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Child care quality matters: How conclusions may vary with context

JM Love, L Harrison, A Sagi‐Schwartz… - Child …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Three studies examined associations between early child care and child outcomes among
families different from those in the National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development (NICHD) Early Child Care Research Network study. Results suggest that ...

Differential susceptibility to rearing experience: The case of childcare

M Pluess, J Belsky - … of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
... See Table 1 for bivariate correlations between different variables. Most notably, child
negativity was not significantly associated with childcare predictor variables (ie, quality,
quantity, or proportion of center care) nor with child outcomes. ...

Early child care and early child development: Major findings of the NICHD study of early child care

J Belsky - European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
... Love, J., Harrison, L., Sagi-Schwartz, A., van Ijzendoorn, M., Ross, C.Ungerer, J. 2003. Child
care quality matters: How conclusions may vary with context. Child Development , 74: 969–1226.
[CrossRef], [PubMed], [Web of Science ®], [CSA] View all references). ...

Children's cortisol levels and quality of child care provision

M Sims, A Guilfoyle… - Child: Care, Health and …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
... baby from the bathwater: how gender and temperament (may) influence how child care affects
child development. Child Development, 74, 1034–1038. ... Donzella, B. (1999) Cortisol levels of
young children in full-day childcare centres: relations with age and temperament. Psycho.

Are There Long‐Term Effects of Early Child Care?

J Belsky, DL Vandell, M Burchinal… - Child …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
... Additionally, large amounts of after-school care during the primary grades may account for
behavior ... whether findings pertaining to amount of time in any kind of care vary as a ... For example,
the standard deviation for our child-care quality measure was .23; therefore, the effect ...

Child care and the well-being of children

RH Bradley… - Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent …, 2007 - Am Med Assoc
... get during infancy and early childhood, and whether the care they get meets standards of quality.
Children who spend many hours in care beginning in infancy appear to be at increased ... Behavioral
problems are more likely if the child struggles when interacting with peers and if ...

[BOOK] Child care quality: does it matter and does it need to be improved?

D Vandell, B Wolfe… - 2000 - gse.uci.edu
... 1997. The Economics of Child Care. December. http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/CEA/html/
childcare.html#econ 63) US General Accounting Office. 1990. Early Childhood Education: What
Are the Costs of High Quality Programs? HRD-90-43BR. Washington DC: GAO. ...

[HTML] Daycare attendance, stress, and mental health

J Paris, RP Mattick, J McLaren… - Canadian Journal of …, 2006 - ww1.cpa-apc.org
... 24. Watamura SE, Sebanc AM, Gunnar MR. Rising cortisol at childcare: relations with nap,
rest, and temperament. Dev Psychobiol 2002;40:33–42.*. 25. ... Child care quality matters: how
conclusions may vary with context. Child Dev 2003;74:1021–33. 38. ...

Context matters: interpreting impact findings in child survival evaluations

CG Victora, JA Schellenberg, L Huicho… - Health Policy and …, 2005 - Oxford Univ Press
... Context matters: interpreting impact findings in child ... The better quality care is a mediating variable. ...
IMCI is a broad strategy for improving child survival and nutritional status, including three
components: improving health worker performance, strengthening health systems, and ...

Child care and early development

D Phillips, K McCartney… - Blackwell handbook of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
... In N. Cabrera, R. Hutchens, & HE Peters (Eds.), From welfare to childcare: What happens to young
children when mothers exchange welfare for work? Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Cost, Quality, &
Outcomes Team. (1995). Cost, quality, and child outcomes in child care centers. ...

Care in context: Men's unpaid work in 20 countries, 1965–2003

JL Hook - American sociological review, 2006 - asr.sagepub.com
... The gen- eral conclusion is that researchers “are just beginning to understand why men ... for dinner),
missing the bulk of house- hold labor including cooking, cleaning, and child care. ... Studies find
partial support for bargaining—relative income matters somewhat, except in some ...

Child care effects in context: Quality, stability, and multiplicity in nonmaternal child care arrangements during the first 15 months of life.

H Tran… - Developmental Psychology, 2006 - psycnet.apa.org
... Several other studies have found no association between the quality of the mother–child
attachment relationship and the number of caregiver changes (Benn, 1986) or the number of
child care ... This finding suggests that it may be important to examine child care in the ...

