Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Early Childhood Research Quarterly (ECRQ) publishes research on early childhood education and development from birth through 8 years of age. ECRQ publishes only empirical research (quantitative or mixed methods) on issues of interest to early childhood development, theory, and educational practice.

The journal also occasionally publishes significant, rigorous meta-analytic reviews of research. It will no longer publish non-quantitative reviews, such as systematic or scoping reviews. As an applied research journal, we are interested in work that has social, policy, and educational relevance and implications and work that strengthens links between research and practice.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Children's social, emotional, cognitive, behavioral, language, and motor development applied to early childhood settings.

• Center- and home-based care, program quality, and children's transition to school

• Program evaluations related to early intervention, prevention or interventions that will influence early childhood education practice and policy

• Implementation science related to early childhood education initiatives

• Public policy, early childhood education, and child development

• Best classroom practices and effective early childhood curricula

• Caregiver professional development and training and well-being

• Relationships between early childhood education and family or parental engagement

• The larger contexts and systems including schools, neighborhoods and communities in which early childhood education programs take place.

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