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Assessing the Validity of the Qualistar Early Learning Quality Rating and Improvement System as a Tool for Improving Child-Care

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Assessing the Validity of the Qualistar Early Learning Quality Rating and Improvement System as a Tool for Improving Child-Care

Assessing the Validity of the Qualistar Early Learning Quality Rating and Improvement System as a Tool for Improving Child-Care Quality by Gail L. Zellman
English | June 23, 2008 | ISBN: 0833044958 | 11 Pages | PDF | 0.20 MB

As a result of the generally low quality of child care in the United States, quality rating and improvement systems (QRISs) are proliferating in the child-care arena. This study examines the QRIS developed by Qualistar Early Learning, a nonprofit organization based in Colorado, evaluating how reliable the system1s components are, whether the QRIS process helped providers to improve, and whether and how much children benefit from such improvement.
The generally low quality of child care has led to calls to improve quality, amid recognition that the current child-care system in the United States, if it can be called a system at all, does little to promote it. One increasingly popular approach involves developing and implementing what are known as quality rating systems, or QRSs.