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The Child Care Quality Rating System (QRS) Assessment: Compendium of quality rating systems and evaluations
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, April, 2010
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A compendium of information on quality rating systems of child care and early education programs, including a proposal of an analytic framework for the assessment and evaluation of quality rating systems and profiles of such systems in 26 states

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The Child Care Quality Rating System (QRS) Assessment: Compendium of quality rating systems and evaluations [Executive summary]
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, April 2010
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A summary of a compendium of information on quality rating systems of child care and early education programs, including a proposal of an analytic framework for the assessment and evaluation of quality rating systems and profiles of such systems in 26 states

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The Child Care Quality Rating System (QRS) Assessment: Measuring quality across three child care quality rating and improvement systems: Findings from secondary analyses
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, August, 2011
(OPRE Report 2011-30). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A study of the prevalence of quality components among participating child care quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) providers and their relationship to observed quality, based on analyses of QRIS administrative data, professional development registries, and observation data in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Illinois, and Tennessee

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The Child Care Quality Rating System (QRS) Assessment: Measuring quality across three child care quality rating and improvement systems: Findings from secondary analyses [Executive summary]
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, August, 2011
(OPRE Report 2011-30). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A summary of a study of the prevalence of quality components among participating child care quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) providers and their relationship to observed quality, based on analyses of QRIS administrative data, professional development registries, and observation data in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Illinois, and Tennessee

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The Child Care Quality Rating System (QRS) Assessment: The Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) Evaluation Toolkit
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, August, 2011
(OPRE Report 2011-31). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A guide to planning and conducting child care quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) evaluations

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Early care and education quality and child outcomes
Burchinal, Margaret, May 2009
(Publication No. 2009-15, OPRE Research-to-Policy Brief No. 1). Washington, DC: Child Trends.

An overview of research on the relationship of child care and early education quality to children's cognitive, social, and academic development

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Identifying profiles of quality in home-based child care
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, April, 2012
(Issue Brief OPRE 2012-20). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A study to identify profiles of child care quality among a sample of family child care providers and to examine provider characteristics associated with each profile, based on an analysis of observational and survey data collected from 341 family child care providers in the Quality Interventions for Early Care and Education (QUINCE) Partnerships for Inclusion (PFI) study

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Identifying profiles of quality in home-based child care [Executive summary]
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, April, 2012
(Issue Brief OPRE 2012-20). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A summary of a study to identify profiles of child care quality among a sample of family child care providers and to examine provider characteristics associated with each profile, based on an analysis of observational and survey data collected from 341 family child care providers in the Quality Interventions for Early Care and Education (QUINCE) Partnerships for Inclusion (PFI) study

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Issues for the next decade of quality rating and improvement systems
Tout, Kathryn, May, 2009
(Publication No. 2009-14, OPRE Issue Brief No. 3). Washington, DC: Child Trends.

A discussion of issues related to quality rating and improvement systems (QRISs), including new challenges facing QRISs, QRIS research and evaluation, QRIS design and implementation, and tools for guiding QRIS evaluation efforts

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Measuring the quality of early care and education programs at the intersection of research, policy, and practice
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, December 2010
(Research-to-Policy, Research-to-Practice Brief OPRE 2011-10a). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A discussion of challenges in measuring early care and education quality in policy contexts, such as in quality rating and improvement systems (QRIS)

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Multiple purposes for measuring quality in early childhood settings: Implications for collecting and communicating information on quality
Zaslow, Martha, May 2009
(Publication No. 2009-13, OPRE Issue Brief No. 2). Washington, DC: Child Trends.

A discussion of the different purposes for measuring child care and early education quality, including the importance of distinguishing among different purposes when assessing quality and the need for care when assessments are to be used for multiple purposes

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On-site approaches to quality improvement in quality rating and improvement systems: Building on the research on coaching
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, November, 2012
(Research-to-Policy, Research-to-Practice Brief OPRE2012-40). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

An examination of research on coaching, as well as other on-site quality improvement strategies, in child care quality rating and improvement systems

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