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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Examing family child care quality from a business perspective
National-Louis University. McCormick Tribune Center for Early Childhood Leadership, Winter 2009
(Research Notes Winter 2009). Wheeling, IL: National-Louis University, McCormick Tribune Center for Early Childhood Leadership.

A summary of a reliability and validity study of the Business Administration Scale for Family Child Care, an instrument that measures the quality of family child care providers' business and professional practices

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Family engagement and family-sensitive caregiving: Identifying common core elements and issues related to measurement
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, October, 2011
(Issue Brief OPRE 2011-26b). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A summary of a meeting on the identification of core elements of and methods to measure family engagement and family-sensitive caregiving in early care and education settings

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Fulfilling the promise of Abbott: The Lighthouse assessment process: Improving programs through measured outcomes
Association for Children of New Jersey, Spring 2004
Newark, NJ: The Association for Children of New Jersey.

An outline of the assessment process and its effects on program planning at the Lighthouse Initiative in Newark, New Jersey

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Improving after-school program quality
Granger, Robert C., April, 2007
New York: William T. Grant Foundation.

A summary of findings from two studies, one of which reviews the impacts of after school programs on personal and social development and the other of which reviews instruments that measure the quality of youth programs

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Improving quality in the early years: A comparison of perspectives and measures: Full research brief: Summary and overview of findings, conclusions and recommendations
Mathers, Sandra, 2012
London: Daycare Trust.

A summary of a study in England of stakeholder perceptions of early years education and care quality and the alignment of these perceptions with definitions of quality embedded in three approaches to quality measurement, as well as an examination of the associations among quality ratings produced by these three approaches, based on focus groups with parents, providers, and local authorities, and analyses of regulatory inspection reports, environment rating scales data, and quality assurance scheme participation data

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It takes a child to raise a community: ‘Population-based’ measurement of early child development
Hertzman, Clyde, July 2007
(Research Brief No. 1). Vancouver, Canada: University of British Columbia, Human Early Learning Partnership.

A description of the census of population-level early child development, using the Early Development Instrument (EDI), in British Columbia, Canada

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Kindergarten readiness study: Parent and teacher assessment of academic preparedness
Bright Horizons Family Solutions,
Watertown, MA: Bright Horizons Family Solutions.

An evaluation of Bright Horizons Child Care Center graduates’ preparedness for their transition into primary school, based on results from a survey of parents and teachers of kindergartners who graduated from 20 Bright Horizons’ centers in 1999

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Measuring quality in early childhood education
First Things First,
Phoenix, AZ: First Things First.

A discussion of efforts to improve child care quality in Arizona and of quality measures used in Quality First, Arizona's child care quality rating and improvement system

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Measuring teacher-child interactions in linguistically diverse pre-k classrooms
Downer, Jason T.,
Charlottesville: University of Virginia, Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning.

A summary of a test of the validity of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) for the prediction of academic outcomes and the measurement of social interactions in classrooms with varying compositions of English only and dual language learners, based on a secondary analysis of data collected in 721 prekindergarten classrooms in 11 states

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Measuring what matters: Meeting the high-stakes accountability challange [challenge] on our own terms
National Institute on Out-of-School Time (U.S.),
(After School Issues Issue 1). Wellesley, MA: National Institute on Out-of-School Time.

A summary of a study of the methods and challenges in measuring the outcomes and results of out-of-school time initiatives and programs

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Observational measures of quality in center-based early care and education programs
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, December 2010
(Research-to-Policy, Research-to-Practice Brief OPRE 2011-10c). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A discussion of the characteristics and purposes of center-based early care and education classroom quality observational measures

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Practices and policies: Market rate surveys in states, territories, and tribes: Crow Tribe - 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 Crow Tribe

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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

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Practices and policies: Market rate surveys in states, territories, and tribes: Mescalero Apache Tribe - New Mexico [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 Mescalero Apache Tribe

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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

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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

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