Resources
This section contains materials that can be useful to students, teachers, and researchers. Here are some websites, software programs, and devices that I found useful in my research.
Resources list
If you have specific questions about materials, feel free to email me.
Early Care and Education
- The 50-State Early Childhood Policy Progress and Landscape Report tool by Alliance for Early Success details each state’s progress in early childhood policy in 2024.
https://earlysuccess.org/2024-progress-and-landscape/ - The Child Care and Early Learning Map by the Center for American Progress is an interactive tool that provides annual state data such as child care cost, educator hourly wage, and percent of children in poverty.
https://www.americanprogress.org/data-view/early-learning-in-the-united-states/child-care-and-early-learning-explore-the-map/ - The State Governance Structures tool by the Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center offers early childhood system organization charts for each state. https://pn3policy.org/early-childhood-governance/
Immigrant Children and Families
- The Urban Institute Children of Immigrants Data Tool extracts information on multiple variables of interest for immigrant populations from the American Community Survey (ACS).
https://children-of-immigrants-explorer.urban.org/pages.cfm - Visualizing Trends for Children of Immigrants, another tool by the Urban Institute, displays annual trends for numbers of immigrant children in states and major metro areas.
https://apps.urban.org/features/children-of-immigrants/ - Interactive Public Benefits Map from the National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project details states’ policies on providing public benefits to immigrant populations.
https://niwaplibrary.wcl.american.edu/all-state-public-benefits-charts/
Language Development
- Language Environment Analysis (LENA) is digital technology that automatically collects data on children’s language environment at home or in early care and education settings.
https://www.lena.org/ - Computerized Language Analysis (CLAN) allows researchers to analyze language samples and obtain common measures of language such as mean length of utterance (MLU) and Mean Length of Turn (MLT). https://dali.talkbank.org/clan/
- MacWhisper is an AI-powered speech-to-text generator that runs locally on one’s computer.
https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper - ELAN is a software that allows researchers to annotate and analyze communication in audio and video samples.
https://archive.mpi.nl/tla/elan
Data Analysis and Presentation
- The Data Visualization Catalogue is a great source for understanding how best to represent your data.
https://datavizcatalogue.com/ - Flexible Imputation of Missing Data by S. van Buuren is the main guide to using multiple imputation with datasets in R.
https://stefvanbuuren.name/fimd/