Research and Evaluation

National Reports

• Child Trends
  • Issues for the Next Decade of Child Care Quality Rating Systems
  • Quality Rating and Improvement Systems for Early Childhood Education
• Child-Care Quality Rating and Improvement Systems: What Can We Learn from Early Adopters? – RAND Corporation
  
• United States Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Research, Policy, and Evaluation

State Reports

• Qualistar (Colorado)
  • RAND report 
  • Monthly Data Reports 
• Paths to Quality (Indiana)
  • Paths to Quality – Child Care Quality Rating System for Indiana: What is its Scientific Basis? 
  • Paths to Quality – Child Care Quality Rating System for Indiana: Technical Report no. 2, Evaluation Methods and Measures 
• Step Up to Quality (Ohio)
  • 2008 Annual Report
    
  • April 2009 Annual Report Update
    
  • Alignment Matrix
• Reaching for the Stars (Oklahoma)
  • “Reaching for the Stars” Center Validation Study Executive Summary 
  • “Reaching for the Stars” Family Child Care Home Validation Study: Final Report
• Keystone STARS (Pennsylvania)
  • 2008 Keystone STARS Provider Survey Results
• STARS – Step Ahead Recognition System (STARS) (Vermont)

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