Promotion of early childhood development and mental health in quality rating and improvement systems for early care and education: A review of state quality …

H Hutchins, J Abercrombie, C Lipton - Early childhood research quarterly, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract In the United States (US), quality rating and improvement systems (QRIS) are used
by many states to incentivize quality in ECE and may be a viable lever for promoting early …

Who participates in quality rating and improvement systems?

JM Jenkins, JK Duer, M Connors - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2021 - Elsevier
Even with rapid and widespread expansion of states' quality rating and improvement
systems (QRIS)—tiered frameworks that assess, communicate, and improve early childhood …

The effects of a high quality state-run preschool program as rated by a Quality Rating and Improvement System on children's school readiness

SA Schmitt, JA Elicker, DJ Purpura, RJ Duncan… - Early Childhood …, 2023 - Elsevier
The goal of this study was to evaluate the effects of attending a state-run preschool program
that is rated as “higher quality” on a state's Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) …

Paying for preschool: Who blends funding in early childhood education?

JK Duer, J Jenkins - Educational Policy, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
As a result of patchwork policies, early childhood education (ECE) providers combine
funding from multiple sources, known as blended funding. However, little is known about the …

Kindergarten transition and readiness

AJ Mashburn, J LoCasale-Crouch, KC Pears - … Publishing. https://doi. org …, 2018 - Springer
Each fall, four million children in the United States start kindergarten (National Center for
Education Statistics, 2017a). For some, this is the first time they step foot in a classroom …

The changing portrait of center-based preschool teachers: 1990 and 2012

DA Phillips, S Anderson, AR Datta, E Kisker - Children and Youth Services …, 2019 - Elsevier
Preschool teachers are widely acknowledged as critical to supporting the school readiness
of children, yet remain under-paid relative to their education levels and have high rates of …

Toddlers' developmental trajectories as a function of QRIS rated child care quality

J Elicker, ZS Gold, AA Mishra, SF Lane - Child & Youth Care Forum, 2022 - Springer
Background State-level child care quality rating and improvement systems (QRIS) have
been implemented in a majority of states in the USA One goal is to improve developmental …

Supporting Healthy Weight in Statewide Quality Rating and Improvement Systems: A Review of 2020 Standards and Comparison to 2015 Standards

K Hall, N Geary, AL Warnock, C Dooyema - Childhood Obesity, 2023 - liebertpub.com
Background: Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRISs) are used to assess, improve,
and communicate quality in early care and education (ECE) programs. One strategy for …

What Drives Early Childhood Providers to Increase Quality? Using Expectancy-Value Theory to Understand Providers' Motivations and Challenges in Quality Rating …

E Hur, B Boyle, K Ardeleanu, L Jeon… - Early Education and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Research Findings: Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) are
operated with an assumption that early childhood education (ECE) providers will participate …

Testing theoretical explanations for heterogeneity in associations between a state quality rating and improvement system and prekindergarten children's academic …

JK Finders, RJ Duncan, DJ Purpura, J Elicker… - Contemporary …, 2023 - Elsevier
The present study tests two complementary developmental theories regarding the fit
between children's skills and their environments within the context of a state Quality Rating …