This report considers the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) curriculum
throughout Europe. It explores the official curriculum, specified by national or regional …

This report considers international research on the impact of Early Childhood Education and
Care (ECEC) provision upon children's development, using studies reported from a wide …

The relationship between structural quality and process quality in early childhood education
and care (ECEC) has been addressed in several studies. However, the findings are not …

The purpose of this study was to explore the quality of toddler childcare in Norway using the
Infant Toddler Environment Rating Scale-Revised Edition (ITERS-R;[Harms, Thelma, Debby …

I denne rapporten presenteres dybdestudien i det longitudinelle forskningsprosjektet Gode
Barnehager for barn i Norge (GoBaN, www. goban. no). Med bakgrunn i hovedstudien ble et …

The core aspect within process quality is quality of interactions between caregivers and
children. This article investigates six interaction skills of caregivers in ECEC groups for …

The present study investigated the measurement properties of the Classroom Assessment
Scoring System (CLASS) Toddler using data from 276 classrooms and 375 teachers in …

This study examines the quality of infant center care in Portugal through a multi-measure
approach and investigates the associations among process quality dimensions and …

Testosterone and cortisol have both been implicated in human parenting behavior. We
investigated the relations between observed quality of caregiving during parent-child …

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between two structural factors of
quality: organisation form (stable groups versus flexible groups) and staff–child ratio, in …