Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Article	Citations
A pilot study of a micro-course to promote positive teaching practices and prevent exclusionary discipline in early childhood	53
Editorial Board	49
Identifying effective strategies to instruct parents during parent-implemented intervention: The role of parent practice with feedback	37
Scaling high quality: An implementation study of Boston’s Universal Pre-K expansion to community-based programs	37
Asian and Asian American early educators’ racial discrimination experiences and student well-being during COVID-19: A moderated mediation model	35
Mother-father relationships and child social-emotional adjustment: Mediation through maternal and paternal parenting	34
Supporting teachers to enact science talk in early elementary classrooms: The role of professional learning and curriculum	32
“They felt the safe space”: Practitioner experiences of delivering Mellow Babies, a targeted, early intervention program for parents and their babies	30
#MathActivities on #SocialMedia: Examining content, design, and alignment with mathematical cognition research	30
The association between family relationship patterns and preschoolers’ social and behavioral competence in Chinese urban families	30
The role of friends in the development of children’s classroom behavioral engagement and peer acceptance in kindergarten: A dyadic approach	30
Student-teacher conflict or student-school conflict? Exploring bidirectional relationships between externalizing behavior and teacher conflict	28
Why is ECE enrollment so complicated? An analysis of barriers and co-created solutions from the frontlines	27
My child lags behind: Parents’ perceptions of children's needs for language support, their home-literacy practices, and children's language skills	25
To excel and to be happy: Parenting behaviors, parenting stress, and sociocultural contexts in Dutch and urban Chinese families	25
Measuring preschool children's engagement behaviors during classroom shared reading: Construct and concurrent validity of the shared reading engagement rating scale	21
Concerted cultivation, parent-child closeness, and young children’s school readiness in China: An actor-partner interdependence moderation model	21
From preschool to politics: Early socialization in Tulsa	21
Profiles of home language experiences of Spanish-English dual language learners in migrant and seasonal head start programs	21
Advancing equitable access to high quality early childhood education through a trauma- and resilience-informed community schools approach	21
A randomized controlled trial of HighScope’s teacher professional learning on preschoolers' executive function skills	20
Mediating role of parent-teacher cocaring relationships in the associations between teacher-child relationships and parenting stress in Early Head Start	20
Are family-teacher communication quality and child and family characteristics associated with head start children's classroom engagement? It's complicated	19
Toxic pathways: Exploring the impacts of vicarious and environmental racism on black youth in early childhood	19
Examining the relationship between discrimination, access to material resources, and black children's behavioral functioning during COVID-19	19

Measuring resilience in young children: The Child and Youth Resilience Measure- Early Childhood (CYRM-EC)	19
Developmental health and vulnerability among young children in Pakistan: Findings from a large-scale early childhood development assessment in Karachi	19
Monitoring early childhood development at the population level: The ECDI2030	19
Leading with confidence: QRIS participation and site leaders’ confidence, well-being, and quality improvement	18
Talking, praising and teaching: How parent interaction during a learning task relates to children's early learning	18
Utilizing state workforce registries and targeted surveys to investigate workforce wellbeing	17
Understanding associations between early social-emotional screening status and primary school children´s social-emotional well-being in Finland	17
Effects of a peer-mediated intervention on the language and socialization experiences and skills of preschool children	17
Policies addressing suspension and expulsion in state early care and education subsystems: A national census of policy alignment and integration	17
Latent profiles, predictors, and consequences of preschool teachers’ wellbeing in ECEC institutions	17
Effects of online parent coaching on Filipino children's skills	17
Corrigendum to “Academic impacts of a mindfulness-based intervention on early grades students attending high-needs schools” [Early Childhood Research Quarterly 74 (2026) 106–116]	17
You Do You[Tube]!The multifaceted roles of online video viewing in the lives of U.S. children	16
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	16
Association between the quality of teacher–child interactions in toddler classrooms and children’s numeracy, language, and literacy skills	16
Home literacy environment and Chinese Children’s second language development: A cross-lagged analysis	16
When Ebony and Malik share stories in school: White teachers’ perceptions of children's use of African American English during oral storytelling	16
“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 c	16
"¿Listos para la escuela? Ready, set, ¡vamos!"; [Ready for school? Ready, set, let’s go!] Understanding teachers’ language switching in linguistically diverse preschool classrooms	16
Transitions in patterns of caregiver involvement before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A latent transition analysis	16
Is participation in the target poverty alleviation program associated with early childhood development? Evidence from Southwest China	16
