This toolkit is designed to be a resource for researchers and technical staff of any discipline, working for governments and institutions interested in measuring and monitoring the quality of child care centers serving infants ages 0 to 3 years (36 months).
A comprehensive resource on measuring quality in both center- and home-based settings, this book brings together more than 50 early childhood experts to establish what's working in quality measurement and how it can be strengthened to ...
This book will be a vital resource for health officials at the local, state, and national levels, as well as private and public health care organizations and researchers.
As a first step in achieving high-quality ELCC, this literature review aims to inform policy and practice by providing a definition of quality, and how it is measured in the ELCC context.
`Not only does this book offer a great deal of insight into evaluating early childhood services, it also provides a focal point for those interested in establishing goals, objectives and evaluation criteria for their own early childhood ...
Howes, C., Hamilton, C. E., and Matheson, C. C. (1994). Children's relationships with peers: Differential associations with aspects of the teacher-child relationship. Child Development, 65(1), 253–263.
Measuring What Matters National Research Council, Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Care Services, Board on Children, Youth, and Families, Committee on Pediatric Health and Health Care Quality Measures.
One of the most important findings in the literature on child-care quality is that type of care and quality do not have a simple, one-to-one relationship with each other, regardless of whether quality is measured objectively, ...
The children of the cost, quality, and outcomes study go to school
A key question addressed by MELQO was the balance between a global tool suitable for use everywhere, and local priorities and goals for childrenâs development. [Introduction, ed]
Child. Care. Policy. and. Practice. Child care refers to regular nonparental care provided to children from birth to ... of contemporary child care practice followed by a brief history of child care policy in the United States leading ...