Rachel A Gordon
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 96197 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Rachel A Gordon |
| PRENOMES | Rachel A |
| SOBRENOME | Gordon |
| ASSINATURA | GORDON R A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Illinois Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5306-6367 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 182 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1939 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Variation in Skin Red and Yellow Undertone
It is well established that skin lightness-darkness is associated with social outcomes, but little is known regarding the social salience of skin undertones (redness and yellowness). Our study addresses two related research questions on this topic: first, we ask whether red and yellow undertones are consistently perceived by observers; second, we ask whether red and yellow undertones are associated with expectations of discrimination across a ran…
Family Child Care Providers’ Experience With the Child and Adult Care Food Program During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Promoting Preschoolers’ Social and Emotional Competencies Through Emotion-Focused Teaching
Research Findings: This study examined associations between observed emotion-focused teaching practices and preschool children’s emotion expression, emotion-related behaviors, and learning behaviors. Four centers located in large midwestern and mid-Atlantic metropolitan areas participated in the study. Of these, one center was a Head Start program, one served families on a sliding scale fee, one was focused on providing services to low-income fam…
Applied Statistics for the Social and Health Sciences
Covering basic univariate and bivariate statistics and regression models for nominal, ordinal, and interval outcomes, Applied Statistics for the Social and Health Sciences provides graduate students in the social and health sciences with fundamental skills to estimate, interpret, and publish quantitative research using contemporary standards.Reflecting the growing importance of "Big Data" in the social and health sciences, this thoroughly revised…
Student self-ratings of social-emotional competencies
Introduction to ECRQ special issue measuring quality in early care and education
Emotion-focused teaching practices and preschool children’s social and learning behaviors
Preschool classrooms are rich with emotions, from a teacher's enthusiastic praise for a child's work to a child's anger at another child who is using wanted materials. A wide variety of teaching behaviors may help children learn about their own and others' emotional states as well as regulation strategies to manage their emotions. In the present study, we relate teachers' emotion-focused teaching behaviors (including how teachers model emotions, …
The Developmental Significance of Looks from Middle Childhood to Early Adolescence
Physical appearance during the transition into adolescence matters for youths' socioemotional development. This study explored these implications by adding visual data to the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (n = 1,049) to test how others' ratings of youths' looks (1 = very unattractive to 5 = very attractive) at the beginning (grade 3) and end (grade 9) of this transition shaped their emotional well-being, popularity/likabil…
Parents’ socialization of preschool-aged children's emotion skills
An introduction to the many-facet Rasch model as a method to improve observational quality measures with an application to measuring the teaching of emotion skills
Recent reviews have called attention to limitations of existing observational measures of early childhood classroom quality, including low rater agreement, ceiling/floor effects, and imprecise estimation. We offer an introduction to the many-facet Rasch model (MFRM), discussing how it can be used to iteratively improve measures to address such limitations. We provide an example of applying the MFRM to develop the EMOtion TEaching Rating Scale (EM…
Who owns educational products developed with federal funds? Intellectual property rights in preK-12 education
Although law and regulation governing the distribution of intellectual property rights has significant implications for the cost, quality, and adaptability of educational products and services, PreK-12 education researchers have largely overlooked this issue. Recent changes to federal regulations in the U.S. require some federally funded educational products to be ‘open license,’ allowing the public to freely use curricula, tests, and other deliv…
Evidence regarding the domains of the CLASS PreK in Head Start classrooms
Child care arrangements and gender
Crowd Sourcing
During the transition into high school, adolescents sort large sets of unfamiliar peers into prototypical peer crowds thought to share similar values, behaviors, and interests (e.g., Jocks). Often, such sorting is based solely on appearance. This study investigates the accuracy of this sorting process in relation to actual characteristics using video and survey data from a longitudinal sample of U.S. youths who attended high school in the mid- to…
Directors’ reports about program-wide pedagogical approaches
Contemporary College Students’ Reflections on Their High School Peer Crowds
High school peer crowds are fundamental components of adolescent development with influences on short-and long-term life trajectories. This study provides the perspectives of contemporary college students regarding their recent high school social landscapes, contributing to current research and theory on the social contexts of high school. This study also highlights the experiences of college-bound students who represent a growing segment of the …
Measuring Constructs in Family Science
This article provides family scientists with an understanding of contemporary measurement perspectives and the ways in which item response theory (IRT) can be used to develop measures with desired evidence of precision and validity for research uses. The article offers a nontechnical introduction to some key features of IRT, including its orientation toward locating items along an underlying dimension and toward estimating precision of measuremen…