Profiles of early childhood developmental skills and experiences of risk	16
Can the sustaining environments hypothesis be sustained? Testing moderation of sustained public preschool benefits by kindergarten classroom quality	15
The development and prediction of young children's behavioral mastery motivation	15
Participation of early care and education centers in the child care subsidy system: A statewide mixed methods investigation	15
Gesture like a kitten and you won't forget your tale: Drama-based, embodied story time supports preschoolers’ narrative skills	14
Teacher language quality in preschool classrooms: Examining associations with DLLs' oral language skills	14
Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the child care sector: Evidence from North Carolina	14
Retention and turnover of teaching staff in a high-quality early childhood network	14
Pathways from marital relationships to children's social-emotional development in Korea: The role of parenting and social support	13
What a cool classroom! Voices of 5-year-olds on the design of physical learning environments	13
Effects of training parents in dialogic book‐sharing: The Early‐Years Provision in Children's Centers (EPICC) study	13
Family processes of socializing young children’s persistence in challenging tasks among racial/ethnic diverse low-income families	13
How are Difficulty Types Related to the Allocation of Special Needs Assistance in Early Childhood Education and Care	13
Close to home: Family-centered spatial analysis of access to early care and education	13
Potential moderators of the association between parental psychological distress and perceived child externalizing behaviors	12
Early head start participation among head start enrollees: Who participates and what are the associated child outcomes?	12
The effects of a high quality state-run preschool program as rated by a Quality Rating and Improvement System on children's school readiness	12
Associations among early childhood educator compensation, wellbeing, and job commitment	12
Effects of using video-based coaching to promote preservice teachers’ interactional skills in Chinese preschool classrooms	12
Pre-kindergarten classroom experiences and child outcomes through first grade	12
Does age moderate the influence of early life language experiences? A Naturalistic home observation study	12
Gender equity and motivational readiness for computational thinking in early childhood	11
Piecing together the puzzle: A mixed methods study of the Abecedarian Intervention	11
Cognitively engaging physical activity has an immediate impact on preschool children's executive function	11
Procrastination in early childhood: Associations with self-regulation, negative affectivity, and the home environment	11
Where has all the time gone? Describing time use in full- vs. half-day pre-Kindergarten	11
Child care use, preferences and access constraints among Native American, immigrant, refugee and Spanish-speaking families in New Mexico	11
Advice networks in early childhood education: Predicting teachers’ workplace experiences over time	11
Contributions of shared book reading to children's learning of new semantic facts through memory integration	10

Teacher turnover and residential instability: Exploring joint and contextual associations with child behavior	10
A pilot study of the impact and implementation of an anti-racism program for preschoolers	10
Early intervention of language and behavior in monolingual and bilingual preschoolers with Developmental Language Disorders	10
Associations between school characteristics and learning gains for pre-K attenders and non-attenders: Important constructs, limited evidence	10
Mathematics in U.S. Preschool and Kindergarten Classrooms	10
Psychometric properties of the early number competence test in chinese preschool children: A one-year longitudinal study	10
How associations between executive function and early academic skills may have been missed: A quantile regression approach	10
Taking a deeper dive into understanding factors associated with head start staff turnover using a holistic well-being framework	10
Reciprocal effects between phonological processing skills and Chinese word reading in kindergarten children: A longitudinal cross-lagged study	9
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 sociodemogr	9
Examining the effects of an infant-toddler school readiness intervention in center- and family-based programs: Are results generalizable?	9
Adding family math to the equation: Promoting Head Start preschoolers’ mathematics learning at home and school	9
Maternal and paternal parenting stress: Direct and interactive associations with child externalizing and internalizing behavior problems	9
Examining the child observation in preschool and teacher observation in preschool in community-based child care centers	9
Parent predictors of the home math environment and associations with toddlers’ math skills	9
Caregivers fine-tune their speech to support children’s word learning during shared book reading	9
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 services	9
Increasing access in the ECE enrollment process: Evidence from an information intervention in New Orleans	9
Classroom social network antecedents of relational aggression and victimization for kindergarten children	9
Promotion of early childhood development and mental health in quality rating and improvement systems for early care and education: A review of state quality indicators	8
Exploring the role of educator personality on structural and process quality in early childhood education and care settings	8
Best practices for designing and reporting caregiver training in early childhood mathematics interventions	8
