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Child Outcome Measures in the Study of Child Care Quality
By Natasha Cabrera, Tamara Halle, Laurie Martin, Martha Zaslow
Evaluation Review, 30, 5;
October
2006, p.577-610
Summary: This paper assesses whether there are methodological problems with child outcomes measures that may contribute to the small associations between child care quality and child outcomes found in the literature. Outcome measures were examined for 65 studies of child care quality published between 1979 and 2005. Serious methodological problems were not pervasive for child outcome measures. However, methodological concerns were most prevalent among measures of socioemotional development. Psychometric information on outcome measures was often missing from published reports, and health outcomes and approaches to learning were infrequently studied. It is suggested that future research should address alignment issues between aspects of quality and the specific child outcomes chosen for study. Contains 185 references.
Index Terms: Outcomes Of Child Care, Quality Of Child Care, Research Methodology, Studies, Evaluation Methods, Research Reports, Child Care Bureau (CCB), National Institute Of Child Health And Human Development (NICHD)
Publisher: Sage Publications
Publication Type: Journal Articles
Pages: 33 pages
Language: English
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