Identifying high-quality centre-based childcare using quantitative data-sets: what the numbers do and don't tell us

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DOI:10.1080/09669760.2010.531615
Corpus ID: 144758075

@article{Fenech2010IdentifyingHC, title={Identifying high-quality centre-based childcare using quantitative data-sets: what the numbers do and don't tell us}, author={Maria Aurora Fenech and Naomi Sweller and Linda J. Harrison}, journal={International Journal of Early Years Education}, year={2010}, volume={18}, pages={283 - 296}, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:144758075}}

M. Fenech, Naomi Sweller, L. Harrison
Published 1 December 2010
Education, Sociology
International Journal of Early Years Education

Abstract Quantitative approaches to defining and measuring quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) have provided a key platform for policy development. Yet their strengths and limitations as informants of high-quality ECEC have not been tested. In this study we examine two sources of quantitative data collected over a five-year period for 74 long day care centres: (1) the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale-Revised and Infant-Toddler Environment Rating Scale instruments which…

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