[PDF] The social and emotional foundations of school readiness

RA Thompson… - Social and emotional health in early …, 2007 - prek-now.org
... developmental researchers presented a collection of papers at a session entitled “Hard Skills
and Socioemotional Behavior at School Entry: What Matters Most for Subsequent Achievement?” ...
Child care quality can be, in other words, ... problems. Conclusion ...

The trade-off between child quantity and quality

EA Hanushek - Journal of Political Economy, 1992 - JSTOR
... Since the quality of time as related to child-rearing practices would be expected to evolve slowly
over ... The difference between quantity and quality of parental time is somewhat blurred. ... the work
of Hill and Stafford (1974, 1980), suggest that quantity of time may vary directly with ...

Effects of Child–Caregiver Ratio on the Interactions Between Caregivers and Children in ChildCare Centers: An Experimental Study

EJ De Schipper… - Child …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
... care have been mostly correlational, which limits the strength of the conclusions that can ... during
lunchtime and throughout the remainder of the morning in the child-care center ... We hypothesized
that the quality of caregiver–child interaction during structured play was significantly ...

Behavioral inhibition as a precursor of peer social competence in early school age: The interplay with attachment and nonparental care

G Bohlin, B Hagekull… - Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 2005 - questia.com
... Love, JM, Harrison, L., Sagi-Schwartz, A., van Ijzendoorn, MH, Ross, C., Ungerer, JA, et al. (2003).
Child care quality matters: How conclusions may vary with context. Child Development, 74,
1021-1038. Nachmias, M., Gunnar, M., Mangelsdorf, S., Parritz, RH, & Buss, K. (1996). ...

Getting Inside the" Black Box" of Head Start Quality: What Matters and What Doesn't?

J Currie… - 2003 - nber.org
... higher average quality than other child care available to low income parents), Head Start has
also ... 16 consistent with Resnick and Zill's (undated) findings regarding the lower quality of
programs ... with variation in per capita expenditures on Head Start and with child outcomes. ...

Teachers' education, classroom quality, and young children's academic skills: Results from seven studies of preschool programs

DM Early, KL Maxwell, M Burchinal… - Child …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
... In the child-care literature, most research indicates that higher levels of teachers' education are
linked to higher global quality in center-based care (Burchinal et al., 2002 ... degree or any other
specific level of education will produce or ensure a high-quality classroom or ...

[BOOK] Preschool education and its lasting effects: Research and policy implications

WS Barnett… - 2008 - greatlakescenter.org
... studies in the United States and Canada have found center-based child care to produce ... There
is some evidence that negative effects increase with number of years in care, but lessen when
children attend higher quality programs.19 Higher program quality (defined in ...

Child well-being and neighbourhood quality: evidence from the Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth

LJ Curtis, MD Dooley… - Social Science & Medicine, 2004 - Elsevier
... may, in many cases, incorporate the judgement of a medical care professional. ... and family
characteristics generally have stronger (statistically) associations with child outcomes than ... Unlike
many other studies, neighbourhood quality is statistically significant after controlling for ...

[PDF] Does child care quality matter

LJ Harrison - Family Matters, 2008 - aifs.gov.au
... of care to the eligibility of parents to receive subsidies to meet the cost of care, Australia has
achieved a very high level of QIAS compliance (National Childcare Accreditation Council ... with
state/territory regulatory requirements for staff qualifications and staff- to-child ratios that ...

Cortisol patterns at home and child care: Afternoon differences and evening recovery in children attending very high quality full-day center-based child care

SE Watamura, EM Kryzer… - Journal of Applied …, 2009 - Elsevier
... The effects of early experience in non-human animals depend on the caregiving context, such
that optimal caregiving may buffer the ... In several studies published to date assessing child care
quality and cortisol, higher quality child care was associated with less of a rise in ...

[PDF] What can the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children tell us about infants' and 4 to 5 year olds' experiences of early childhood education and care

L Harrison… - Family Matters, 2005 - aifs.gov.au
... ments specifying minimum standards of care quality (Press and Hayes 2000), and it is likely that
the quality of care ... Do care arrangements vary by state/territory ... The states and territories are
responsible for the regulation and some funding of child care (Press and Hayes 2000), so ...

Do effects of early child care extend to age 15 years? Results from the NICHD study of early child care and youth development

DL Vandell, J Belsky, M Burchinal… - Child …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
... There also is some evidence that the effects of child care may vary as a function of familial risk.
Quality of early child care has emerged as a protective factor of familial social risk (measured
by maternal education, family income, household size, and maternal depression) in ...

