Samantha Burns

Dados Biográficos

ID3917538
NOMESamantha Burns
PRENOMESSamantha
SOBRENOMEBurns
ASSINATURABURNS S
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Toronto
ORCID0000-0001-5251-0369
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS30
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES9
TOTAL COMO AUTOR30
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2019
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H2

  • Examining and Quantifying Variance in Quality Across Three Levels of Assessment in Early Childhood Education and Care Settings

    Open AccessSamantha Burns, Olesya Falenchuk et al.ARTICLEEarly Childhood Education Journal2026

  • Beyond Free Play and Physical Activity

    Open AccessSamantha Burns, Esther Yu et al.ARTICLEEarly Education and Development2026

    Access to high quality outdoor environments (OE)s has important implications for children’s developmental outcomes. Early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings provide an optimal opportunity for children to have access to OEs. The purpose of this study was to provide a description of OEs in ECEC settings and explore how characteristics of the activities that educators and children engaged in, indicators of structural quality, and temperatu…

  • Teaching Interpersonal Problem-Solving Skills to Young Children in Early Childhood Education and Care (Ecec) Settings

    Open AccessEvelyn McMullen, Michal Perlman et al.ARTICLEReview of Educational Research2026

    Problem-solving has been identified as a critical 21st-century skill. This review integrated evidence on the effectiveness of existing approaches to teaching and assessing problem-solving in an interpersonal context (IPS) for children from birth to age six, in early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings. A comprehensive search (i.e., PsycINFO, ERIC, Education Source, Child Development and Adolescent Studies) yielded 13,030 abstracts, 38 el…

  • Declining Classroom Quality in Early Childhood Education Over the Course of a Morning is Associated with Children’s Emotional Problems

    Open AccessZhangjing Luo, Samantha Burns et al.ARTICLEChild & Youth Care Forum2025

  • The Achilles heel of Child First

    Open AccessSean Creaney, Samantha BurnsARTICLEProbation Journal2025

    Despite significant interest in the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales’ ‘Child First’ policy framework, it appears difficult to implement within multi-agency ‘high-risk’ panels, as they remain adult-centric, excluding children from being able to safely and meaningfully participate. Public safety concerns and victims’ needs take priority, leaving children relatively powerless. The ‘high-risk’ status assigned to children legitimises their ex…

  • Conceptualizing, operationalizing, and assessing creativity in early childhood education and care settings

    Samantha Burns, Arjun Puri et al.ARTICLEPsychology of Aesthetics…2025

  • Assessing Educator Responsivity in Outdoor Early Childhood Education and Care Settings

    Esther Yu, Samantha Burns et al.ARTICLEEarly Education and Development2025

    Research Findings: Outdoor time is essential in early childhood education, yet quality assessments that are specifically focused on outdoor settings remain limited. Existing indoor measures primarily evaluate environment-level quality while neglecting educator-child interactions and the educators’ central role in children’s central learning. This study evaluates the psychometric properties of the Responsive Interactions for Learning – Outdoor Env…

  • A scoping review and network analysis of the characteristics of peer collaboration in early educational settings from studies using diverse methodologies

    Samantha Burns, Leah Brathwaite et al.ARTICLEEducational Review2025

    Peer collaboration is a complex skill that emerges in early childhood. However, researchers and practitioners lack a shared understanding/definition of what peer collaboration means and how to observe it in early educational settings. This review aimed to examine definitions of peer collaboration and the behaviours observed in research on peer collaboration in children zero to six years of age. The current scoping review follows the Joanna Briggs…

  • It’s important to have windows so you can get sunlight”

    Open AccessSamantha Burns, Jesseca Perlman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Early Childhood Research2025Referências: 7

    Across the globe young children are increasingly spending time in early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings. Exposure to ECEC settings is associated with positive developmental outcomes when they are of high quality. Quality rating and improvement systems (QRIS) measure and improve the quality of children’s experiences in ECEC settings. However, they rarely include children’s perspectives directly. This is at least in part due to the cha…

  • Navigating Parenthood in the Pandemic

    Open AccessSamantha Burns, Adrienne Davidson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Issues2025Referências: 30

    Inequalities that emerged during COVID-19 pandemic highlight the need to examine parent constraints in their decision-making around work and early childhood education and care (ECEC). This paper draws on conjoint survey data from a representative sample of 976 parents from the four largest Canadian provinces to examine the trade-offs parents made regarding their child’s care during the pandemic. Demographic differences in parental income, employm…

  • It is almost impossible to get a spot when you need it

    Open AccessSamantha Burns, Esther Yu et al.ARTICLEEarly Childhood Research Quarterly2025Referências: 3

  • Beyond the Mask

    Open AccessCalpanaa Jegatheeswaran, Samantha Burns et al.ARTICLEChild & Youth Care Forum2024

  • Influence of Maternal Cognitions on Child Mental Health and Educational Experiences at Home During Covid-19

    Calpanaa Jegatheeswaran, Samantha Burns et al.ARTICLEEarly Education and Development2024

