Description:
The overall goal of this project is to identify thresholds of early childhood education quality in predicting social-emotional, cognitive, and language outcomes to inform national and state policies that promote optimal child development through early childhood education and child care settings. The project's primary objectives are to: (1) compare different analytic strategies for identifying thresholds of quality; (2) replicate the analytic strategy with multiple national and state data sets to determine if thresholds are similar or different across data sets and to examine convergent findings across data sets; and (3) examine subgroup differences to determine whether minimum levels of quality necessary to promote positive development differ based on family resources (e.g., family income, parent education); child characteristics (child sex, age); child minority status and cultural background (child language, race, ethnicity); or program context (geographic setting/program auspice).
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Administration for Children and Families/OPRE Projects
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