An initial yet rigorous test of multisensory alphabet instruction for english monolingual and emergent bilingual children	8
Does screen exposure necessarily relate to behavior problems? The buffering roles of emotion regulation and caregiver companionship	8
Stability of parenting profiles in early childhood for African American children in households experiencing poverty	8
Preterm birth and expressive language development across the first 5 years of life: A nationally-representative longitudinal path analysis	8
Parenting programs in the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region: A multilevel meta-analysis	8
A sociometric approach to understanding characteristics of same- and other-gender friendships in young children	8
Exploring the relation between early childhood education and historical and contemporary racism and bias for Black children	8
Kindergarten Health and Absenteeism: Implications for Academic Achievement and Racial and Ethnic Disparities	8
Accommodating life's demands: Childcare choices for student parents in higher education	8
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 systems	8
Editorial Board	8
Associations between a preschool tuition credit and children’s school success outcomes: Moving beyond test scores	8
Associations between preschool quality and children's social-emotional development until 2nd grade of elementary school	8
Quality and inequality in pre-primary and home environment inputs to early childhood development in Egypt	8
Expanding access to high-quality early care and education for families with low income in Maryland through child care subsidy policies	8
Early childhood predictors of black children's achievement: Home, early care and education, and neighborhood contexts	8
Reliability and validity evidence for the English and Spanish preschool narrative language measures-listening	8
Guest editorial: Advancing our understanding of demographic (Mis)match in early childhood education	7
When bigger looks better: CLASS results in public Montessori preschool classrooms	7
Child social-emotional and behavioral problems and competencies contribute to changes in developmental functioning during Early Intervention	7
Vocabulary size predicts behavioral problems in emotionally reactive children	7
The Interrelations between home numeracy activities, children's attitudes toward mathematics, and their mathematics achievement	7
Linking professional development to classroom quality: Differences by ECE sector	7
COVID-19 and early childhood education: Implications for research, practice, and policy	7
Experiences of child care providers serving subsidy-receiving children involved in the child protective services system: Implications for equitable access	7
A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of coaching and the contribution of coaching processes to learning outcomes for early childhood teachers and children	7
Integrating the PERMA model and SWPBS approach: effects on portuguese early childhood teachers’ well-being and children’s self-regulation	7
Urban-rural achievement gap in low- and middle-income countries: The role of early childhood education	7
Exploring invariance of the measurement and prediction of ADHD behaviors in Latino children	7
Development of teacher-child conversations during three years of teacher coaching in dialogic approach to reading	7
Understanding U.S. households’ equitable access to infant and toddler care in the context of state CCDF eligibility-establishing policies	7
The impact of social pretend play on preschoolers’ social development: Results of an experimental study	7
Teacher-child racial/ethnic match from prekindergarten through first grade: Understanding early exposure and outcomes	7
From family socioeconomic status to vocabulary: The mediating roles of traditional and digital home literacy environment in Chinese preschoolers	7
Positive deviance in the Oregon kindergarten assessment: Identifying schools and communities that are beating the odds	6
Child care tradeoffs among Massachusetts mothers	6
Barriers to early childhood education for Black families and calls for equitable solutions from a qualitative study using peer researchers and an antiracist lens	6
Cortisol across preschool day relates to teacher ratings of executive functioning for children facing economic hardship	6
Teacher-student racial-ethnic match and kindergarteners’ academic and cognitive and executive function gains: Evidence from Boston	6
Big little leap: The role of transition difficulties in children's skill development during kindergarten	6
Parents’ epistemological beliefs to children's early numeracy abilities: Pathways through parents’ home practices and children's numeracy interest	6
A director like me: Teacher-leader racial/ethnic match and job outcomes in child care centers	6
Implementation of a comprehensive state effort to reduce exclusionary discipline in early care and education settings: Arkansas's policy	6
Editorial Board	6
Non-contact time implementation in early childhood center-based programs: A mixed methods study	6
Children's friendship quality in early childhood education: the interplay with classroom quality, participation practices, and length of exposure to the ECE teacher	6
Understanding the early development and well-being of children from refugee backgrounds in kindergarten from the perspective of teachers and settlement workers: A population-level, mixed methods study	6
Bridging home and school: How educator–parent relationships shape home learning environment and children's early language and literacy skills	6
Classroom chaos and program quality in early child care and education programs: A study from Turkey	6
Efficacy and perception of feasibility of structured games for achieving curriculum learning goals in pre-kindergarten and kindergarten low-income classrooms	6
