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Irma Arteaga; Andreas de Barros; Alejandro J. Ganimian – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Home-visitation programs have improved child development in low- and middle-income countries, but they are costly to scale due to their reliance on trained workers. We evaluated an inexpensive and low-tech alternative with 2,433 caregivers of children aged 6 to 30 months served by 250 public childcare centers in Uttarakhand, India: automated phone…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Child Rearing, Infants
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Weinstock, Phyllis; Bos, Johannes; Tseng, Fannie; Rosenthal, Emily; Ortiz, Lorena; Dowsett, Chantelle; Huston, Aletha; Bentley, Alison – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2012
Little research has been conducted on the effectiveness of training strategies for child care providers. The current study used an experimental intent-to-treat design to measure the impact of an established intervention, the on-site caregiver training component of the Program for Infant/Toddler Care (PITC), on child development and child care…
Descriptors: Child Care Occupations, Caregiver Training, On the Job Training, Intervention
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Buell, Martha; Hallam, Rena; Adams, Jennifer; Wilson, Kathy – Childhood Education, 2000
Describes Project CREATE (Caregiver Recruitment, Education, and Training Enhancement), designed to improve the quality of community-based child care programs in Delaware, and provided in three 1-credit modules at no cost to participants. Identifies barriers to providing education to infant and toddler caregivers. Presents preliminary evaluation…
Descriptors: Caregiver Training, Child Caregivers, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
Musick, Judith S. – 1996
This qualitative research study evaluated the impact of the Family Child Care Connection, a model designed to improve the quality of family child care for infants and toddlers. This 5-year project was administered by the YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago and implemented in four satellite networks of family child care providers located in low income…
Descriptors: Caregiver Training, Early Childhood Education, Family Day Care, Infants