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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

Fact Sheets & Briefs

Practices and policies: Market rate surveys in states, territories, and tribes
Weber, Roberta B. (Bobbie), May 2007
Corvallis, OR: Oregon Child Care Research Partnership

Findings from a study examining current child care market rate survey methods, practices, and policies in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, territories, and tribes, including descriptions of challenges faced by jurisdictions in conducting surveys, and methods of providing study data

Reports & Papers

Practices and policies: Market rate surveys in states, territories, and tribes: Fort Peck Tribes Assiniboine & Sioux [Tribe profile]
Weber, Roberta B. (Bobbie), May 2007
Corvallis, OR: Oregon Child Care Research Partnership

A summary of data related to current child care market rate survey methods, practices, and policies of the Assiniboine and Sioux, Fort Peck Reservation

Fact Sheets & Briefs

Practices and policies: Market rate surveys in states, territories, and tribes: Northern Cheyenne Tribal Council - Montana [Tribe profile]
Weber, Roberta B. (Bobbie), May 2007
Corvallis, OR: Oregon Child Care Research Partnership

A summary of data related to current child care market rate survey methods, practices, and policies of the Northern Cheyenne Tribal Council

Fact Sheets & Briefs

Practices and policies: Market rate surveys in states, territories, and tribes [State profiles]
Weber, Roberta B. (Bobbie), May 2007
Corvallis, OR: Oregon Child Care Research Partnership

A presentation of current child care market rate survey data collected by all 50 states and the District of Columbia

Fact Sheets & Briefs

Predictors of child care subsidy use: Table of methods and findings
Schaefer, Stephanie A., 2005
New York: Child Care & Early Education Research Connections

A table of methods and findings on child care subsidy use

Table Of Findings

Research Connections
Kreader, J. Lee, 2003
Columbia University, National Center for Children in Poverty

The purpose of Child Care and Early Education Research Connections is to promote high quality research and to help inform policy. One of the primary ways we accomplish that goal is through an interactive and easily searchable website of over 18,000 resources on early care and education, including original scholarly research, government reports, fact sheets and briefs, datasets and instruments. Additionally, Research Connections produces its own publications that synthesize research on key topics, and organizes various webinars on new research geared towards policymakers and others in the early education field. The project is operated through a partnership between the National Center for Children in Poverty, at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, at the University of Michigan. Objectives include: (1) ensure the long-term sustainability of Research Connections through new technology and standards-based architecture; (2) ensure a constantly evolving, complete and up-to-date collection, responsive to the needs of the early care and education community; (3) maintain and grow the archive of datasets, as well as the community of analysts who use them, (4)maximize usefulness of the site and respond to the community's varied needs for information, and (5) expand collaborative activities to bring in new stakeholders and partners at the local, regional and national level.

Administration for Children and Families/OPRE Projects

A toolkit for evaluating initiatives to improve child care quality
Porter, Toni, 2003
New York: Bank Street College of Education, Institute for a Child Care Continuum.

A toolkit for policymakers and child care administrators to use in the design and conducting of child care quality initiative evaluations

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