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Infant-Toddler Child Observation Record |
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Teacher-Child Rating Scale 2.1 |
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Ages & Stages Questionnaire: Social-Emotional |
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Bracken School Readiness Assessment |
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Bilingual Teacher Behavior Rating Scale |
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An Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement (2nd ed.) |
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Key lessons from the military for improving our nation's child care system A discussion of the child care system reforms undertaken by the military that systematically overhauled its child care system; it is meant to be used as a checklist for assessing the quality of states’ child care systems |
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Parental views of children's longitudinal school success in relation to early child care experiences An examination of the quality of child care experiences on children's development and success in elementary school |
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Babies and bosses: Reconciling work and family life: Vol. 1. Australia, Denmark and the Netherlands An examination of ways in which tax and benefit policies, child care policy, and employment and workplace practices in Australia, Denmark, and the Netherlands affect parents trying to balance work and family life |
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Balancing Work and Family During Children's First Three Years A secondary analysis of data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care, consisting of two phases. Phase one explores the relationship between mothers' number of work hours and responsiveness to their children, and how this relationship is moderated by child care quality. Phase two examines how employed mothers balance work and family roles, and how the two are moderated by child care quality. |
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Maine Child Care Research Project This project consists of two components, one focused on program quality comparing programs enrolled in Maine's Quality Rating System (QRS) to those not enrolled. The other component is focused on use of child level assessment information to improve program quality. The purpose of the first component is to increase knowledge about improvements to program quality over time considering influences due to enrollment in the Maine Quality Rating System (QRS). Programs enrolled in the QRS receive additional supports than those programs not enrolled in the QRS. This study component also includes a focus on a set of programs enrolled in the QRS and contracted by the state DHHS to provide child care services to low-income working parents. Baseline data was collected in 2009 and follow-up data is being collected in 2011. The aim of the second study component is to explore the kinds of approaches to assessments that are used with infants and toddlers in higher quality programs. Authentic child level assessment is a standard in the QRS and this case study research will increase knowledge about how this standard is being met and or what barriers exist to meeting this standard. The research questions are: (1) What are the differences in program quality between child care programs enrolled in the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Quality Rating System (QRS) and child care programs not enrolled in the Maine DHHS Quality Rating System?; (2) What is the impact of federal Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) quality funding and subsequent supports on improving the quality of care available to and utilized by low-income working parents through contracted child care sites?; and (3) How are individual programs that serve infants and toddlers meeting the authentic assessment standard of the Quality for ME system? |
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The Impact of Kindergarten Entrance Policies on the Child Care Needs of Families An assessment of the impact of a change in kindergarten entrance age policy on the child care needs of families, using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS-K) data set to estimate: (1) the number of children who might be affected; (2) the demographic characteristics of the affected families; and (3) the potential child care costs that might result from such a change. |
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The Size of the US Child Care Workforce: Applying and Validating Demand-Based Estimation Methods for the States A test of a new econometric model for estimating characteristics of the child care workforce in 6-10 selected states, building on work by the University of Washington's Human Services Policy Center in collaboration with the Center for the Child Care Workforce. The project aims to validate the efficacy of the new model so that it can be used to produce workforce estimates for each of the 50 States, and, potentially, for sub-State regions. More uniformity and validity of State data also allows for aggregation across States to provide a better national picture of the U.S. child care workforce. |
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Essential but Often Ignored: Child Care Providers and the Subsidy System An examination of the characteristics of subsidized and unsubsidized providers, exploring how subsidy policies affect their experiences. The study also describes the participation of faith-based organizations in the child care subsidy system and the occurrence of activities supporting children's early learning and literacy in diverse settings. |
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California's Even Start Family Literacy Performance Information Reporting System |
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Wisconsin Child Care Data Sharing Project A project to develop a statewide research infrastructure to improve Wisconsin's ability to address child care policy questions at the state and local level. The infrastructure is designed to be housed within the Department of Workforce Development Data Warehouse, to draw upon multiple data sources, and to coordinate data across several programs and agencies, including resource and referral, the State's professional development system, and child care licensing. An initial product of this project is the Statewide Child Care Provider File--a resource for use by parents, the State's professional development system, and the Bureau of Regulation and Licensing. |
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Linking Economic Development and Child Care A project for the development and dissemination of regional economic models to examine how the child care industry affects economic development in States and local communities, and a set of analytic tools to assist States and localities in measuring the impact of child care in their region. The project also examines how the economic development framework is used to craft new strategic partnerships and innovative approaches to child care finance and administration. |
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Barriers to subsidies: Reasons why low income families do not use child care subsidies An investigation into the factors responsible for non-use of child care subsidies among subsidy-eligible families, based on a survey of 196 subsidy-eligible low income African American parents in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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Child care health consultants: Applicable standards from: Caring for our children: National health and safety performance standards: Guidelines for out-of-home child care A compilation of health and safety standards related to the utilization of child care health consultants in child care settings |
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Caring for our children: National Health and Safety Performance Standards: Guidelines for out-of-home child care A comprehensive compilation of health and safety standards related to all aspects of nonparental child care, including staffing, health promotion and protection, nutrition, facilities, and special needs |
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Rhode Island Child Care Policy Research Partnership A collaboration between the Wellesley Child Care Research Partnership and a Rhode Island child-focused policy organization to evaluate access to, and quality of, child care in the Starting Right era. The project uses data from a variety of programs, and investigates whether the State's investments in families and children have advanced success in early literacy, school readiness, strong families, and positive youth development. |
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Step up to Learning A presentation of a professional development training model for child care providers, especially those who work with low-income children, covering basic concepts about child development and basic principles about stimulating young children's development. The training model uses a randomly-assigned experimental group of providers and assesses improvements in child outcomes as evidence of training effectiveness. |
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Follow-up Study of Issues Affecting the Duration of Child Care Subsidy Use A follow-up study on the unexpected and unexplained findings from the Study of Child Care Subsidy Duration conducted by members of the Child Care Policy Research Consortium under the leadership of Oregon State University, which found that low-income families in five states used child care subsidies for a surprisingly short period of time--between three and seven months on average. The follow-up study surveys families who have exited a State child care subsidy program, and examines administrative data, to explore the possible reasons for such short average participation rates. |
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National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies A controlled random assignment longitudinal study of the effectiveness of welfare-to-work programs collecting data on child care and child well-being. |
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Profiling preschool literacy: Evidence of indigenous children's capabilities An Australian study describing the piloting of a preschool profile of early English literacy print awareness and understanding with 385 indigenous children in four states |
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