Non-cognitive child outcomes and universal high quality child care

N Datta Gupta… - Journal of Public Economics, 2010 - Elsevier
... If this signals lower quality of preschools in GAPS-municipalities (beyond what is controlled for
by ... data are suboptimal in our context, it is difficult to make hard conclusions though. ... Overall, there
is limited consensus in the literature about the effects of child care and maternal ...

At the heart of child care: Predictors of teacher sensitivity in center-based child care

EB Gerber, M Whitebook… - Early Childhood Research …, 2007 - Elsevier
... how the individual and contextual factors which influence sensitive caregiving in parent-child
relationships may also contribute to ... Participants were a subsample of teachers in child care centers
participating in a larger longitudinal study on center-based quality focused on the ...

Evaluation of an early childhood preschool program in rural Bangladesh

FE Aboud - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2006 - Elsevier
... Most evaluations have found that cognitive and language development benefited from high quality
care when measured in terms of opportunities for child-initiated play ... as too ideal and judgmental,
or inappropriately assuming a universal concept of quality (Cannella & ...

Nonparental child care: Context, concepts, correlates, and consequences

ME Lamb… - Handbook of child psychology, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
... To complicate matters, however, economic, demographic, ideological, and historical factors often
exert inconsistent ... the conceptualization of developmental processes have major implications
for child care practices and the seriousness of concerns about the quality of care. ...

Emanuel Miller lecture developmental risks (still) associated with early child care

J Belsky - Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
... relationships under certain conditions (ie, when mothers were insensitive in their mothering),
and indicated further that low quality of care and more than ... in the first year of life also play a role
in the development of insecure attachments (NICHD Early Child Care Re- search ...

School readiness and later achievement.

GJ Duncan, CJ Dowsett, A Claessens… - Developmental …, 2007 - psycnet.apa.org
... Bukowski, & Pattee, 1993; Parker & Asher, 1987), and these stressors may reduce children's ...
children to have achievement problems in third grade (NICHD Early Child Care Research Network ...
dence that high-quality programs for preschool children “at risk” for school failure ...

Capturing quality in early childhood through environmental rating scales

K Sylva, I Siraj-Blatchford, B Taggart… - Early Childhood …, 2006 - Elsevier
... of children, Adult: Child Ratio, Staff qualifications, Hours of care. ... education authority nursery
classes in primary schools, 25, 588, 1:13, Each classroom led by a qualified teacher (4-year
graduate) supported by a qualified staff member with 2-year childcare qualifications, Half ...

The Known and the Unknown

DL Vandell - … the human developmental sciences: essays in …, 2007 - books.google.com
... These dis- crepancies may be explained by the reliability of the child care scores. ... Next Steps
The recent findings pertaining to the effects of child care quality are consistent with the summary
conclusions of Lamb and Ahnert in the 2006 Handbook of Child Psychology ...

How economists think about family resources and child development

EM Foster - Child Development, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
... Further- more, participation will depend on parental assess- ments of their child's endowments
(ie, gifts, talents, and skills) and of the likelihood that a child would benefit from participation. ... The
effects of after-care seem to de- pend on the quality of that experience (Pierce et al ...

The wider context

MJ Neuman - Transitions in the early years, 2002 - books.google.com
... these services and the compulsory school system will be coherent (EC Childcare Network, 1996). ...
birth to three years, drop-in facilities, outreach, family support, health care, adult education ... and
provide the supports and required to ensure that each young child being served with ...

Mothers' search for infant child care: the dynamic relationship between availability and desirability in a continental European welfare state

M Vandenbroeck, S De Visscher… - Early Childhood …, 2008 - Elsevier
... Child care in Belgium is not a legal entitlement for children under three years of age (unlike
Sweden or ... Belgian childcare comprises both funded and non-funded care. ... In this funded
center-based care, parents pay a contribution according to their income, which varies between ...

Family and child factors related to the use of non-maternal infant care: An English study

K Sylva, A Stein, P Leach, J Barnes… - Early Childhood Research …, 2007 - Elsevier
... However, at the same time, lack of good quality, affordable child care has been shown to be
a major barrier to lone parents seeking work (Inter-Departmental Childcare Review, 2002)
and to working mothers taking on more hours (Kozak & Coram, 1998 ...

