Child Trends

This review of the literature is one of several components of the Measurement Development: Quality of Caregiver-Child Interaction for Infants and Toddlers (Q-CCIIT) project. The main purpose of the Q-CCIIT project is to develop a new measure to assess the quality of caregiver-child interactions within varied non-parental care settings for infants and toddlers. This review describes previous work on both parent-child interactions and quality measures used in early care settings serving infants and toddlers.

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Provides a summary of the Year 1 findings of the Parent Aware evaluation.

A discussion of what still needs to be understood about how best to measure quality in early learning settings.

This report presents key questions about QRIS including: (1) What does the research say about the strength of existing measures of quality?

This 2007 document presents an overview of the Quality Measures Compendium, which is a framework used to review measures of the quality of early care and education settings. It is intended to provide uniform information about quality measures. Thirty-five quality measures are listed.

Report.pdf