{"product_id":"quality-thresholds-features-and-dosage-in-early-care-and-education-9781119308669","title":"Quality Thresholds Features and Dosage in Early","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe questions of whether preschool children benefi t more strongly when early care and education (ECE) is at or above a threshold of quality, has specifi c quality features, and\/or is of longer duration were examined in secondary data analyses of eight large ECE studies. These issues are pivotal in recent ECE policies designed to improve school readiness skills, especially for children from low-income families. Threshold analyses examined whether quality had stronger associations with gains in child outcomes in settings with high levels of quality than those with lower quality. Features analyses considered whether specific measures of instruction and of teacher-child interaction were more predictive of gains than global quality measures. Dosage analyses tested whether the amount of in ECE settings or in instruction in specific content areas predicted child outcomes. Threshold analyses provided some evidence for thresholds in measures of instructional quality in relation to reading a\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eQUALITY THRESHOLDS, FEATURES, AND DOSAGE IN EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION: SECONDARY DATA ANALYSES OF CHILD OUTCOMES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e CONTENTS \u003cp\u003eI.  QUALITY THRESHOLDS, FEATURES, AND DOSAGE IN EARLY CARE AND        7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEDUCATION: INTRODUCTION AND LITERATURE REVIEW\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartha Zaslow, Rachel Anderson, Zakia Redd, Julia Wessel, Paula Daneri, Katherine Green, Elizabeth W. Cavadel, Louisa Tarullo,\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMargaret Burchinal, and Ivelisse Martinez-Beck\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eII.  QUALITY THRESHOLDS, FEATURES, AND DOSAGE IN             27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEARLY CARE AND EDUCATION: METHODS\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMargaret Burchinal, Yange Xue, Anamarie Auger, Hsiao-Chuan Tien, Andrew Mashburn, Elizabeth W. Cavadel, and Ellen Peisner-Feinberg\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIII. TESTING FOR QUALITY THRESHOLDS AND FEATURES         46\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIN EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMargaret Burchinal, Yange Xue, Anamarie Auger, Hsiao-Chuan Tien, Andrew Mashburn, Ellen Peisner-Feinberg, Elizabeth W. Cavadel,\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartha Zaslow, and Louisa Tarullo\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIV.  TESTING FOR DOSAGE-OUTCOME ASSOCIATIONS IN    64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEARLY CARE AND EDUCATION\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYange Xue, Margaret Burchinal, Anamarie Auger, Hsiao-Chuan Tien, Andrew Mashburn, Ellen Peisner-Feinberg, Elizabeth W. Cavadel,\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartha Zaslow, and Louisa Tarullo\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eV.  QUALITY THRESHOLDS, FEATURES, AND DOSAGE IN EARLY CARE     75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAND EDUCATION: DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartha Zaslow, Margaret Burchinal, Louisa Tarullo, and Ivelisse Martinez-Beck\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eREFERENCES        88\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAPPENDIX         95\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eACKNOWLEDGMENTS       99\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e COMMENTARY \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eREFLECTIONS ON QUALITY AND DOSAGE OF PRESCHOOL AND CHILDREN’S DEVELOPMENT       100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElizabeth Votruba-Drzal and Portia Miller\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCONTRIBUTORS        114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSTATEMENT OF EDITORIAL POLICY       118\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSUBJECT  INDEX       120\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407031607639,"sku":"9781119308669","price":32.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781119308669.jpg?v=1730497938","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/quality-thresholds-features-and-dosage-in-early-care-and-education-9781119308669","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}