Consequences of child care for children's development

KA Clarke-Stewart - Child care in the 1990s: Trends and …, 1992 - books.google.com
... Beyond the minimal acceptable standards of quantity, it is the quality of the program that
matters—the organization of the physical space, the responsive- ness of the caregivers' behavior,
the content of the curriculum, and ... In DA Phillips (Ed.), Quality in child care: What does ...

Children's social and cognitive development and child-care quality: Testing for differential associations related to poverty, gender, or ethnicity

MR Burchinal, E Peisner-Feinberg… - Applied …, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
... high-quality child care can serve as a protective factor for children who may be at ... Individually,
these studies were lim- ited in their conclusions because some measured the type of care ... care;
included too few children with risk factors who at- tended high-quality child care; or did ...

Early childhood care and education: Effects on ethnic and racial gaps in school readiness

KA Magnuson… - The future of children, 2005 - JSTOR
... percent receive public school teacher salaries) and consider- ably higher than that of other child
care workers.28 ... was lower than that in Georgia and lower than national estimates of center care
quality.31 The lack of information on prekindergarten classroom quality makes ...

Assesing the effects of context in studies of child and youth development

GJ Duncan… - Educational Psychologist, 1999 - Taylor & Francis
... odd that social science research is far from definitive about whether "context matters." This is ... The
propensity of individuals to choose higher or lower quality child care or to move to ... is required
to model these propensi- ties as a precondition to drawing conclusions regarding the ...

[BOOK] Quality assessment and assurance in primary health care

MI Roemer… - 1988 - whqlibdoc.who.int
... With respect to maternal and child health, the percentage of pregnant women receiving prenatal
care of a ... Reasonable quality standards may vary greatly among countries, depending on their
resources, their wealth, and their managerial policies at a given time. ...

[BOOK] Explaining child malnutrition in developing countries: A cross-country analysis

LC Smith, LJ Haddad - 2000 - books.google.com
... and women's status relative to men's (for both food security and care), and safe ... Women's status
relative to men's and the quality of a country's health environ- - ment ... costs of alternative
interventions, how shoul policymakers prioritize investments to reduce child malnutrition most ...

The quality of ambulatory care delivered to children in the United States

R Mangione-Smith, AH DeCristofaro… - … England Journal of …, 2007 - Mass Medical Soc
... 49. Judith S. Shaw. (2008) Practice Improvement: Child Healthcare Quality and Bright Futures.
Pediatric Annals 37:3, 159-164. 50. ... 53. Perrin, James M., Homer, Charles J., . (2007) The
Quality of Children's Health Care Matters — Time to Pay Attention. ...

[PDF] Context matters: Schools and the" research to practice gap" in children's mental health

H Ringeisen, K Henderson… - School Psychology …, 2003 - nasponline.org
... influence of organiza- tional factors on the ability to provide mental health care in schools ... ser-
vice outcomes (improved psychosocial func- tioning in children and adolescents) and ser- vice
quality. ... The No Child Left Behind Act re- quires the establishment of a minimum level of ...

The family-child care mesosystem

K McCartney - Families count: Effects on child and adolescent …, 2006 - books.google.com
... Family Selection of Child Care Notsurprisingly, maternalemploymentstatusoftendrivesdecisi
onsabout childcare. ... implications for child-care policy It is tempting to discuss the policy implications
that ... need subsidies to ensure thattheir children have access to high-quality programs. ...

Every child matters? A critical review of child welfare reforms in the context of minority ethnic children and families

A Chand - Child Abuse Review, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
... minority ethnic groups' 'It was envisaged that the CAF would improve the quality of referrals
between agencies' ... These services may include those related to child protection, interpreting
provisions, local authority care and care proceedings, and these are considered in turn. ...

Who cares? Changing patterns of childcare in Central and Eastern Europe

D Szelewa… - Journal of European Social Policy, 2008 - esp.sagepub.com
... The commitment of the welfare state to the provision of high-quality institutional childcare should
be ... Moreover, it is argued that this measure of quality has a serious impact on the edu ... can be
observed by the parents, and in this way may determine the child- care attendance of ...