    Suboptimal parenting characterized by low self-efficacy and perceived impact is associated with poor child mental health and academic outcomes, especially for at-risk families. This study capitalized on a longitudinal study conducted prior to and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic to test how prior parenting cognitions and environmental risk factors predict mental health and educational challenges faced by children during the pandemic. Pre-…

  • Navigating technology in the classroom

    Samantha Burns, Elaine Hoan et al.ARTICLEEducational Review2024

    Early educational settings such as early childhood education and care and kindergarten (i.e. formal schooling) are important contexts to foster children’s peer collaboration, an important skill for the twenty-first century. The prevalence of technology in early educational settings has continued to increase rapidly in ways that can support the development of peer collaboration. The purpose of this scoping review, therefore, was to identify the ty…

  • Interventions to Reduce Parental Substance Use, Domestic Violence and Mental Health Problems, and Their Impacts Upon Children’s Well-Being

    Open AccessSimon Barrett, Cassey Muir et al.ARTICLETrauma Violence & Abuse2024

  • Mechanisms That Promote and Support Family Preservation for Children at the Edge of Care

    Open AccessSam Redgate, Deborah Smart et al.ARTICLESAGE Open2024

    Children in care of the state are amongst the most disadvantaged in society. They have often experienced adverse childhood experiences leading to their care entry including abuse and neglect. Longitudinal data suggests problems children in care of the state experience within adolescence persist into adulthood, showing “a continuing legacy of adversity.” Emerging literature shows that edge of care interventions can bring about benefits. These inte…

  • The Unique Impacts of Covid-19 on Low-Income and Diverse Canadian Women’s Mental Health Profiles

    Open AccessSamantha Burns, Calpanaa Jegatheeswaran et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2024

  • Transforming the Balance of Power? Child First Collaboration

    Open AccessKathy Hampson, Sean Creaney et al.ARTICLESocieties2024Referências: 5

    Collaboration is one of the major tenets of Child First justice and yet is proving problematic in its application across the sector, especially where children are compelled through court orders to engage with interventions, creating inevitable power imbalances. In order to facilitate children in genuinely influencing decision-making processes which concern them, their voice needs to be given its proper value. In this article we use the youth just…

  • Exploring the role of educator personality on structural and process quality in early childhood education and care settings

    Open AccessSamantha Burns, Zhangjing Luo et al.ARTICLEEarly Childhood Research Quarterly2024Referências: 11

  • Examining the Stability and Durability of Child Care Arrangements during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Canada

    Busra Hacioglu, Samantha Burns et al.ARTICLECanadian Public Policy2024Referências: 6

    La pandémie de COVID-19 a provoqué d'importantes perturbations dans tous les secteurs du travail et de la vie familiale, y compris les services de garde éducatifs à l'enfance (SGÉE). Les recherches démontrent que l'instabilité (soit les interruptions aux services de garde) et l'absence de durabilité des SGÉE (soit le maintien des mêmes services de garde au fil du temps) peuvent exacerber le stress des parents et nuire au développement de l'enfant…

  • Instrument Development and Validation of the Home Child Care Version of the Assessment for Quality Improvement

    Michal Perlman, Olesya Falenchuk et al.ARTICLEEarly Education and Development2023

    Research Findings: Measures of home child care (HCC) quality are limited and tend to be labor intensive. This article presents the measure development process as well as psychometric, construct, convergent and discriminant validity analyses for the HCC version of the Assessment for Quality Improvement (HCC-AQI) measure. The HCC-AQI is part of a suite of observational measures developed by the City of Toronto for use in its early childhood educati…

  • The effects of expressions of fear induced by background music on reading comprehension

    Open AccessAgnes S K Wong, Matthew Moreno et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research in Reading2023

    Background Research has suggested that background music can have a positive or negative effect that can influence the affective state of individuals. Although research has demonstrated that fear negatively influences our cognitive performance, there is a research gap in understanding the combined effects of different background music tempo and fear in influencing reading comprehension performance. Methods Data were collected from 70 participants …

  • What Do Parents Want in Terms of Early Childhood Education and Care

    Sumayya Saleem, Samantha Burns et al.ARTICLEEarly Education and Development2022

    In the development of early childhood education and care (ECEC) policy, it is important to understand parents’ decision-making in terms of both preferences and pragmatic constraints. Traditional data collection techniques such as self-reported surveys can elucidate parental preferences, however, these may differ from their actual decisions. In our research we marry qualitative responses about ECEC preferences with the results of a quasi-behaviora…

  • Examining interactions between educators and across children

    Open AccessSamantha Burns, Christine Barron et al.ARTICLEEarly Childhood Research Quarterly2022Referências: 8

  • Information effects on parental choices for early childhood education and care

    Open AccessSamantha Burns, Adrienne Davidson et al.ARTICLEBehavioural Public Policy2022Citada por: 4Referências: 5

    Existing research demonstrates that parents are poorly informed consumers of early childhood education and care (ECEC) services. Choosing such services is a complex process shaped by a combination of logistical limitations (e.g., cost/location), informational barriers and ideas about what the goal of care should be (e.g., education of young children or provision of an environment that feels like home). Experimental studies have also demonstrated …