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Assessing the validity of the Qualistar early learning quality rating and improvement system as a tool for improving child-care quality / / Gail L. Zellman ... [et al.] : prepared for Qualistar Early Learning
| Assessing the validity of the Qualistar early learning quality rating and improvement system as a tool for improving child-care quality / / Gail L. Zellman ... [et al.] : prepared for Qualistar Early Learning |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Santa Monica, CA, : RAND Education, 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (129 p.) |
| Disciplina | 362.71/20684 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | ZellmanGail |
| Soggetto topico |
Child care - United States - Evaluation
Child care services - United States - Evaluation Early childhood education - United States - Evaluation |
| ISBN |
1-282-03312-3
0-8330-4523-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; 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
AccreditationConclusions; 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 Relationships 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910219974303321 |
| Santa Monica, CA, : RAND Education, 2008 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Welfare reform in California : state and county implementation of CalWORKs in the first year / / Gail L. Zellman ... [et al.]
| Welfare reform in California : state and county implementation of CalWORKs in the first year / / Gail L. Zellman ... [et al.] |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Santa Monica, CA, : Rand, 1999 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (27 p.) |
| Altri autori (Persone) | ZellmanGail |
| Soggetto topico |
Welfare recipients - Employment - California
Public welfare - California |
| ISBN |
0-8330-4337-4
0-585-23508-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""PREFACE""; ""FIGURES""; ""TABLES""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""ABBREVIATIONS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""Background""; ""Objective""; ""ORGANIZATIONS HAVE CHANGED IN RESPONSE TO THE EXPANDED MISSION OF CalWORKs, DESPITE LIMITED TIME FOR PLANNING""; ""Implementing CalWORKs Entails a Profound Expansion of the Organizational Mission""; ""Late Legislation Limited the Time Available for County-Level Planning""; ""As a Result, Counties Have Been Forced to Implement with Only Limited Planning""; ""Counties Are Using Different Strategies to Deal with Key Implementation Requirements""
""Running Eligibility and Welfare-to-Work Activities""""Coordinating Operations with Other Agencies and Service Providers""; ""Apportioning New Agency Responsibility to Staff""; ""Increasing the Use of Outsourcing""; ""IMPLEMENTATION IS UNDER WAY, BUT RECIPIENT COMPLIANCE IS LOW""; ""Implementation Is Under Way but Is Far from Complete""; ""High Job-Placement Rates Mask a Noncompliance Problem""; ""Although Counties Are Still Developing Sanction Programs, Many Are Concerned They Will Be Ineffective When in Place""; ""COUNTIES CURRENTLY HAVE SUFFICIENT FUNDS, BUT THIS MAY CHANGE"" ""The Counties Currently Have Sufficient Funds""""The Shift to a Single TANF Block Grant""; ""Other Funding Streams""; ""Declining Caseloads""; ""Carryover Funds""; ""How Much Do These Factors Affect Per-Case Funding?""; ""CountiesÌ Fiscal Status Could Change Dramatically""; ""Internal Factors""; ""External Factors""; ""As a Result, the Responses of County Welfare Agencies Vary""; ""ACHIEVING EARNINGS NEEDED TO ACHIEVE SELF- SUFFICIENCY BEFORE TIME LIMITS EXPIRE IS A CHALLENGE""; ""Under CalWORKs, Work Pays""; ""Moving Recipients to Self-Sufficiency Is Challenging"" ""Counties Need to Work to Meet the Challenge""""IMPLICATIONS FOR FOLLOW-ON ACTIVITIES""; ""Theme 1: Organizational Change""; ""Theme 2: Implementation and Noncompliance""; ""Theme 3: Sufficiency of Funding""; ""Theme 4: Transition to Self-Sufficiency"" |
| Altri titoli varianti |
State and county implementation of CalWORKs in the first year
Rand statewide CalWORKS evaluation |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827274803321 |
| Santa Monica, CA, : Rand, 1999 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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