Regression Analysis for the Social Sciences
Serious Delinquency and Gang Participation
Using Pittsburgh Youth Study data, we examined the extent to which over 600 gang members and non-gang involved young men specialized in drug selling, serious theft, or serious violence or engaged simultaneously in these serious delinquent behaviors, throughout the 1990s. We found that the increase in delinquency associated with gang membership was concentrated in two combinations: serious violence and drug selling; serious violence, drug selling,…
Beyond an “Either–Or” approach to home- and center-based child care
An assessment of the validity of the Ecers-R with implications for measures of child care quality and relations to child development
The Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale-Revised (ECERS-R) is widely used to associate child care quality with child development, but its validity for this purpose is not well established. We examined the validity of the ECERS-R using the multidimensional Rasch partial credit model (PCM), factor analyses, and regression analyses with data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Birth Cohort. The PCM identified rating category disordering,…
Early Child Care and Illness among Preschoolers
The majority of young American children regularly spend time in nonparental care settings. Such arrangements are associated with their experiences of common childhood illnesses. Why this linkage exists, how it varies across the socioeconomic spectrum, and whether it has implications for how parents arrange care are all important theoretical and policy issues. In this study, therefore, we applied a fixed-effects design within structural equation m…
Does Child-Care Quality Mediate Associations Between Type of Care and Development
Studies document that, on average, children cared for in centers, as compared to homes, have higher cognitive test scores but worse socioemotional and health outcomes. The authors assessed whether the quality of care received explains these associations. They considered multiple domains of child development-cognitive, socioemotional, and health-and examined whether mediation is greater when quality measures are better aligned with outcome domains…
New evidence on the validity of the Arnett Caregiver Interaction Scale
The Child and Adult Care Food Program and the nutrition of preschoolers
Antisocial Behavior and Youth Gang Membership
We examine whether gang membership is associated with higher levels of delinquency because boys predisposed to delinquent activity are more likely than others to join. We use 10 years of longitudinal data from 858 participants of the Pittsburgh Youth Study to identify periods before, during and after gang membership. We build on prior research by controlling for ages and calendar time, by better accounting for gang memberships that occurred befor…
An assessment of the validity of the Ecers-R with implications for measures of child care quality and relations to child development
The Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale-Revised (ECERS-R) is widely used to associate child care quality with child development, but its validity for this purpose is not well established. We examined the validity of the ECERS-R using the multidimensional Rasch partial credit model (PCM), factor analyses, and regression analyses with data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Birth Cohort. The PCM identified rating category disordering,…
Child Care and Work Absences
Parents face a trade-off in the effect of child-care problems on employment. Whereas large settings may increase problems because of child illness, small group care may relate to provider unavailability. Analyzing the NICHD Study of Early Child Care, we find that child-care centers and large family day care lead to mothers' greater work absences because of a sick child, but not to maternal job exits. Greater work absences because of unavailabilit…
The Child and Adult Care Food Program and the nutrition of preschoolers
The Best Laid Plans
This study considers whether an earlier and more extensive search for child care, and a match of the type used to the type preferred, predicts arrangement stability. We used the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care to estimate multinomial logit models of arrangement changes over 3-month intervals between 3 and 12 months (n= 958 children and 2,223 observations). Use of preferred care predicted greater …
Does Child-Care Quality Mediate Associations Between Type of Care and Development
Studies document that, on average, children cared for in centers, as compared to homes, have higher cognitive test scores but worse socioemotional and health outcomes. The authors assessed whether the quality of care received explains these associations. They considered multiple domains of child development-cognitive, socioemotional, and health-and examined whether mediation is greater when quality measures are better aligned with outcome domains…
The effects of maternal employment on child injuries and infectious disease
This article presents estimates of effects of maternal paid work and nonmaternal child care on injuries and infectious disease for children aged 12 to 36 months. Mother-child fixed-effects estimates are obtained by using data from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care. Estimates indicate that maternal employment itself has no statistically significant adverse effects on the incidence of infectious disease and injury. However, greater time spent by …
Beyond an “Either–Or” approach to home- and center-based child care
The Child and Adult Care Food Program
This article focuses on an understudied food subsidy program, the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), examining whether it reaches low-income children and whether children who receive CACFP differ from those who do not receive it. Data come from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort, which provides a representative sample of preschoolers and their providers. This study finds that CACFP eligibility rules exclude many low-inco…
Contemporary College Students’ Reflections on Their High School Peer Crowds
