Roundtable on Measuring Quality in Early Childhood and School-Age Settings: At the Junction of Research, Policy and Practice

This report presents key questions about QRIS including: (1) What does the research say about the strength of existing measures of quality? (2) Is there good agreement across different States in terms of what measures of quality should be included, (3) Are States willing and able to update their quality initiatives when and if new information about the measurement of quality emerges from research (4) Are States encountering challenges in the application of quality measurement (5) What protections are needed to preserve the integrity of the rating process from bias and (6) What approaches are States using to evaluate whether and to what extent the measurement of quality results in improved quality?