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Mixed Methods Investigation of Quality Rating Systems' Influence on Program, Classroom, and Teacher Quality In an effort to improve and unify early care and education, policymakers in numerous states have developed quality rating and improvement systems, a policy that establishes common quality standards for early childhood programs. This study explored the relationship between Colorado's Qualistar Rating System and process and structural dimensions of quality as measured by the ECERS. By analyzing the association between program characteristics and changes in quality as well as by assessing the transcendence of quality definitions, I also investigated how it is unifying the early care and education system. The research questions are: (1) In what ways, if any, does participation in Colorado's QRIS relate to classrooms' process quality?; (2) In what ways, if any, does participation in Colorado's QRIS relate to classrooms' structural quality?; and (3) In what ways, if any, is Colorado's QRIS impacting the emerging ECE system? |
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Social and Economic Disparities in North Carolina Communities: Issues of Access and Quality in Licensed Child Care This study evalutates access to high-quality child care across North Carolina communities. Multiple data sources are used in hierarchical linear models utilizing two and three levels to inform future state and national policies that promote equitable access to high quality child care across community contexts. The study includes three aims: (1) to estimate the availablility of high quality licensed child care programs in communities throughout North Carolina; (2) to examine the relationship between the socioeconomic context of communities and child care quality; and (3) to compare community socioeconomic contexts of child care programs participating in voluntary Environment Rating Scale assessments with child care programs not participating. |
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Strengthening Families Illinois: How Management and Policy Interventions Influence the Quality of Professional-Parent Partnerships in Child Care The goals of this multiple case study were to: (1) identify how Strengthening Families Illinois (SFI) influenced changes in child care programs; (2) identify theorized characteristics of conventional and relational child care organizations; and (3) test the hypothesis that conventional bureaucratic organizational systems discourage partnerships with families, whereas relational bureaucratic organizations are more conducive to partnerships with families. |
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