Quality and impact of Centre-based Early Childhood Education and Care

doi:10.7249/RR1670

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DOI	10.7249/RR1670
报告编号	RR-1670-EC
	Quality and impact of Centre-based Early Childhood Education and Care
	Barbara Janta; Janna van Belle; Katherine Stewart
	2016
出版年	2016
页数	35
语种	英语
国家	美国
出版者	RAND Corporation
领域	资源环境
英文摘要	There is a strong association between the quality of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) provision and the outcomes for children, with high quality ECEC being associated with better child outcomes later in life. This brief reviewed the broad range of indicators that have been linked to quality, with a focus on understanding how these indicators relate to quality and eventual child outcomes. Following the academic literature on this subject we distinguished between structural quality, which relates to the physical environment and staffing requirement, and process quality, which relates to curricular practices, caregiver qualities, and parental involvement. We found that the interaction between structural and process indicators of ECEC quality is complex, and varies significantly across socio-economic, cultural and national contexts, which reflects the beliefs, needs, roles and motivations of the different stakeholders involved in defining ECEC services. Despite this complexity we identified several structural indicators which are frequently considered indicators of high process quality. For each of these indicators we present policy levers for improving ECEC quality, and discuss the context in which these levers work, i.e. whether they act at national level, family and community level or at the level of the childcare setting.
英文关键词	European Union Preschool Education Curriculum Teachers and Teaching Preschool Children Education Policy
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来源平台	Rand Corporation
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文献类型	科技报告
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/4459
专题	资源环境科学
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Barbara Janta,Janna van Belle,Katherine Stewart. Quality and impact of Centre-based Early Childhood Education and Care:RAND Corporation,2016.