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Assessing States' Child Care Quality Rating Systems (QRS) Statewide or local child care Quality Rating Systems (QRS) are in place in 26 states and are under consideration in many others as tools to measure, monitor, and promote quality in early child care and education programs. The QRS Assessment produced a series of products as a resource to inform decision-making about and evaluation of QRS. Key products include: (1) a compendium of QRS, (2) two in-depth study reports (one focused on quality measurement and one on the role of QRIS in integration of the early care and education system); (3) a secondary data analysis on quality measurement, and (4) a toolkit for evaluating QRIS. Research questions include: (1) What is the variation in how select QRIS define and measure quality?; (2) What processes are used to measure components and determine an overall rating?; (2) What is the availability (and use) of consistent and reliable data on quality measurement?; (4) What role does QRIS have and to what extent does it contribute to integration of early care and education programs?; (5) How could states and localities monitor and assess the extent to which QRIS contribute to ECE system development?; (6) What is the prevalence of quality rating components across QRIS and at different levels?; (7) How does the prevalence of quality rating components differ between rating levels across QRIS and between types of providers (such as Head Start and accredited centers)?; (8) What is the unique effect of each quality component on observed quality?; and (9) What patterns of quality profiles emerge based on unique effects of components and how do these profiles map to actual rating levels in QRIS? |
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Better beginnings: Partnering with families for early learning home visit observations A summary of a study of the content and quality of home visits conducted through Partnering with Families for Early Learning, a home visiting program developed as part of the Early Learning Initiative in White Center and East Yakima, Washington |
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Better beginnings: The Seeds to Success Modified Field Test: Impact evaluation findings Findings from an impact evaluation of Seeds to Success, a quality rating and improvement system developed as part of the Early Learning Initiative in White Center and East Yakima, Washington |
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Better beginnings: The Seeds to Success Modified Field Test: Implementation lessons Lessons from the implementation evaluation of Seeds to Success, a quality rating and improvement system developed as part of the Early Learning Initiative in White Center and East Yakima, Washington |
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Better beginnings: The state of early learning and kindergarten readiness in East Yakima An overview of children, families, school readiness, and early learning services and quality in East Yakima, Washington, prior to the start of the East Yakima Early Learning Initiative, part of a 10-year strategy to improve children's school readiness in Washington State |
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Better beginnings: The state of early learning and kindergarten readiness in East Yakima and White Center An overview of children, families, school readiness, and early learning services and quality in East Yakima and White Center, Washington, prior to the start of the East Yakima and White Center Early Learning Initiatives, parts of a 10-year strategy to improve children's school readiness in Washington State |
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Better beginnings: The state of early learning and kindergarten readiness in White Center An overview of children, families, school readiness, and early learning services and quality in White Center, Washington, prior to the start of the White Center Early Learning Initiative (WCELI), part of a 10-year strategy to improve children's school readiness in Washington State |
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Building a community-wide early learning system: East Yakima at baseline Baseline findings from a multi-year implementation evaluation, one of four components in an overall evaluation, of the East Yakima Early Learning Initiative, part of a 10-year strategy to improve children's school readiness in Washington State, that examined the East Yakima community, the availability and quality of child care services there, the East Yakima Early Learning Initiative planning process, and the community's goals and expectations for East Yakima Early Learning Initiative implementation |
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Building a community-wide early learning system: East Yakima at baseline [Executive summary] A summary of baseline findings from a multi-year implementation evaluation, one of four components in an overall evaluation, of the East Yakima Early Learning Initiative, part of a 10-year strategy to improve children's school readiness in Washington State, that examined the East Yakima community, the availability and quality of child care services there, the East Yakima Early Learning Initiative planning process, and the community's goals and expectations for East Yakima Early Learning Initiative implementation |
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Building a community-wide early learning system: White Center at baseline Baseline findings from a multi-year implementation evaluation, one of four components in an overall evaluation, of the White Center Early Learning Initiative (WCELI), part of a 10-year strategy to improve children's school readiness in Washington State, that examined the White Center community, the availability and quality of child care services there, the WCELI planning process, and the community's goals and expectations for WCELI implementation |
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Building a community-wide early learning system: White Center at baseline [Executive summary] A summary of baseline findings from a multi-year implementation evaluation, one of four components in an overall evaluation, of the White Center Early Learning Initiative (WCELI), part of a 10-year strategy to improve children's school readiness in Washington State, that examined the White Center community, the availability and quality of child care services there, the WCELI planning process, and the community's goals and expectations for WCELI implementation |
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Building strong Ready to Learn outreach A substudy of the comprehensive evaluation of Ready to Learn, a program in which Public Broadcasting Service member stations broadcast a mandated number of hours of children's programming, and coordinators at each station engage in outreach activities to facilitate the use of this programming as an educational tool, with a focus on coordinators' outreach activities and their views on a Ready to Learn professional development seminar |
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Building strong Ready to Learn outreach [Executive summary] A summary of a substudy of the comprehensive evaluation of Ready to Learn, a program in which Public Broadcasting Service member stations broadcast a mandated number of hours of children's programming and coordinators at each station engage in outreach activities to facilitate the use of this programming as an educational tool, that focused on coordinators' outreach activities and their views on a Ready to Learn professional development seminar |
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Building their futures: How Early Head Start programs are enhancing the lives of infants and toddlers in low-income families An interim report of the random assignment, impact evaluation of the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, analyzing child and family outcomes through the first two years of children's lives. |
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Building their futures: How Early Head Start programs are enhancing the lives of infants and toddlers in low-income families: Summary report A summary of findings from the interim report of the random assignment, impact evaluation of the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project. |
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Building their futures: How Early Head Start programs are enhancing the lives of infants and toddlers in low-income families: Volume II. Technical report appendixes A compendium of studies on the influence of participation in an Early Head Start program on children’s outcomes |
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Building their futures: How Early Head Start programs are enhancing the lives of infants and toddlers in low-income families: Volume I. Technical report An evaluation of the effectiveness of Early Head Start programs in improving children's outcomes, based on a national assessment of 3,000 children at 17 sites |
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Child care quality matters: How conclusions may vary with context An analysis of three national studies on child care quality and the impact of quality on child development |
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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 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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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] 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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The Child Care Quality Rating System (QRS) Assessment: Compendium of quality rating systems and evaluations A compendium of information on quality rating systems of child care and early education programs, including a proposal of an analytic framework for the assessment and evaluation of quality rating systems and profiles of such systems in 26 states |
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The Child Care Quality Rating System (QRS) Assessment: Compendium of quality rating systems and evaluations [Executive summary] A summary of a compendium of information on quality rating systems of child care and early education programs, including a proposal of an analytic framework for the assessment and evaluation of quality rating systems and profiles of such systems in 26 states |
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The Child Care Quality Rating System (QRS) Assessment: Defining and measuring quality: An in-depth study of five child care quality rating and improvement systems An examination of aspects of child care quality rating and improvement systems related to definitions and measures of quality, including variation in definitions and measures, processes to measure each component and determine the overall level of quality, and availability of data on quality ratings, based on in-depth case studies in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee |
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The Child Care Quality Rating System (QRS) Assessment: Defining and measuring quality: An in-depth study of five child care quality rating and improvement systems [Executive summary] A summary of an examination of aspects of child care quality rating and improvement systems related to definitions and measures of quality, including variation in definitions and measures, processes to measure each component and determine the overall level of quality, and availability of data on quality ratings, based on in-depth case studies in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee |
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