Effects of maternal education, women's roles, and child care on child mortality

H Ware - Population and Development Review, 1984 - JSTOR
... Factory workers who disappear for the morning to the clinic with a sick child may well face the ...
simply delayed for as long as possible, or do the siblings or grandmothers who care for the ... would
appear that the poorer the household the smaller the difference in the quality of care ...

Peer Contacts of 15‐Month‐olds in Childcare: Links With Child Temperament, Parent–Child Interaction and Quality of Childcare

MJG Deynoot‐Schaub… - Social …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
... Volling & Feagans, 1995), childcare quality was found to interact with child temperament in ... In
low quality childcare centers, children with high levels of social fear were found to display ... These
findings suggest that high quality care may decrease the risk of children with a difficult ...

Family Context and Individual Weil-Being

P Uhlenberg… - Handbook of the life course, 2003 - Springer
... affected by such parental health behaviors as smoking, nutrition habits, and routine care. ...
Throughout childhood and adolescence, poor nutrition and quality of life further compromise
development ... Parents' attitudes toward school and their expectations for the child also matter. ...

[BOOK] The father's role

ME Lamb - 1986 - pitweb2.pitzer.edu
... Subsequent research suggested that the quality of the relationship was actually the crucial variable
so ... male involvement: the notion that it is effeminate for men to be involved in childcare. ... 1.2 likewise
conveys the message that "real men" can be actively involved in child- care. ...

“What do you do in child care?” children's perceptions of high and low quality classrooms

NW Wiltz… - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2001 - Elsevier
... Research indicates that the quality of child care matters since experiences in child care impact
children's development and readiness for school (Children of the ... in natural settings, script theory,
and the use of structural and process variables to discuss the quality of child care. ...

Child care, women's employment, and child outcomes

J Waldfogel - Journal of Population Economics, 2002 - Springer
... The NICHD study has also provided new evidence that the quality of care matters, finding
signif- icant effects of higher quality care on mother-child relationships, on children's
cognitive and language development, and on their school readiness. ...

Facts, fantasies and the future of child care in the United States

S Scarr, D Phillips… - Psychological Science, 1990 - pss.sagepub.com
... In conclusion, we take a brief look at current policy debates and at the future of child ... in the quality
of child care, at home and in other settings, is what matters for children. ... or also assist the
non-poor, and about whether these benefits should purchase good quality child care (as in ...

Psychology and the cultural construction of children's needs

M Woodhead, A James… - … and reconstructing childhood: …, 1990 - books.google.com
... The emergent hybrid calls for a PACED approach to child care work—Practice Appropriate to
the Context of Early Development (Woodhead, 1996). ... of what actually is the child's best
interests'(Schaffer, 1990: 6).'Interests', like 'needs' are not a quality of the child; they are a ...

Evaluating an improved quality preschool program in rural Bangladesh

AC Moore, S Akhter… - International Journal of Educational …, 2008 - Elsevier
... yet been possible to establish a causal relationship between quality and child outcomes (NICHD ...
studies is sufficiently convincing to advocate for the provision of high-quality care (Love et al ...
Although the use of international measures of quality in resource-poor settings has been ...

Bridging the work-family policy and productivity gap: A literature review

EE Kossek… - Community, Work & Family, 1999 - Taylor & Francis
... post-test research design, and their findings were probably influenced by the quality of the ...
commitment (a wide- spread finding) once flextime is implemented, may be because ... turnover,
absenteeism, job involvement, flextime, flexible hours, company and child care, and work ...

Maternal employment and child cognitive outcomes in the first three years of life: The NICHD study of early child care

J Brooks–Gunn, WJ Han… - Child Development, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
... observed children in the sample were included, and a dummy variable was used to indicate that
data for their quality of child care were missing. ... is a concern in estimating the effects of early
maternal employment, because women who choose to work earlier may be positively ...

Beyond Parenting Practices: Family Context and the Treatment of Pediatric Obesity*

KM Kitzmann, WT Dalton III… - Family relations, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
... On average, youth who are overweight have a lower health-related quality of life ... Initiating
discussion about family matters would provide both the interventionist and the family a ... In some
cases, resources such as transportation, translators, and child care may need to be directly ...

6 Quality Matters

A Langston… - Birth to three matters: supporting the …, 2004 - books.google.com
... is reflective of the needs, characteristics and interests of the individual child, rather than of ...
stakeholders in a collaborative evaluation of early years education and care, with judgements ...
new technologies, new policies and new kinds of childcare and childcare professionals. ...

