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The Child Care Quality Rating System (QRS) Assessment: North Carolina Star Rated License System: QRS profile
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, April, 2010
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A profile of North Carolina Star Rated License System, the state’s former child care quality rating and licensing system for early childhood education and care programs, including information on rating guidelines, quality indicators, curriculum, staff qualifications, family engagement, and program administration

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The Child Care Quality Rating System (QRS) Assessment: Ohio Step Up to Quality: QRS profile
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, April 2010
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A profile of Ohio Step Up to Quality, the state’s former child care quality rating and licensing system for early childhood education and care programs, including information on rating guidelines, quality indicators, curriculum, staff qualifications, and program administration

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The Child Care Quality Rating System (QRS) Assessment: Oklahoma Reaching for the Stars: QRS profile
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, April 2010
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A profile of Oklahoma Reaching for the Stars, the state’s former child care quality rating and licensing system for early childhood education and care programs, including information on rating guidelines, quality indicators, staff qualifications, family engagement, and program administration

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I Am Moving, I Am Learning: Early findings from the implementation of an obesity prevention enhancement in Head Start Region III
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation,
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A summary of study of the implementation of I Am Moving, I Am Learning (IM/IL), a Head Start program enhancement intended to increase the amount of time devoted to moderate to vigorous physical activity, improve the quality of stuctured movement activities, and promote healthy food choices, based on a survey of staff members who had been trained to implement IM/IL in their Head Start program

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Child care for welfare participants in rural areas
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2000
(Rural Welfare Issue Brief). Washington, DC: Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A brief on the child care arrangements of the rural population.

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Measuring the quality of early care and education programs at the intersection of research, policy, and practice
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, December 2010
(Research-to-Policy, Research-to-Practice Brief OPRE 2011-10a). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A discussion of challenges in measuring early care and education quality in policy contexts, such as in quality rating and improvement systems (QRIS)

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Observational measures of quality in center-based early care and education programs
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, December 2010
(Research-to-Policy, Research-to-Practice Brief OPRE 2011-10c). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A discussion of the characteristics and purposes of center-based early care and education classroom quality observational measures

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Defining and measuring quality in home-based settings
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, December 2010
(Research-to-Policy, Research-to-Practice Brief OPRE 2011-10d). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A discussion of the characteristics of home-based early care and education program quality observational measures

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Differentiating among measures of quality: Key characteristics and their coverage in existing measures
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, December 2010
(Research-to-Policy, Research-to-Practice Brief OPRE 2011-10b). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A discussion of features among which early care and education quality measures differ

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Quality rating and improvement systems (QRIS) and family-sensitive caregiving in early care and education arrangements: Promising directions and challenges
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, October, 2011
(Issue Brief OPRE 2011-11d). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A discussion of the alignment of family-sensitive care model concepts with child care quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) indicators for family partnerships

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Best practices for conducting program observations as part of quality rating and improvement systems
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, June, 2011
(Research-to-Policy, Research-to-Practice Brief OPRE 2011-11b). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A discussion of considerations for the use of program observation as part of quality rating and improvement systems, including issues related to measurement selection, planning and conducting observations, and scoring and reporting

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Evaluation of quality rating and improvement systems for early childhood programs and school-age care: Measuring children's development
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, June, 2011
(Research-to-Policy, Research-to-Practice Brief OPRE 2011-11c). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A discussion of considerations for the use of child development measures as part of the evaluation of quality rating and improvement systems

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Supporting quality in home-based child care: Final brief
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, March 31, 2010
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

Highlights of findings from an examination of the prevalence and quality of home-based child care, with a focus on programs and initiatives to improve the quality and outcomes of children who attend

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Evaluation of Child Care Subsidy Strategies: Follow-up study of the participants in Project Upgrade in Miami-Dade: Research brief
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, June, 2010
(OPRE Report No. 2011-36). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

Findings from a follow-up study of the impacts on early elementary children's reading and math achievement of two early language and literacy interventions that had been implemented in classrooms for 4-year-olds at child care centers serving children from low-income families in Miami-Dade County, Florida

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The Child Care Quality Rating System (QRS) Assessment: Child care quality rating and improvement systems: Approaches to integrating programs for young children in two states
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, August, 2011
(OPRE Report 2011-28). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

An examination of the role, and how to assess the role, that state child care quality rating and improvement systems can play in early childhood care and education system integration and development, based on document reviews, administrator interviews, and two-day site visits in Indiana and Pennsylvania

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2012 report: Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Supplement to the National Agricultural Worker Survey
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, March, 2012
(OPRE Report No. 2012-13). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

Findings on the characteristics of families with children under 6 years old from the National Agricultural Worker Survey (NAWS), a national random sample survey of crop farmworkers, and findings on families' child care experiences from the NAWS Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Supplement, which is administered to NAWS respondents with children under the age of 6

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Can we trust parental reports of child care subsidy receipt?
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, December, 2012
(Methodological Brief OPRE 2012-53). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A study of the incidence and implications of measurement error in parental reports of child care subsidy receipt in survey data, based on parent and provider reports of subsidy receipt from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a national longitudinal cohort study

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Developing measures of child care as a support to employment and self-sufficiency
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 25 August, 2006
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation

An exploration of factors involved in the development of performance indicators to track the effects of child care programs and subsidies on the employment outcomes of low-income working families, including an overview of current federal policies, research, and data availability

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Lessons learned from the Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness review
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 31 January, 2011
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

Lessons learned from a review of research on the effectiveness of home visiting programs for pregnant women or families with children from birth to age 5

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Validation of quality rating and improvement systems for early care and education and school-age care
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, April, 2012
(Research-to-Policy, Research-to-Practice Brief OPRE2012-29). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A discussion of considerations to ensure that program quality standards and measurement strategies in child care quality rating and improvement systems produce accurate and meaningful ratings

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The Child Care Quality Rating System (QRS) Assessment: Child care quality rating and improvement systems: Approaches to integrating programs for young children in two states [Executive summary]
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, August, 2011
(OPRE Report 2011-28). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A summary of an examination of the role, and how to assess the role, that state child care quality rating and improvement systems can play in early childhood care and education system integration and development, based on document reviews, administrator interviews, and two-day site visits in Indiana and Pennsylvania

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Studying child care subsidies with secondary data sources: CCPRC subsidy workgroup methodology research brief series
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, December, 2012
(Methodological Brief OPRE 2012-54). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A discussion of the features of four large-scale data sets relevant to the study of child care subsidies

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Effective evaluation of quality rating and improvement systems for early care and education and school-age care
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, June, 2011
(Research-to-Policy, Research-to-Practice Brief OPRE 2011-11a). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

An overview of methodological design options for quality rating and improvement systems used to evaluate and improve the quality of early childhood education and school-aged care (ECE-SAC) systems

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Family engagement and family-sensitive caregiving: Identifying common core elements and issues related to measurement
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, October, 2011
(Issue Brief OPRE 2011-26b). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A summary of a meeting on the identification of core elements of and methods to measure family engagement and family-sensitive caregiving in early care and education settings

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Family-provider relationships: A multidisciplinary review of high quality practices and associations with family, child, and provider outcomes
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, October, 2011
(Issue Brief OPRE 2011-26a). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A review of research to identify high-quality practices in family-provider relationships and explore the relationship of these practices to child, family, and provider outcomes

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