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Improving Quality for Child Care Centers in Greater Philadelphia: An Evaluation of Success by 6®. Final Report. Publication #2016-07
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Warner-Richter, Mallory; Lowe, Claire; Tout, Kathryn; Epstein, Dale; Li, Weilin – Child Trends, 2016
The Success By 6® (SB6) initiative is designed to support early care and education centers in improving and sustaining quality in Pennsylvania's Keystone STARS Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS). This SB6 evaluation report examines implementation and outcomes. The findings have implications for SB6 continous quality improvement process…
Descriptors: Success, Research Reports, Child Care Centers, Educational Improvement
Improving Quality for Child Care Centers in Greater Philadelphia: An Evaluation of Success by 6®. Executive Summary. Publication #2016-07A
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Warner-Richter, Mallory; Lowe, Claire; Tout, Kathryn; Epstein, Dale; Li, Weilin – Child Trends, 2016
The Success By 6® (SB6) initiative is designed to support early care and education centers in improving and sustaining quality in Pennsylvania's Keystone STARS Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS). The SB6 evaluation report examines implementation and outcomes. The findings have implications for SB6 continous quality improvement process…
Descriptors: Success, Research Reports, Child Care Centers, Educational Improvement
Using Systematic Reviews to Investigate Research in Early Childhood
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Penn, Helen; Lloyd, Eva – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2006
This article explores how the evidence base for aspects of early childhood has been explored using systematic research synthesis methods developed at the Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre (EPPI-Centre). Three early childhood systematic reviews have been carried out using EPPI-Centre procedures and tools. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inferences, Early Childhood Education, Action Research
A Synthesis of Findings across Five Recent Studies in Educational Dissemination and Change. Revised Version.
Emrick, John A.; Peterson, Susan M. – 1978
Reviewing five large-scale investigations of educational dissemination and change, this report synthesizes and consolidates their findings and implications around an issue of common interest to policymakers, program administrators, and researchers: what can be learned from these studies about processes and procedures that facilitate knowledge…
Descriptors: Diffusion, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Research
The Process of Evaluation in Rural Development.
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Wetherill, G. Richard – 1976
Program evaluation can be used for both program improvement and program justification, and it can aid in program planning and policy making. In evaluation, we must be concerned with the components which not only make up the program but also the evaluation such as program objectives or goals, program personnel interaction, program processes,…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Criteria, Decision Making, Definitions
Service Networks and Patterns of Utilization: Mental Health Programs, Indian Health Service (IHS). Volume 1: Overview and Recommendations.
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Attneave, Carolyn L.; Beiser, Morton – 1975
Constituting an overview of a 10-volume report on the historical development and contemporary activities (1966-1973) of each of the 8 administrative Area Offices of the Indian Health Service (IHS) Mental Health Programs, this volume includes: the methods used for data collection (personal interviews with both past and present IHS key officials,…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Agency Role, Alcoholism, American Indians