The Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (ECERS) and its revised version (ECERS-
R) were designed as global measures of quality that assess structural and process aspects …

Child-staff ratios are a key quality indicator in early childhood education and care (ECEC)
programs. Better ratios are believed to improve child outcomes by increasing opportunities …

High levels of maternal employment in the United States and throughout the world have led
to substantive changes in the rearing of infants and young children (Waldfogel, 2002) …

Practice and policy in early childhood education rely heavily on professional expertise and
guidelines developed from research on early care and education (ECE) quality, but these …

Abstract The Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale–Revised (ECERS–R) is widely
used to associate child care quality with child development, but its validity for this purpose is …

This monograph addresses the hypotheses that preschool children benefit most strongly
when early care and education (ECE) is at or above a threshold of quality, has specific …

Abstract Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) include the assessment of
classroom quality as one component of how early childhood programs are monitored and …

Participation in non‐parental child care arrangements is now the norm for preschool‐age
children in the US However, child care services are becoming increasingly expensive for …

Staff education is considered key to quality of early childhood education and care (ECEC)
programs. However, findings about associations between staff education and children's …

The expectation of quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) is that higher quality
inputs will produce higher quality outcomes for children. There are many ways that …