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Varmuza, Petr; Perlman, Michal; Falenchuk, Olesya – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2021
In the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) sector there is a move to reduce oversight costs by reducing the frequency of quality assessments in providers who score highly consistently across time. However, virtually nothing is known about the stability of ECEC quality assessments over time. Using a validated measure of overall classroom…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Care Centers, Educational Quality
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Varmuza, Petr; Perlman, Michal; White, Linda A. – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2019
This study examined early childhood education and care (ECEC) utilization in Canada, focusing on use of unlicensed home child care (HCC) from an equity perspective. Data from the 2011 cycle of the General Social Survey (GSS) were used. Across Canada, parent responses reveal that 16.6% of children between the age of 12 months and entry to school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Child Care Centers
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Perlman, Michal; Howe, Nina; Gulyas, Cathryn; Falenchuk, Olesya – Early Education and Development, 2020
Research Findings: We investigated associations between the characteristics of directors, their practices in supervising educators, and the quality of classrooms in their centers. Directors from 71 randomly selected child care centers (106 classrooms) serving preschool-age children in Toronto, Canada, completed a questionnaire asking about their…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Supervision, Correlation, Educational Quality
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Perlman, Michal; Brunsek, Ashley; Hepditch, Anne; Gray, Karen; Falenchuck, Olesya – Early Education and Development, 2017
Research Findings: There is a growing need for accurate and efficient measures of classroom quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings. Observational measures are costly, as their administration generally takes 3-5 hr per classroom. This article outlines the process of development and preliminary concurrent validity testing of…
Descriptors: Child Care, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality, Test Construction