The effect of child care characteristics on child development

DM Blau - Journal of Human Resources, 1999 - JSTOR
... of care, whether paid care is used, the amount paid, and the number of child care arrange- ments
per child are included to measure aspects of quality that are ... If the better-paid providers also are
more likely to be trained or provide care in small groups, then omitting the ...

Does neighborhood matter? Assessing recent evidence

IG Ellen… - Housing Policy Debate, 1997 - Taylor & Francis
... can aspire to become, and adults outside the immediate family can help parents care for, teach ...
patterns of social interactions at a young age may serve to shape a child's patterns of ... For example,
it might be crime rates, school quality, social capital, or some interaction of several ...

[BOOK] Improving the quality of long-term care

GS Wunderlich… - 2001 - books.google.com
... Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Director, Division of General Pediatrics, and
Director, MGH Center for Child and Adolescent ... of adequate nutrition, identification of substandard
facilities or programs, and public access to information on quality of care; and ...

[PDF] Child Care Choices and Childrens Cognitive Achievement: The Case of Single Mothers

R Bernal… - 2006 - emw.zew.de
... childcare assistance and child support enforcement. ... the time input (from increased work
or day care use) affects time reading to the child and so on. ... effects like μj and δij.11 Neither
approach, nor child fixed effects, deals with endogeneity arising ...

Development of child-centered disease-specific questionnaires for living with asthma

MJ Christie, D French… - Psychosomatic …, 1993 - Am Psychosomatic Soc
... factor is the one most closely associated with health- related QofL, how the child feels most ... a
multiple r value of .48, thus emphasizing subjective aspects of health-related quality of living ... but
also for establishing rapport and exploring children's perceptions of barriers to self care. ...

[BOOK] America's child care problem: The way out

SW Helburn… - 2003 - books.google.com
... macmitlan Page 6. AMERICA'S CHILDCARE PROBLEM Copyright © Barbara Bergmann
and Suzanne Helburn, 2002. All rights reserved. ... it. Chapter 7 concerns the peculiarities
of the child care industry and their effect on quality. The ...

Matters of spirituality at the end of life in the pediatric intensive care unit

MR Robinson, MM Thiel, MM Backus… - Pediatrics, 2006 - pediatricsdigest.mobi
... them emotionally. Parents reported 4 explicitly religious/spiritual themes: prayer,
faith, access to and care from clergy, and belief in the transcendent quality of the
parent-child relationship that endures beyond death. In addition ...

Early childhood interventions and outcomes

J Waldfogel - 1999 - eprints.lse.ac.uk
... Table 2: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care ... For children whose mothers are
sensitive caregivers, childcare has no ... For children whose mothers are not sensitive, care matters:
high quality care leads to more secure attachment, while poor quality care, more than ...

Evaluating parent involvement and family support in early intervention and preschool programs

DB Bailey Jr - Journal of Early intervention, 2001 - jei.sagepub.com
... that ac- count for variation in quality (eg, education of teachers, private versus public childcare),
and determining the relationship between quality of care and outcomes ... supported in their efforts
to serve as agents of intervention in promoting the child's acquisition of ...

Residential child care in England and Wales

D Berridge… - Child welfare services: developments in …, 1996 - books.google.com
... have given the residential sector insufficient attention, while attracting and retaining high quality
staff has ... This low status has had a tangible and reciprocal impact on matters such as pay ... practice
did not take place, or may even be characteristic of residential child care in general. ...

The social ecology of child health and well-being

F Earls… - Annual review of public health, 2001 - annualreviews.org
... social capital is also presented because of its growing popularity in matters of child ... The quality
of housing, schools, parks and recreational areas, businesses, and transportation facilities all ...
help with housework and those who did not receive help with child care (social capital ...

Child care assistance policies can affect the use of center-based care for children in low-income families

DA Crosby, L Gennetian… - Applied Developmental …, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
... Under the best circumstances, affordable, quality child care can pro- mote low-income parents'
self-sufficiency efforts while providing environments that support children's cognitive, behavioral ...
Alter- natively, care that is unstable, unreliable, or of low quality presents a ...

Joint involvement episodes as context for development

HR Schaffer - An introduction to Vygotsky, 1996 - books.google.com
... The issues they address concerned such matters as the age at which particular functions ... Thus
children brought up without families and experiencing only institutional care during the ... play session
depended both on the mother's efforts and on the child's spontaneous exploratory ...