High school peer crowds are fundamental components of adolescent development with influences on short-and long-term life trajectories. This study provides the perspectives of contemporary college students regarding their recent high school social landscapes, contributing to current research and theory on the social contexts of high school. This study also highlights the experiences of college-bound students who represent a growing segment of the …
Family and neighborhood income
Maternal Age at First Birth and Boys' Risk for Conduct Disorder
Young maternal age is a known risk factor for behavior problems in children, but links to specific clinical disorders have not been established. Although a history of conduct problems in girls increases the risk of early pregnancy, multigenerational links between maternal history of problem behavior, age at first birth, and child conduct disorder (CD) have not been previously studied. In this sample of 177 primarily White, clinic-referred boys, m…
Serious Delinquency and Gang Participation
Using Pittsburgh Youth Study data, we examined the extent to which over 600 gang members and non-gang involved young men specialized in drug selling, serious theft, or serious violence or engaged simultaneously in these serious delinquent behaviors, throughout the 1990s. We found that the increase in delinquency associated with gang membership was concentrated in two combinations: serious violence and drug selling; serious violence, drug selling,…
New evidence on the validity of the Arnett Caregiver Interaction Scale
Parents’ socialization of preschool-aged children's emotion skills
Evidence regarding the domains of the CLASS PreK in Head Start classrooms
Measuring Constructs in Family Science
This article provides family scientists with an understanding of contemporary measurement perspectives and the ways in which item response theory (IRT) can be used to develop measures with desired evidence of precision and validity for research uses. The article offers a nontechnical introduction to some key features of IRT, including its orientation toward locating items along an underlying dimension and toward estimating precision of measuremen…
Early Child Care and Illness among Preschoolers
The majority of young American children regularly spend time in nonparental care settings. Such arrangements are associated with their experiences of common childhood illnesses. Why this linkage exists, how it varies across the socioeconomic spectrum, and whether it has implications for how parents arrange care are all important theoretical and policy issues. In this study, therefore, we applied a fixed-effects design within structural equation m…
The Developmental Significance of Looks from Middle Childhood to Early Adolescence
Physical appearance during the transition into adolescence matters for youths' socioemotional development. This study explored these implications by adding visual data to the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (n = 1,049) to test how others' ratings of youths' looks (1 = very unattractive to 5 = very attractive) at the beginning (grade 3) and end (grade 9) of this transition shaped their emotional well-being, popularity/likabil…
Modeling Trajectories in Social Program Outcomes for Performance Accountability
Government and public focus on accountability for program outcomes, combined with practical and ethical constraints on experimental designs, make nonexperimental studies of social programs an increasingly common approach to producing information on program performance. In this paper, we compare the effectiveness of alternative nonexperimental evaluation methods used with longitudinal data to produce information about social program outcomes. The …
Fiscal Policy as a Factor in Stability
Young Mothers Living with Grandmothers and Living Apart
(1997). Young Mothers Living with Grandmothers and Living Apart: How Neighborhood and Household Contexts Relate to Multigenerational Coresidence in African American Families. Applied Developmental Science: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 89-106
Multigenerational coresidence and welfare policy
As part of the 1996 federal welfare reform, lawmakers required unmarried, minor parents to live with their own parents (or another qualified adult). This paper considers a few key issues related to this requirement: 1) prior to the living arrangements requirement, did income from Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) lead teenage mothers to move out of their parents' home? 2) did young mothers who stayed at home do better or worse than t…
Maternal Age at First Birth and Boys' Risk for Conduct Disorder
Young maternal age is a known risk factor for behavior problems in children, but links to specific clinical disorders have not been established. Although a history of conduct problems in girls increases the risk of early pregnancy, multigenerational links between maternal history of problem behavior, age at first birth, and child conduct disorder (CD) have not been previously studied. In this sample of 177 primarily White, clinic-referred boys, m…
Availability of Child Care in the United States
Lack of high-quality, affordable, and accessible child care is an often-cited impediment to a manageable balance between work and family. Researchers, however, have been restricted by a scarcity of data on the availability of child care across all U.S. communities. In this paper we describe and evaluate several indicators of child care availability that have been released by the U.S. Census Bureau over the last 15 years. Using community- and indi…
Family and neighborhood income
Modeling Trajectories in Social Program Outcomes for Performance Accountability
Government and public focus on accountability for program outcomes, combined with practical and ethical constraints on experimental designs, make nonexperimental studies of social programs an increasingly common approach to producing information on program performance. In this paper, we compare the effectiveness of alternative nonexperimental evaluation methods used with longitudinal data to produce information about social program outcomes. The …
Antisocial Behavior and Youth Gang Membership
