Quality in Family Child Care Settings: The Relationship Between Provider Educational Experiences and Global Quality Scores in a Statewide Quality Rating and Improvement System

Structural characteristics and process quality in early childhood education and care

“…A higher pre-service training level has been shown to be associated with higher levels of process quality in European countries, such as Germany, Denmark, Portugal, and the United States (Barros and Leal, 2011 [90] ; Cryer et al, 1999 [73] ; Guo et al, 2010 [91] ; Pianta et al, 2005 [4] ), which in Denmark, Portugal and the United States meant having a Bachelor's degree. However, the evidence base is not consistent.…”

Voices From The Other Side: Perceptions Of Caregivers On Operating Unregulated Home-Based ChildCare

“…Previous studies that explored UHBC sector focused on global quality predictors (Doherty et al, 2006), provider qualifications (Hallam et al, 2013), and reasons for parental choice of UHBC (Huang, 2007;McKinley, 2010). However, researchers have not specifically studied the UHBC sector through an economic lens, particularly political economy of care, nor have sought to collect the perceptions of UHBC providers, which this study attempted to do.…”

“…Similarly, Hallam, Bargreen and Ridgley (2013), who analyzed secondary data from evaluations by Tennessee's Child Care Evaluation and Report Card Program, investigated the quality of the RHBC in relation to providers' ECE specific education. They found that ECE specific education positively affected quality of RHBC in comparison to post-secondary education in other fields.…”

“…Studies that inquired into unregulated homebased childcare did so indirectly by interviewing parents about their experiences with UHBC (Huang, 2007;McKinley, 2010). Research inquiring into RHBC primarily focuses on the quality of home-based childcare often comparing its quality to centre-based care on global quality, staff qualifications in early childhood education, engagement in professional development (Doherty et al, 2006;Hallam et al, 2013;Hughes-Belding et al, 2012;Lanagan, 2011;Rusby et al, 2013). Some research is available about providers' motivations to operate RHBC (Armenia, 2009) and regulated providers' experiences with operating their home-based childcare (Butler & Modaff, 2008;Freeman, 2011;Lanigan, 2011).…”