Robert C. Pianta

60.9k citations
330 papers · 39.1k · 29 hit papers · h-index 101

Impact in

  • Education top 0.01%
    • Early Childhood Education and Development
    • Parental Involvement in Education
    • Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
    • Child Development and Digital Technology
    • Educational and Psychological Assessments
    • Reading and Literacy Development

Papers in

    • Early Childhood Education and Development 239
    • Parental Involvement in Education 153
    • Teacher Education and Leadership Studies 45
    • School Choice and Performance 24
    • Child Development and Digital Technology 19
    • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development 94
    • Family and Disability Support Research 35

Robert C. Pianta

322 papers receiving 35.1k citations

Robert C. Pianta's Hit Papers

Do teachers’ years of experience make a difference in the quality of teaching? 2020 · 138 citations
1380+6+12Years since publication4008001.2k

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Robert C. Pianta
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  • Education 32.9k
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology 9.6k
  • Clinical Psychology 14.8k
  • Safety Research 2.4k
  • Social Psychology 4.2k
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Early Teacher–Child Relationships and the Trajectory of Children's School Outcomes through Eighth Grade
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20012120
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Measures of Classroom Quality in Prekindergarten and Children’s Development of Academic, Language, and Social Skills
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20081317
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Can Instructional and Emotional Support in the First-Grade Classroom Make a Difference for Children at Risk of School Failure?
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20051213
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Enhancing relationships between children and teachers.
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19991210
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Conceptualization, Measurement, and Improvement of Classroom Processes: Standardized Observation Can Leverage Capacity
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2009897
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Ready to learn? Children's pre-academic achievement in pre-Kindergarten programs
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2007733
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Teacher-Child Relationships and Children's Success in the First Years of School
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2004718
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Teachers’ judgments of problems in the transition to kindergarten
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2000712
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The first two years of school: Teacher-child relationships and deflections in children's classroom adjustment
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1995649
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Teachers' Education, Classroom Quality, and Young Children's Academic Skills: Results From Seven Studies of Preschool Programs
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2007640
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An Ecological Perspective on the Transition to Kindergarten
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2000626
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Features of Pre-Kindergarten Programs, Classrooms, and Teachers: Do They Predict Observed Classroom Quality and Child-Teacher Interactions?
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2005620
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Recent trends in research on teacher–child relationships
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2012597
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School Readiness and the Transition to Kindergarten in the Era of Accountability.
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2007567
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Effects of web-mediated professional development resources on teacher–child interactions in pre-kindergarten classrooms
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2008520
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Development of Academic Skills from Preschool Through Second Grade: Family and Classroom Predictors of Developmental Trajectories
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2002519
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Threshold analysis of association between child care quality and child outcomes for low-income children in pre-kindergarten programs
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2009514
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The Classroom Assessment Scoring System: Findings from the Prekindergarten Year
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2004467
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Teaching through Interactions
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2013457
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Quality of language and literacy instruction in preschool classrooms serving at-risk pupils
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2008453

About Robert C. Pianta

Robert C. Pianta is a scholar working on Education, Clinical Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, having authored 330 papers that have together received 39.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Early Childhood Education and Development (239 papers), Parental Involvement in Education (153 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (94 papers), Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (45 papers), Educational and Psychological Assessments (42 papers), Family and Disability Support Research (35 papers), School Choice and Performance (24 papers) and Child Development and Digital Technology (19 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Education (32.9k citations), Developmental and Educational Psychology (9.6k citations), Clinical Psychology (14.8k citations), Safety Research (2.4k citations) and Social Psychology (4.2k citations). Robert C. Pianta has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include Bridget K. Hamre, Margaret Burchinal, Jason T. Downer, Andrew J. Mashburn, Carollee Howes, Sara E. Rimm‐Kaufman, Martha J. Cox, Karen M. La Paro, Megan Stuhlman and Diane Early. Their work appears in journals such as Early Childhood Research Quarterly, Early Education and Development, Child Development, School Psychology Review and Journal of School Psychology.

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