The relation of kindergarten classroom environment to teacher, family, and school characteristics and child outcomes

RC Pianta, KM La Paro, C Payne, MJ Cox… - The Elementary School …, 2002 - JSTOR
... & Copple, 1997; National Institute on Child Health and Human Development [NICHD] Early
Childcare Research Net ... Care and include mother's education and family income-to-needs ratio. ...
in three areas: (a) description of time-sampled activities and teacher-child interactions; (b ...

[CITATION] Knowledge to action?: evidence based health care in context

S Dopson… - 2005 - Oxford University Press, USA

The coherence of individual development: Early care, attachment, and subsequent developmental issues.

LA Sroufe - American Psychologist, 1979 - psycnet.apa.org
... The quality of the child's functioning in facing challenges and in establishing peer relations can
be assessed. Ques- tions concerning the impact of substitute care (of varying amounts and quality),
alternative life- styles, and changing social support systems can all be ...

[PDF] Child care quality in Australia

E Rush - The Australia Institute, 2006 - tai.org.au
... on standards of care, the Federal Government established the National Childcare Accreditation
Council ... submissions to the Economic Planning Advisory Commission's Task Force on Child Care
in 1995-96 ... at a number of points to consistently ensure that quality care is provided. ...

[CITATION] Care matters: concepts, practice and research in health and social care

A Brechin - 1998 - Sage Publications Ltd

Should Child Custody Rules Be Fair

S Altman - U. Louisville J. Fam. L., 1996 - HeinOnline
... that one parent had participated less in the labor market in order to care for her ... it would not be
bothersome that parents who assume differing roles in childcare should find their differing roles
during marriage permitted them at separation to offer differing advantages to the child. ...

Effects of the home learning environment and preschool center experience upon literacy and numeracy development in early primary school

EC Melhuish, MB Phan, K Sylva… - Journal of Social …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
... The provision of good quality preschool education from 3 years of age is likely ... the Children Act
(2004) and the UK government's Ten Year Childcare Strategy (HM ... UK government for Children's
Centres, which provide integrated services including child care, preschool education ...

Shadow Times

L McKie, S Gregory… - Sociology, 2002 - soc.sagepub.com
... It may be that telling the child to stop and cleaning up the mess is all that can be achieved without
an ... that both the significance and the interrelations of these different temporalities of care are
ignored in much policy concerning care in general and childcare in particular. ...

[BOOK] Telemedicine: A guide to assessing telecommunications in health care

MJ Field - 1996 - books.google.com
... members of the appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to ... is
intended to affect individual or population health by changing the quality, accessibility, or ... the
communications and information systems, the methods for providing medical care, and the ...

[CITATION] What makes for good care

A Brechin - Care matters: Concepts, practice and research in …, 1998 - Sage, London

Quality in early childhood settings

K Sylva - Early childhood matters: evidence from the effective …, 2009 - books.google.com
... Childcare interaction scale (CIS) The CIS is an observational rating scale of adult–child interaction ...
The pedagogy is described in terms of the balance between child-initiated activity and adult ...
Conclusion To conclude, EPPE found that the standard of education and care in pre ...

Flextime

KE Christensen, GL Staines - Journal of Family Issues, 1990 - jfi.sagepub.com
... Few studies have systematically investigated the effects of flextime on the quality of family life. ...
there are temporary leaves of absence in conjunction with the birth or adoption of a child. ... Paid
work and the care of preschool children, for example, typically display a low level of ...

Going down to the local: incorporating social organisation and political culture into assessments of decentralised health care

S Atkinson, RLR Medeiros, PHL Oliveira… - Social science & …, 2000 - Elsevier
... in areas with strong histories of social capital and that the rest of the country should be centralized
— a conclusion that is ... scale in order to identify aspects which influence the implementation of
the reforms and thereby potentially impact upon the quality of the care provided. ...

Fostering matters: A foster carer's perspective

E Harlow, F Blackburn - … Work and Social Sciences Review-An …, 2007 - ingentaconnect.com
... Furthermore, comments on the quality of practice in relation to assessment and training may be
of value to ... FOSTERING MATTERS: A FOSTER CARER'S PERSPECTIVE ... Child Care in Practice,
12, 4, 315-330 Clare, B. (2007) Promoting deep learning: A teaching, learning and ...

