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Evaluation of Quality Rating and Improvement Systems for Early Childhood Programs and School-Age Care: Measuring Children’s Development, Research-to-Policy, Research-to-Practice Brief
June 15, 2011Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) for early childhood programs and school-age care are being implemented in…
Understanding Parents’ Child Care Decision-Making: A Foundation for Child Care Policy Making
February 15, 2011Policies such as those related to child care subsidies and quality rating and improvement systems are designed to…
Defining and Measuring Quality in Home-Based Care Settings
December 15, 2010Fifty-seven percent of children under age six who are in non-parental care are cared for in a home, whether that of a…
Differentiating Among Measures of Quality: Key Characteristics and Their Coverage in Existing Measures
December 15, 2010This Brief discusses key characteristics that differentiate measures of quality, and the extent to which measures that…
Measuring the Quality of Early Care and Education Programs at the Intersection of Research, Policy, and Practice
December 15, 2010Quality measurement in early care and education programs now plays a central role in early childhood policy and…
Observational Measures of Quality in Center-based Early Care and Education Programs
December 15, 2010Classroom observation measures that were originally developed and refined for early childhood research purposes are…
Conceptual Frameworks for Child Care Decision-Making, White Paper
October 15, 2010There is widespread and growing interest in how parents make decisions about their children’s care…