2006

The Snapshot is a time sampling observation instrument designed to describe children’s exposure to instruction and engagement in academic activities as well as to describe activities and adult responsive involvement. The Snapshot’s unique contributions to previous observational instruments are in the teacher engagement of the children and children’s engagement with academic activities sections.

TheSnapshot-MultiStateCodeSheet.doc

This 2006 Microsoft PowerPoint presents background information on the issue of measuring early childhood professional development. A "common core" of items for State data collection is being developed. A distinction is made between formal education and training. How this distinction can be adopted in data collection and reporting is discussed. Some of the components of professional development include: (1) format, (2) auspice, (3) mode of delivery, (4) content, (5) recency or time frame, and (6) extent of training.

This powerpoint explores several key issues in measuring quality including: which measures best capture the system wide vision of quality; are the measures driving the vision; what infrastructure is needed to support measurement of quality on a large scale; and how can these measures be used to distinguish levels of quality?

A paper that describes the ECE market, calls for a range of public investments and describes QRIS as an important system reform tool.

An observational study examining the effects of Pennsylvania's Keystone Stars program.

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

A research article that examines the times during the day and the frequency with which classroom ratios can be sample to achieve a representative classroom ratio within one state

A research article that investigates multiple ways in which parent involvement is conceived and measured in QRIS and how parent involvement relates to other aspects of child care quality.

This policy paper indicates that there has been an effort to develop more unified and comprehensive early education systems which can take many forms and can include QRIS.