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			Achieving excellence in early care for Virginia's infants and toddlers Virginia Infant & Toddler Specialist Network, Summer 2009 Charlottesville, VA: Virgina Infant & Toddler Specialist Network. A discussion of the role of data collection in the improvement of the quality of early childhood education and care programs in Virginia	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Assessing initiatives for family, friend, and neighbor child care: An overview of models and evaluations Porter, Toni, March 2007 (Research-to-Policy Connections No. 5). New York: Child Care & Early Education Research Connections A description of current efforts to support and enhance home-based, regulation-exempt child care provided by family, friends, and/or neighbors, and of the documentation and evaluation of these efforts	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Assessing program quality Aytch, Lynette S., February 1999 (NCEDL Spotlights No. 7). Chapel Hill, NC: National Center for Early Development and Learning. A discussion of the purposes, strengths and opportunities of the Early Intervention Services Assessment Scale (EISAS) for the comprehensive assessment of the quality of early intervention programs and services	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Assessing strengths-based delivery of services for children and families: Data Trends: #113 March 2005 Portland State University. Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health, 2005 An overview of the development of the Strengths-Based Practices Inventory (SBPI), a measure designed to assess the usage of strengths-based practices within early childhood and family support programs	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Beyond the head count: Evaluating family involvement in out-of-school time Caspe, Margaret, 2002 (Issues and Opportunities in Out-of-School Time Evaluation Brief No. 4). Cambridge, MA: Harvard Family Research Project. A brief on methods used in the evaluation of family involvement in out-of-school-time programs	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			California Afterschool Outcome Measures Project field test findings California Afterschool Outcome Measures Project, February, 2012 Irvine, CA: California Afterschool Outcome Measures Project. A summary of findings from a field test of the California Afterschool Outcome Measures Project Online Toolbox, an online survey of student behavior change and skill development for use in after school programs, that examines teacher and student survey administration experiences, student reports of after school program experiences, changes in student skill and behavior outcomes, and associations of student program experiences to their skill and behavior outcomes, based on data collected from students and teachers at 28 after school programs in fall 2010 and spring 2011	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			The Chicago Program Evaluation Project: C-PEP: What is C-PEP?: An independent evaluation of early childhood education conducted by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. with funding support from McCormick Foundation Herr Research Center, Chicago: Herr Research Center. An overview of the methodology used to conduct a study of four-year-old children and their experiences in early childhood education programs in Chicago in the 2006-2007 school year	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP): Improper payments data collection pilot project United States. Food and Nutrition Service. Office of Research and Analysis, September, 2009 Alexandria, VA: U.S. Food and Nutrition Service, Office of Research and Analysis. A summary of a comparison of the quality and costs of four methods for estimating the true number of meals served by family child care homes participating in the Child and Adult Care Food Program in order to reduce improper payments to providers for submitting erroneous meal counts	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Child care assets: What are 14 key assets of child care providers that support quality? University of Nebraska--Lincoln. Center on Children, Families, and the Law, (Policy Brief No. 1). University of Nebraska--Lincoln, Center on Children, Families, and the Law. A briefing of the use of the Asset Index for Child Care Providers as a measure of the quality of child care providers in Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska, the Asset Index includes 14 provider and workforce characteristics	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Conceptualization of narrative elements found in educational television: An update Taylor-Piotrowski, Jessica L., April, 2008 (Research Brief Vol. 2, No. 4). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, Children's Media Lab. An update on the development an instrument to measure the structure of televised narratives	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Considerations for future research with young dual language learners Center for Early Care and Education Research: Dual Language Learners, 2011 (Research Brief No. 3). Chapel Hill, NC: Center for Early Care and Education Research: Dual Language Learners. A summary of a meeting convened to identify gaps in knowledge and methodological challenges in conducting research with young dual language learners	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			The costs and benefits of earlier identification and effective intervention Great Britain. Department for Education and Skills, January 2004 (Research Brief No. RB505). Nottingham, United Kingdom: Great Britain, Department for Education and Skills. A discussion of the background, goals and data requirements of a potential cost-benefit analysis of early detection and intervention programs for children with autism spectrum disorders or at risk of low educational attainment	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Critical Incident Technique: A valuable research tool for early intervention University of Kentucky. National Early Childhood Transition Center, May 2006 Lexington: University of Kentucky, National Early Childhood Transition Center. An overview of Critical Incident Technique, a research method based on studying participants' experiences of critical incidents, and its use in a study of early childhood transition practices	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			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	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Detangling data collection: Methods for gathering data Bouffard, Suzanne, 2004 (Out-of-School Time Evaluation Snapshot No. 5). Cambridge, MA: Harvard Family Research Project. A review of different data collection methods used in evaluations of school age child care programs	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Developing a unified performance measurement system National-Louis University. McCormick Tribune Center for Early Childhood Leadership, Fall 2009 (Research Notes Fall 2009). Wheeling, IL: National-Louis University, McCormick Tribune Center for Early Childhood Leadership. Findings from a study on a comparison of the efficacies of the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale-Revised (ECERS-R) and the Program Administration Scale (PAS) in the assessment of the quality of early childhood experiences in center-based, Head Start, and a state-funded prekindergarten settings	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			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	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Early care and education programs: What does research tell us about their effects on child development? Horton, Carol, May 2007 Chicago: Herr Research Center. A summary of a review of the research designs and findings of notable research initiatives that focus on early care and education programs including Head Start, child care programs, and state prekindergarten programs	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Early care and education quality measures: A critical review of the research related to dual language learners Center for Early Care and Education Research: Dual Language Learners, 2011 (Research Brief No. 5). Chapel Hill, NC: Center for Early Care and Education Research: Dual Language Learners. A review of research on the use of quality measures in center- and home-based early care and education settings for children from birth through age 5, with a focus on dual language learners, based on an examination of 9 peer-reviewed studies published from 2000 through 2010	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Early childhood assessment: Why, what, and how? National Research Council (U.S.), October, 2008 Washington, DC: National Research Council, Board on Children, Youth, and Families. A summary of a discussion of developmental outcomes for children from birth to age five and a review of instruments used in developmental assessment	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			An early childhood research agenda for Connecticut Duran, Frances, 2003 Farmington, CT: Child Health and Development Institute. An outline of ten early childhood policy research areas recommended by partners in the Early Childhood DataCONNections project as priorities for Connecticut	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Early Excellence Centre pilot programme: Second evaluation report 2000-2001 Bertram, Tony, July 2002 (Research Brief No. RB361). Nottingham, United Kingdom: Great Britain, Department for Education and Skills. A summary of the second year evaluation of the Early Excellence Centres pilot program, discussing early evidence on functioning, program effectiveness, program design and implementation, and highlighting key issues for future development and improvements	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			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
			Evaluating, developing, and enhancing domain-specific measures of child care quality Forry, Nicole D., May, 2009 (Publication No. 2009-16, OPRE Research-to-Policy Brief No. 2). Washington, DC: Child Trends. A discussion of measuring child care quality by identifying child care and early education practices and features associated with child development in specific domains, including language and literacy, math, science, and cognition, socioemotional competence, and health, safety, and nutrition	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Evaluating municipal out-of-school time initiatives: Learning from the field Little, Priscilla, 2002 Cambridge, MA: Harvard Family Research Project. A brief on methods used in the evaluation of out-of-school time programs	Fact Sheets & Briefs

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