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200 00$aAssessing the validity of the Qualistar early learning quality rating and improvement system as a tool for improving child-care quality /$fGail L. Zellman ... [et al.] : prepared for Qualistar Early Learning
210   $aSanta Monica, CA $cRAND Education$d2008
215   $a1 online resource (129 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-8330-4495-8 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p.95-104).
327   $aCover; Preface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; CHAPTER ONE- Introduction; The Effects of Quality; Efforts to Improve Quality Through Quality Rating Systems; Assessing and Validating QRISs; Qualistar's QRIS; Research Questions; Organization of This Report; CHAPTER TWO- Methods; The Study Sample; Measures; Data-Collection Procedures: Providers, Parents, Staff, and Children; Analytic Approaches; CHAPTER THREE- Analyses of Q-QRIS Components; Classroom Environment; Ratios; Staff Education, Training, and Experience; Parent Involvement in Child-Care Settings
327   $aAccreditationConclusions; CHAPTER FOUR- Relationships Among Components and Component Changes over Time for Center Providers; Methods; Correlations Among the Q-QRIS Components; Improvement Over Time in Center Quality; Conclusions; CHAPTER FIVE- Relationships of Q-QRIS Components and Star Ratings to Process-Quality and Child Outcome Measures for Center Providers; Methods; Findings; Relationships of the Q-QRIS Components to the Process-Quality Measures; Relationship of the Star Ratings to the Measures of Process Quality; Relationships Between Q-QRIS Components and Child Outcomes
327   $aRelationships Between Star Ratings and Child OutcomesRelationships Between Process-Quality Measures and Child Outcomes; Conclusion; CHAPTER SIX- Family Child-Care Providers; Background; Research on Quality of Care in Family Child-Care Homes; The Family Child-Care Home Sample; Methods; Findings; Conclusions; CHAPTER SEVEN- Discussion; Key Research Questions; Contextualizing the Child Outcome Findings; Lessons Learned; Bibliography
330   $aAssesses the validity of Qualistar Early Learning's child-care quality rating and improvement system, which was designed to make child-care quality transparent and improve the quality of care in participating providers.
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