Inequality in access to early childhood care and education programs among 3- to 4-year-olds: Trends and variations across low- and middle-income countries	6
Teacher-child relationship quality and kindergarten outcomes: The moderating role of classroom activity settings	6
The gender gap in early language development among children from peri-urban China	6
Parental responsiveness and punishment in preschoolers’ cooperation and aggression through emotional competencies: A four-wave multilevel study in Taiwan	6
Are food and nutrition assistance programs fostering an equitable early care and education (ECE) food environment? A systematic review utilizing the RE-AIM framework	6
Preschool teachers’ language-related pedagogical beliefs and their relation to observed classroom quality	6
What children get overlooked? The distribution of teachers’ attention in early childhood education: a mobile eye-tracking study	6
School readiness of dual language learners in Migrant and Seasonal Head Start (MSHS): The role of dominant language of classroom interactions and socioeconomic status	6

Kia Tīmata Pai (Best Start) Video Project: Effects of an oral language professional development program (ENRICH) on educator-toddler conversations	6
Evidence-based educational interventions to reduce intergroup bias among young children in conflict zones	6
Profiles of home language environment in Head Start classrooms: Patterns and associated developmental skills for Spanish-English dual language learners	5
Reducing childcare subsidy instability through eligibility period extensions: Equity impacts of 12-month recertification requirements	5
Peer effects in small-group language instruction	5
Payment rates and the stability of subsidized child care: Evidence from Minnesota's child care assistance program	5
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 practice	5
Measuring executive functions in context: Self-regulating behavior in the kindergarten classroom	5
Equitable use of subsidized child care in Georgia	5
Associations of state-funded prekindergarten with early elementary literacy and absences	5
The association between maternal social information processing and preschool children social and learning problems via maternal insightfulness and children's social information processing	5
Another case of the theory to practice gap: South Korean early childhood education and care	5
Following the leader: Associations between leader support and teacher retention in child care settings	5
Editorial Board	5
A machine learning approach to identifying non-parental caregivers' risk for harsh caregiving towards infants in daycare centers	5
An investigation into the concreteness of manipulatives in mathematical instruction: Do the object and its label matter?	5
Effect of the timing of initial exposure to maternal depression on children's school readiness	5
Racism under the skin: Connecting the dots between the threats of structural inequities and the biological embedding of adversity	5
Impacts of two public preschool programs on school readiness in San Francisco	5
Editorial Board	5
Preschool dosage, outcomes, and mechanisms: Why are two years better than one?	5
Training on number comparison, but not number line estimation, improves preschoolers’ symbolic approximate arithmetic	5
Editorial Board	5
Adverse childhood experiences, stress, and resilience among early childhood teachers	5
Advancing research on equitable access to early care and education in the United States	5
Consultative roles of early childhood special education teachers: A modeler, an advisor, and a spontaneous practitioner	5
Mission FEEL! A novel emotion understanding intervention for preschoolers: A proof-of-concept study	5
Direct and interactive effects of attendance rates on growth in language, literacy and mathematics skills for children enrolled in voluntary preschool programs	5
Fostering healthy social and emotional climates in early childhood classrooms through infant and early childhood mental health consultation	5
Embedded instruction for young children with disabilities: A systematic review and meta-analysis of single-case experimental research studies	4
The relationship of home-rearing environment with early childhood social competence and behavioral difficulties: Insights from Nepalese children	4
Exploring an early numeracy screening measure for English learners in primary grades	4
The Head Start teacher paradox: Working conditions, whole well-being, and classroom quality	4
Parental early math support: The role of parental knowledge about early math development	4
Home food practices and Latino kindergarteners’ academic skills	4
Validating a measure of growing pattern understanding in Chinese preschool children	4
Cluster randomized controlled trial of a phone-based caregiver support and parenting program for Syrian and Jordanian families with young children	4
Unravelling the pathways among relational language, number ordering skills, and number line estimation performance in Hong Kong kindergarten children	4
Predicting child externalizing behavior ratings in Head Start: Investigating the impact of child and teacher influences	4
“We need to prepare and adjust”: The school readiness beliefs and practices of Korean families with preschool-aged children	4
Fathers’ Engagement with and perceptions of child play: Evidence from the Rohingya camps of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh	4
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	4
Parent-child interaction styles relate to preschooler’s causal play, learning, and generalization	4
Broadening understanding of executive function in children with different hearing histories: The roles of fathers and coparenting	4
When time is relative: Pre-K classroom time use is measure sensitive	4
