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Caronongan, Pia; Kirby, Gretchen; Malone, Lizabeth M.; Boller, Kimberly – Administration for Children & Families, 2011
Quality measurement serves as a foundation for child care Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS). Understanding the variation that exists in quality measurement, the different contexts in which states make decisions, and the factors that play into their decisions can help administrators identify where their state may fall along the spectrum…
Descriptors: Child Care, Early Childhood Education, Rating Scales, Measurement Techniques
Lee, Jaekyung – Education and the Public Interest Center, 2010
The Education Trust research report "Stuck Schools" suggests a framework for identifying chronically low-performing schools in need of turnaround. The study uses Maryland and Indiana to show that some low-performing schools make progress while others remain stagnant. The report has four serious problems of reliability and validity,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Improvement, Identification, Data Analysis