Best Practices in Creating and Adapting Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) Rating Scales - Brief & Report

Publication Date: July 11, 2016

Current as of: December 18, 2018

Introduction

Three principles of scale development — Dimensionality, Item Selection, & Item Scoring are especially relevant for Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) rating scales. This brief describes how using these principles can help in the development and refinement of QRIS rating scales. Attention to these principles will enhance the ability of QRIS ratings to achieve the goal of predicting observed quality scores and child outcomes.

The additional technical report describes the analysis in detail, highlighting the data from six large studies of early care and education quality used, as well the quality indicators used and three sets of analyses.

Files

Types:

Report

OPRE Research Topics:

Child Care , Head Start & Early Head Start

Projects:

Child Care and Early Education Policy and Research Analysis (CCEEPRA) Project

Topics:

Child Care , Early Childhood , Early Head Start , Head Start

Tags:

Child Development , Child Support , Communities , Cultural Sensitivity , Education , Eligibility , Grants , Partnerships , Poverty , Program Funding , Reporting , Research , Whole Family Strategies , Evidence-based Approaches