational thinking with teacher talk in a technology-mediated classroom2
The role of the traditional and digital home literacy environment in Chinese Kindergartners’ language and early literacy2
Latent classes of early childhood development and their predictors in Low- and middle-income countries: Results from multiple indicator cluster surveys 2010 - 20202
Outcomes associated with school mobility from public school Pre-K to kindergarten2
Hard-to-staff centers: Exploring center-level variation in the persistence of child care teacher turnover2
Systems approaches for uncovering mechanisms of structural racism impacting children's environmental health and development2
Designing culturally situated playful environments for early STEM learning with a Latine community2
A teacher's choice: Preschool teachers’ selection and use of picture books for mathematics instruction2
Learning experiences vary across young children in the same classroom: evidence from the individualizing student instruction measure in the Boston Public Schools2
How are Early Head Start teachers’ professional development experiences associated with their work-related stress and qualities of teacher-child interactions?2
Rhythm and movement delivered by teachers supports self-regulation skills of preschool-aged children in disadvantaged communities: A clustered RCT2
Computational thinking in early childhood education: The impact of programming a tangible robot on developing debugging knowledge2
Context matters: The importance of investigating random effects in hierarchical models for early childhood education researchers2
Preschool children's engagement with a social robot compared to a human instructor2
Lead teacher, assistant teacher, and peer racial/ethnic match and child outcomes for Black children enrolled in enhanced high-quality early care and education programs2
Kindergarten academic and social skills and exposure to peers with pre-kindergarten experience2
The link between hours of center-based childcare and child development in 3- to 6-year-olds: Evidence from Singapore2
Teaching spanish‐speaking caregivers to implement EMT en Español: a small randomized trial2
The impacts of Abecedarian and Head Start on educational attainment: Reasoning about unobserved mechanisms from temporal patterns of indirect effects2
Phonological processing and spatial attention contribute to mathematics performance in different ways: A 3-year longitudinal study2
Evidence of the Effectiveness of a Home Visiting Model in Rural Communities: Early Steps to School Success2
Pandemic-related threats and well-being: A longitudinal study of preschool teachers in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic2
Investigating the association between professional development and educators’ beliefs in U.S. center- and home-based early childhood education2
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