Latine Caregivers’ Approaches to Engaging Young Children in Mathematics	4
Challenges in the transition to kindergarten and children's well-being through elementary school: Do school transition supports matter?	4
Introduction to the Supplemental Issue: Advancing developmental science on the impact of racism in the early years	4
Can positive school climate ameliorate racial-ethnic disparities in pre-kindergarten quality? Evidence from a large urban school district	4
Introduction to Special Issue Contributions of father-child relationship to children's development within the larger family system: A focus on observational measures	4
Impacts of the four-day school week on early elementary achievement	4
Enhancing home visits to promote parents’ sensitive scaffolding among families living in poverty	4
Latine caregiver math talk across contexts and its relation to child math outcomes	4
Can peers help sustain the positive effects of an early childhood mathematics intervention?	4
American and Chinese parents’ math talk during numeracy and routine activities: Do parental beliefs matter?	4
Exploring home visitors’ use and perceptions of developmental monitoring: A mixed methods study	4
Impacts of the beginning education: early childcare at home (BEECH) program for family child care providers and young children	4
Supportive language strategies for preschool dual language learners: Associations with early language outcomes	4
Father’s involvement is critical in social-emotional development in early childhood: A meta-analysis	4
Impact of the Chicago universal pre-kindergarten expansion: Effects on pre-kindergarten capacity and enrollment and implications for equity	4
Coding as another language: Research-based curriculum for early childhood computer science	4
Impacts of a personalized book giveaway intervention in low-SES households	4
Beyond computing: Computational thinking is associated with sequencing ability and self-regulation among Chinese young children	4
Influences of reading skills in mathematics achievement: A moderated mediation model	4
Early self-regulation and academic competence in the preschool-to-primary school transition: The mediating role of behavioral problems	4
When kids be talkin’ Black: White educators’ beliefs about the effects of African American English on young children's achievement	4
Family child care closures in Wisconsin: A mixed-methods study with implications for infant-toddler care	4
The intersection of teacher-child language & ethnic match for Hispanic/Latine dual language learners in early elementary school	3
Center-based early care and education programs and quality indicators: A latent class analysis	3
Infant and early childhood mental health consultation: evaluating change in classroom climate and teaching practices by dosage of program exposure	3
“A win-win for all of us": COVID-19 sheds light on the essentialness of child care as key infrastructure	3
One size does not fit all: Associations between child characteristics, differential treatment of children by educators and quality in child care centers	3
The role of the traditional and digital home literacy environment in Chinese Kindergartners’ language and early literacy	3
Designing culturally situated playful environments for early STEM learning with a Latine community	3
How are Early Head Start teachers’ professional development experiences associated with their work-related stress and qualities of teacher-child interactions?	3
Children's task persistence in first grade: The role of parent-child and teacher-child relationships	3
“I now see my toddler as a helper, not just somebody in need of help”: Raising Helpful Toddlers training	3
Variations in the home language environment and early language development in a peri-urban community in China	3
Early cognitive predictors of language, literacy, and mathematics outcomes in the primary grades	3
Caregivers’ perceptions on caregiver-implemented intervention and coaching	3
Do early childhood education, stimulation, and caregiver distress associate with child development outcomes differentially by gender? A household survey in Pakistan	3
The role of language in the association between theory of mind and executive functioning in early childhood: New longitudinal evidence	3
The impact of work-related wellbeing and workplace culture and climate on intention to leave in the early childhood sector	3
Phonological processing and spatial attention contribute to mathematics performance in different ways: A 3-year longitudinal study	3
A longitudinal study on early numeracy development: Necessary but not sufficient role of earlier skills	3
Essential elements of infant and early childhood mental health consultation: Inside the black box of preschool expulsion prevention	3
Multidimensional patterns of early care and education access through a family centered lens	3
Unique components of preschool children’s externalizing behaviors that relate to the development of early literacy skills: Comparing teacher and parent report	3
Does executive function affect children's peer relationships more than emotion understanding? A Longitudinal study based on latent growth model	3
Blame, shame, and rejection: Families’ experiences with preschool suspension and expulsion	3
Kindergarten academic and social skills and exposure to peers with pre-kindergarten experience	3
Exploring the impacts of linguistics, working memory, age, and gender on the quantity-number competencies model	3
Who calls for help? Assessing the reach of the Ohio preschool expulsion prevention partnership	3
The spatial inequality of early care and education centers	3
The impacts of Abecedarian and Head Start on educational attainment: Reasoning about unobserved mechanisms from temporal patterns of indirect effects	3