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Child Care
Child Care and Developmental Outcomes
Last Updated Nov 18, 2008 10:08 PM
DOES QUALITY OF CHILD CARE HAVE MEANINGFUL EFFECTS ON CHILDREN’S DEVELOPMENTAL OUTCOMES?
There are substantial challenges for researchers and policy makers who seek to answer questions about the effects of child care quality on children’s development. One well-acknowledged difficulty is the absence of well-controlled experiments in which children are randomly assigned to child care that varies in quality. Instead, investigators have studied children whose families and child care settings are willing to participate. This examination of naturally occurring child care, as opposed to more controlled experiments, poses challenges for researchers and policy makers (Blau, 1999c; Lamb, 1998; NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 1994; Vandell and Corasaniti, 1990). These challenges are related to family/child selection biases and to restricted variability in quality scores. Before reviewing research findings pertaining to effects of quality, we briefly describe common strategies for addressing these research challenges.
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Kidslearnonline.com has set this Child Care section to advise parents about the latest information related to Child Care. Our editors at Kidslearnonline.com search for Child Care related articles on the web on a regular basis. As soon as we find a Child C A critical issue in evaluating the research evidence is consideration of how child care quality is measured. Researchers have measured quality in various ways: by observing process, by recording structural and caregiver characteristics, by assessing health and safety provisions. Child care processes refer to actual experiences that occur in child care settings, including children’s interactions with caregivers and peers and their participatio... Assessment of the Cost of Improving Quality
As we suggested, analyses that shed light on the developmental benefits of child care characteristics for children is an important element of the answer to our question. A related task involves determining the levels of investment necessary to achieve improved quality. Although this topic has not received the same level of attention in the literature as the overall relationship between quality of care and child outcomes, several studies consider the financial costs of increasing structural measures of quality. Though ... |
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