Assessing child-care quality: How well does Colorado's Qualistar quality rating and improvement system work?
A summary of a study of the relationship of child care center and family child care provider participation in the Colorado Qualistar Early Learning quality rating and improvement system to child care process quality and children's socioemotional and cognitive development
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Assessing the validity of the Qualistar Early Learning quality rating and improvement system as a tool for improving child-care quality
An evaluation of the Colorado Qualistar Early Learning quality rating and improvement system (QRIS), including: an assessment of system components and the relationships between them; a comparison of Qualistar measures to other established quality measures; and an examination of the association between quality improvements as measured by Qualistar components and children's socioemotional and cognitive outcomes.
Reports & Papers
Assessing the validity of the Qualistar Early Learning quality rating and improvement system as a tool for improving child-care quality [Executive summary]
A summary of a study of the relationship of child care center and family child care provider participation in the Colorado Qualistar Early Learning quality rating and improvement system to child care process quality and children's socioemotional and cognitive development
Executive Summary
Capturing the Heterogeneity in Quality within Early Care and Education Programs Serving Preschool-Age Children
The goal of this study is to improve our understanding of the variation in quality within and across classrooms. To achieve this goals we use two sources of rich data on program quality and child outcomes from centers serving preschool-age children. The study has three aims: (1) determine how to combine measures of the characteristics of individual staff members in a classroom to best capture quality at the classroom level; (2) determine whether quality should be measured at the level of the staff member, classroom or center; and (3) determine whether there are ways to improve the efficiency of measuring quality at the center, classroom, and staff-member levels. The research questions include: (1) How should staff quality attributes be combined to create classroom level scores that reflect actual quality?; (2) What is the optimal unit of analysis in studying ECE quality?; and (3) Are there ways to increase efficiencies in assessing ECE center quality?
Administration for Children and Families/OPRE Projects
Child care
An examination of child care issues, including quality, staff training, availability, and cost, in the policy and legislative context of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act (PRWORA) and California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) welfare reform efforts, with an analysis of related state and county-level concerns
Reports & Papers
Child-care quality rating and improvement systems in five pioneer states: Implementation issues and lessons learned
A study of the quality rating and improvement systems (QRIS) in five early QRIS-adopting states, including descriptions of: the theory of action underlying QRISs; each state's system, including the aspects of quality included in the system; the development of each state's system; and challenges facing system designers and lessons learned from these states, all based on in-depth interviews with 4 key stakeholders in each state
Reports & Papers
Child-care quality rating and improvement systems in five pioneer states: Implementation issues and lessons learned [Executive summary]
A summary of a study of the quality rating and improvement systems (QRIS) in five early QRIS-adopting states, including descriptions of: the theory of action underlying QRISs; each state's system, including the aspects of quality included in the system; the development of each state's system; and challenges facing system designers and lessons learned from these states, all based on in-depth interviews with 4 key stakeholders in each state
Executive Summary
Effective evaluation of quality rating and improvement systems for early care and education and school-age care
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
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Examining child care need among military families
A study of the child care choices and unmet child care needs of military families, based on a survey of families of active-duty military members
Reports & Papers
Examining child care need among military families [Executive summary]
A summary of a study of the child care choices and unmet child care needs of military families, based on a survey of families of active-duty military members
Executive Summary
Examining the cost of military child care
A study of the costs associated with providing care to children in Department of Defense (DoD)-operated Child Development Centers
(CDCs), Family Child Care (FCC) homes, and centers operated by
outside providers under contract
Reports & Papers
Examining the effects of accreditation on military child development center operations and outcomes
A study assessing the value of military Child Development Center accreditation over the benefits associated with Department of Defense certification
Reports & Papers
Examining the implementation and outcomes of the Military Child Care Act of 1989
A study of the Armed Services’ implementation of the Military Child Care Act of 1989 (MCCA), assessing the implementation of key MCCA provisions, examining the influence of MCCA on military child development centers, identifying and explaining the differences in implementation processes and outcomes across the four military services, examining the MCCA’s influence on both family child care and youth programs, and identifying policies and efforts to further improve the delivery of military child care and youth programs
Reports & Papers
Examining the psychometric properties of the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale-Revised (ECERS-R)
An investigation of the psychometric properties of the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale - Revised (ECERS-R), which replicates the findings of a 1994 evaluation of the original ECERS
Reports & Papers
Family Partnership
Instruments
Hawai'i P-3 initiative: Findings from the first year of the evaluation
Findings from the first year of an evaluation of Hawaii's preschool through third grade initiative that examined the initiative's implementation and its strengths and weaknesses from a systems-change perspective, based on document reviews and in-person and telephone interviews at 2 demonstration sites and with other staff
Reports & Papers
Hawai'i P-3 initiative: Findings from the first year of the evaluation [Executive summary]
A summary of findings from the first year of an evaluation of Hawaii's preschool through third grade initiative that examined the initiative's implementation and its strengths and weaknesses from a systems-change perspective, based on document reviews and in-person and telephone interviews at 2 demonstration sites and with other staff
Executive Summary
How would programs rate under California's proposed quality rating and improvement system?: Evidence from statewide and county data on early care and education program quality
An estimation of provider quality ratings under a proposed child care quality rating and improvement system in California, based on secondary analyses of quality data collected from a statewide representative sample of child care centers serving preschool-age children and from child care centers and family child care providers in San Francisco
Reports & Papers
How would programs rate under California's proposed quality rating and improvement system?: Evidence from statewide and county data on early care and education program quality [Executive summary]
A summary of an estimation of provider quality ratings under a proposed child care quality rating and improvement system in California, based on secondary analyses of quality data collected from a statewide representative sample of child care centers serving preschool-age children and from child care centers and family child care providers in San Francisco
Executive Summary
Improving the delivery of military child care: An analysis of current operations and new approaches
A survey-based assessment of how current military child care systems meet families' needs in terms of accessibility, quality, readiness, and affordability, and recommendations for new policies regarding the organization and structure of military child care
Reports & Papers
Investment or overkill: Should military child development centers be accredited?
A discussion of pressure put upon child care providers located on military installations to become accredited or certified
Reports & Papers
Measuring child-staff ratios in child care centers: Balancing effort and representativeness
An examination of the effectiveness of methods used to measure child-staff ratios in child care center classrooms, comparing ratio data from a single classroom over a short period of time with ratio data from multiple classrooms over longer periods of time
Reports & Papers
Meeting family and military needs through military child care
A description and discussion of policy objectives of the military child care system and a summary of survey results that clarify the degree to which the Department of Defense meets its child care goals from 1,137 respondents of a survey of active-duty military personnel and activated Reservists stationed in the United States
Reports & Papers
Military child care: Toward an integrated delivery system
An evaluation of whether child care services were meeting the needs of parents and military officials
Reports & Papers
Moving to outcomes: Approaches to incorporating child assessments into state early childhood quality rating and improvement systems
A discussion of 5 options for including child assessments in state child care quality rating and improvement systems
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