Differences in education and earnings across racial and ethnic groups: Tastes, discrimination, and investments in child quality

BR Chiswick - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1988 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
... in the impli- cations of schooling for occupational attainment, earnings, fertility, and other matters
is influenced ... in Part V to test the application of the "quantity-quality" tradeoff model ... for parental
time and resources, and more parental time inputs into child care may be responsible ...

Mechanisms in How Parenting Affects Children's Aggressive Behavior

KA Dodge - Parenting and the child's world: Influences on …, 2002 - books.google.com
... Chamberlain, P., & Reid, JB (1991). Using a specialized foster care community treatment model
for children and adolescents leaving the state mental health hospital. Journal of Community
Psychology, 19, 266–276. ... (1995). Mother-child interaction quality as a partial ...

Social‐emotional consequences of day care for preschool children

M Rutter - American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 1981 - Wiley Online Library
... How- ever, Moore's findings50 emphasize that the consequences may well depend on the quality,
consistency, and ... day care take several different forms, day care also differs from home care on
a ... addition, of course, it might also vary in the characteristics of adult-child interaction ...

[PDF] Getting Inside the “Black Box” of Head Start Quality: What Matters and What Doesn't

J Currie… - 2004 - princeton.edu
... Page 5. 3 point out, the existing literature on child care quality is of limited help, given that it has
not conclusively ... This finding is consistent with Resnick and Zill's (undated) findings regarding
the slightly lower quality of ... 15 expenditures on Head Start and with child outcomes. ...

[BOOK] Envisioning the national health care quality report

MP Hurtado - 2001 - books.google.com
... members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to ... and
suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the conclusions or recommendations ... xii
ENVISIONING THE NATIONAL HEALTH CARE QUALITY REPORT bor, and Pensions; Robert ...

Measuring school readiness: Conceptual and practical considerations

KL Snow - Early Education and Development, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
... Carlton and Winsler (1999) reached a similar conclusion, noting that the predictive correlations
observed in ... NGA, 2005), which calls for elementary schools to provide high quality learning
environments ... can be supported prior to school entry by optimizing the child's exposure to ...

Quality Counts: Assessing the Quality of Daycare Services Based on the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development

C Japel, RE Tremblay… - 2009 - dspace.cigilibrary.org
... 7 Quality Counts! ... The reduced contribution program does not apply to nonregulated childcare
services. Stopover centres These establishments provide educational child care in a facility where
7 or more children are received on a casual basis for periods not exceeding 24 ...

Bows and ribbons, tape and twine: Wrapping the wraparound process for children with multi-system needs

A Rosenblatt - Journal of Child and Family Studies, 1996 - Springer
... parental voice" or "community ownership" over the process, and the ultimate quality of the ...
differentiated over time to understand their im- pacts on outcomes and costs of care. ... completed,
they have already yielded extremely valuable information to the child services community. ...

Attachment theory: Retrospect and prospect

I Bretherton - Monographs of the Society for Research in Child …, 1985 - JSTOR
... to the quality of attachment relationships, stability and change in the quality of attachment ... came
from findings demonstrating pervasive ill effects of institutional and hospital care on infants ... of
teacher-pupil, to mention just two examples (point 2). The parent-child relationship is ...

[HTML] Still too far to walk: Literature review of the determinants of delivery service use

S Gabrysch… - BMC Pregnancy and …, 2009 - w02.biomedcentral.com
... In China, the one-child-policy deters women with higher order pregnancies from using services
for ... majority find that richer households are more likely to have skilled delivery care (up to ... example
where wealth gradients are shallow, where services are free or where quality is the ...

Testing a multi-dimensional model of organizational performance: Prospects and problems

SC Selden… - Journal of Public Administration Research and …, 2004 - PMRA
... in Proceedings 1999, 2). Moreover, as the amount of public support for early care and education
increases, external ... Perception teacher quality (parent) (TQ) ... objective measures of a child's school
readiness, we would need to directly assess and observe each individual child. ...

Child care and our youngest children

D Phillips… - The future of children, 2001 - JSTOR
... Children's Experiences in Child Care: What Matters? ... Source: Ehrle, J., Adams, G., and Tout, T.
Who's caring for our youngest children: Child care patterns of infants and ... Quality of Care Children
not only move across multiple types of care over time, but the care they experience ...

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