Child Care Quality: Does It Matter and Does It Need To Be Improved?.

By D. Vandell, B. Wolfe. 2000

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Early Child Care and Children’s Development Prior to School Entry: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care (2002, background): “Others (Burchinal & Nelson, in press; Vandell & Wolfe, 2000) have contended that child-care effects are underestimated when too many family selection factors are included because some controls, such as parenting, that influence selection of child care also are influenced by children’s child-care…”
Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Early Education Interventions on Cognitive and Social Development (2010, result): “The findings of this study span a wider range than previous meta-analyses, but they are consistent with those of earlier studies (e.g., Barnett, 1998; Gormley & Gayer, 2003; Nelson et al., 2003; Vandell & Wolfe, 2000).”
Stability in Center Day Care: Relations with Children's Well-being and Problem Behavior in Day Care1 (2004, background): “Structural dimensions of quality of child care, such as professional caregiver–child ratio, caregiver education, and staff turnover rate have been found to predict the child’s socio-emotional development (Clarke-Stewart et al., 1994; Phillips, 1987; Vandell & Wolfe, 2000).”
Starting Strong (2003, background): “In sum, a strong economic rationale exists in favour of establishing national networks of early childhood services (ESO/Swedish Finance Ministry Report, 1999; Sen, 1999; Urrutia, 1999; Van der Gaag, 2002; Vandell and Wolfe, 2000; Verry, 2000).”
The Costs of Being a Child Care Teacher (2006, unknown): “…as the number of children in a room, the staff-child ratio, and the physical environment of the classroom (Cryer, 1999; Dwyer, Chait, & McKee, 2000; Harms, 1992; Howes & Brown, 2000; Howes, Phillips, & Whitebook, 1992; Phillips, Mekos, Scarr, McCartney, & Abbott-Shim, 2000; Vandell & Wolfe, 2000).”
Comparative benefit-cost analysis of the Abecedarian program and its policy implications (2007, background): “The stability and general quality of child care arrangements may influence mothers’ ability to concentrate on matters related to work or employment ( Vandell & Wolfe, 2002 ).”
Mother and father language input to young children: Contributions to later language development. (2006, background): “Since overall level of formal education has also been shown to be associated with child care quality (Berk, 1985; Blau, 2000; Howes, 1997; Vandell & Wolfe, 2000; Whitebook, Howes, & Phillips, 1989), we also scored teachers as having (1) or not having (0) any post-high school formal education,…”
Modeling the impacts of child care quality on children's preschool cognitive development. (2003, background): “Psychologists have also found that child care quality is associated with cognitive and language skills in nonexperimental studies (Vandell & Wolfe, 2000).”
Revisiting the Two Faces of Child Care Quality: Structure and Process (2005, background): “Vandell and Wolfe (2000) provide a summary of the research demonstrating the relationship between structural and process quality.”
Capturing Quality in Early Childhood through Environmental Rating Scales (2006, background): “…21 (2006) 76–92 77 better developmental outcomes, and lower quality to lower developmental outcomes (Besky, 2001; Peisner-Feinberg et al., 2000; Vandell & Wolfe, 2000) and that this is particularly true for children from disadvantaged backgrounds “who would otherwise experience impoverished…”
Early Childhood Teachers' Curriculum Beliefs: Are They Consistent With Observed Classroom Practices? (2011, background): “One often-studied classroom feature is teacher–child ratio, and this has been found to be associated with teachers' interactional quality with children (Burchinal, Howes, & Kontos, 2002 ; Vandell & Wolfe, 2000 ).”