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Getting Ready: Final evaluation report
Isner, Tabitha K., January, 2012
Minneapolis, MN: Child Trends.

An evaluation of Parent Aware Getting Ready Project, a program to assist child care providers in preparing for entry into the Minnesota Parent Aware quality rating and improvement system, that examines child care provider characteristics, services received, quality improvement, and enrollment in Parent Aware, based on administrative data, project staff interviews and surveys, and provider self-assessments and surveys

Reports & Papers

Identifying profiles of quality in home-based child care [Executive summary]
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, April, 2012
(Issue Brief OPRE 2012-20). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A summary of a study to identify profiles of child care quality among a sample of family child care providers and to examine provider characteristics associated with each profile, based on an analysis of observational and survey data collected from 341 family child care providers in the Quality Interventions for Early Care and Education (QUINCE) Partnerships for Inclusion (PFI) study

Executive Summary

Kentucky STARS for KIDS NOW process evaluation: Evaluation of Kentucky's child care resource & referral system
Starr, Rebecca, January, 2012
(Evaluation Brief No. 7). Washington, DC: Child Trends.

A study of the child care resource and referral system in Kentucky, including provider and parent services and community stakeholder collaboration, based on surveys of resource and referral training participants, interviews with resource and referral agency staff and stakeholders, and analyses of administrative and other secondary data

Reports & Papers

Kentucky STARS for KIDS NOW process evaluation: Findings from the Kentucky Early Care and Education and School-Age Care Household Survey
Starr, Rebecca, January, 2012
(Evaluation Brief No. 8). Washington, DC: Child Trends.

A study of Kentucky households' child care use, selection, options, and expenses, based on interviews with 501 randomly selected Kentucky households with children who are 12 years old or younger and in child care

Reports & Papers

On-site approaches to quality improvement in quality rating and improvement systems: Building on the research on coaching
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, November, 2012
(Research-to-Policy, Research-to-Practice Brief OPRE2012-40). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

An examination of research on coaching, as well as other on-site quality improvement strategies, in child care quality rating and improvement systems

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