We examine whether gang membership is associated with higher levels of delinquency because boys predisposed to delinquent activity are more likely than others to join. We use 10 years of longitudinal data from 858 participants of the Pittsburgh Youth Study to identify periods before, during and after gang membership. We build on prior research by controlling for ages and calendar time, by better accounting for gang memberships that occurred befor…
The Best Laid Plans
This study considers whether an earlier and more extensive search for child care, and a match of the type used to the type preferred, predicts arrangement stability. We used the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care to estimate multinomial logit models of arrangement changes over 3-month intervals between 3 and 12 months (n= 958 children and 2,223 observations). Use of preferred care predicted greater …
The effects of maternal employment on child injuries and infectious disease
This article presents estimates of effects of maternal paid work and nonmaternal child care on injuries and infectious disease for children aged 12 to 36 months. Mother-child fixed-effects estimates are obtained by using data from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care. Estimates indicate that maternal employment itself has no statistically significant adverse effects on the incidence of infectious disease and injury. However, greater time spent by …
Child Care and Work Absences
Parents face a trade-off in the effect of child-care problems on employment. Whereas large settings may increase problems because of child illness, small group care may relate to provider unavailability. Analyzing the NICHD Study of Early Child Care, we find that child-care centers and large family day care lead to mothers' greater work absences because of a sick child, but not to maternal job exits. Greater work absences because of unavailabilit…
City Life from Jakarta to Dakar
City Life from Jakarta to Dakar focuses on the politics incumbent to this process – an "anticipatory politics" – that encompasses a wide range of practices, calculations and economies. As such, the book is not a collection of case studies on a specific theme, not a review of developmental problems, nor does it marshal the focal cities as evidence of particular urban trends. Rather, it examines how possibilities, perhaps inherent in these cities a…
The Child and Adult Care Food Program
This article focuses on an understudied food subsidy program, the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), examining whether it reaches low-income children and whether children who receive CACFP differ from those who do not receive it. Data come from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort, which provides a representative sample of preschoolers and their providers. This study finds that CACFP eligibility rules exclude many low-inco…
New evidence on the validity of the Arnett Caregiver Interaction Scale
The Child and Adult Care Food Program and the nutrition of preschoolers
Beyond an “Either–Or” approach to home- and center-based child care
An assessment of the validity of the Ecers-R with implications for measures of child care quality and relations to child development
The Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale-Revised (ECERS-R) is widely used to associate child care quality with child development, but its validity for this purpose is not well established. We examined the validity of the ECERS-R using the multidimensional Rasch partial credit model (PCM), factor analyses, and regression analyses with data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Birth Cohort. The PCM identified rating category disordering,…
Early Child Care and Illness among Preschoolers
The majority of young American children regularly spend time in nonparental care settings. Such arrangements are associated with their experiences of common childhood illnesses. Why this linkage exists, how it varies across the socioeconomic spectrum, and whether it has implications for how parents arrange care are all important theoretical and policy issues. In this study, therefore, we applied a fixed-effects design within structural equation m…
Does Child-Care Quality Mediate Associations Between Type of Care and Development
Studies document that, on average, children cared for in centers, as compared to homes, have higher cognitive test scores but worse socioemotional and health outcomes. The authors assessed whether the quality of care received explains these associations. They considered multiple domains of child development-cognitive, socioemotional, and health-and examined whether mediation is greater when quality measures are better aligned with outcome domains…
Serious Delinquency and Gang Participation
Using Pittsburgh Youth Study data, we examined the extent to which over 600 gang members and non-gang involved young men specialized in drug selling, serious theft, or serious violence or engaged simultaneously in these serious delinquent behaviors, throughout the 1990s. We found that the increase in delinquency associated with gang membership was concentrated in two combinations: serious violence and drug selling; serious violence, drug selling,…
Measuring Constructs in Family Science
This article provides family scientists with an understanding of contemporary measurement perspectives and the ways in which item response theory (IRT) can be used to develop measures with desired evidence of precision and validity for research uses. The article offers a nontechnical introduction to some key features of IRT, including its orientation toward locating items along an underlying dimension and toward estimating precision of measuremen…
Regression Analysis for the Social Sciences
Contemporary College Students’ Reflections on Their High School Peer Crowds
High school peer crowds are fundamental components of adolescent development with influences on short-and long-term life trajectories. This study provides the perspectives of contemporary college students regarding their recent high school social landscapes, contributing to current research and theory on the social contexts of high school. This study also highlights the experiences of college-bound students who represent a growing segment of the …
Directors’ reports about program-wide pedagogical approaches
Evidence regarding the domains of the CLASS PreK in Head Start classrooms
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