Capstone Project: How is quality child care important for child development?
The purpose of this paper is to determine how important quality child care is for the development of children. The first article to be critiqued and reviewed is Child Care Subsidy Use and Child Care Quality in Low Wealth, Rural Communities. The second article to be critiqued and reviewed is Relating Child Care during Infancy to Externalizing and Internalizing Behaviors in Toddler Hood.
Child Care Subsidy Use and Child Care Quality in Low Wealth, Rural Communities The Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) is a program used to serve low income families, including the working poor. Although these programs are available there has been a number of families …show more content…
The sample was taken from all babies who were born to mothers who reside in three rural communities in the low- wealth counties in Eastern North Carolina and three in Central Pennsylvania. The following questions were addressed in this study: (1) Do eligible families access subsides; (2) Which families access subsidies; (3) What arrangements do they make; and (4) Do children whose families take-up subsidies receive better care quality than those who do not? It is hypothesizes that subsidy programs need to be maintained.
The authors used two measures of reliability. The Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment was used to access child care quality. This measure showed good interrater reliability as well as good test-retest reliability. This measure was used in many studies regarding the poor. The second measure of reliability was geographic isolation. Descriptive studies were used to examine if FLP participants were using subsidies. This information can be found in Table 1. The measures of central tendency is mean.
Findings suggest that subsidy programs are important. It supports the hypothesis. Subsidy programs have allowed low income families to have higher quality care. It also suggest that subsidy programs need to be …show more content…
It also examines the quality differences between Head Start and non –Head Start settings and identifies factors associated with receiving higher quality care.
The sample of this study is 7,500 children who were assessed at 48 months of age.
The data in this study was analyzed from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey, Birth Cohort. It is a representative of children born in 2001. The ECLS_B field staff interviewed parents and administered child assessments at 9, 24. 48 and 60 months of age. However, data from the child care arrangements at 48 months are available in this study. It is hypothesized that child care quality influences development and well-being of children throughout childhood and beyond. Two measures are used in this study. The Early Childhood Environmental Rating Scale, Revised Edition and the Family Day Care Rating Scale. The Early Child hood Environmental Rating Scale was reliable and the inter-rater reliability in this study was 96%. The Family Scale provide poor reliability. For example it was found that one-third poor children were in Head Start, among poor children (4.75 vs. 4.228, p <0.001). African Americans received the lowest child care quality in both non – Head Start and Head Start
The purpose of this paper is to determine how important quality child care is for the development of children. The first article to be critiqued and reviewed is Child Care Subsidy Use and Child Care Quality in Low Wealth, Rural Communities. The second article to be critiqued and reviewed is Relating Child Care during Infancy to Externalizing and Internalizing Behaviors in Toddler Hood.
Child Care Subsidy Use and Child Care Quality in Low Wealth, Rural Communities The Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) is a program used to serve low income families, including the working poor. Although these programs are available there has been a number of families …show more content…
The sample was taken from all babies who were born to mothers who reside in three rural communities in the low- wealth counties in Eastern North Carolina and three in Central Pennsylvania. The following questions were addressed in this study: (1) Do eligible families access subsides; (2) Which families access subsidies; (3) What arrangements do they make; and (4) Do children whose families take-up subsidies receive better care quality than those who do not? It is hypothesizes that subsidy programs need to be maintained.
The authors used two measures of reliability. The Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment was used to access child care quality. This measure showed good interrater reliability as well as good test-retest reliability. This measure was used in many studies regarding the poor. The second measure of reliability was geographic isolation. Descriptive studies were used to examine if FLP participants were using subsidies. This information can be found in Table 1. The measures of central tendency is mean.
Findings suggest that subsidy programs are important. It supports the hypothesis. Subsidy programs have allowed low income families to have higher quality care. It also suggest that subsidy programs need to be …show more content…
It also examines the quality differences between Head Start and non –Head Start settings and identifies factors associated with receiving higher quality care.
The sample of this study is 7,500 children who were assessed at 48 months of age.
The data in this study was analyzed from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey, Birth Cohort. It is a representative of children born in 2001. The ECLS_B field staff interviewed parents and administered child assessments at 9, 24. 48 and 60 months of age. However, data from the child care arrangements at 48 months are available in this study. It is hypothesized that child care quality influences development and well-being of children throughout childhood and beyond. Two measures are used in this study. The Early Childhood Environmental Rating Scale, Revised Edition and the Family Day Care Rating Scale. The Early Child hood Environmental Rating Scale was reliable and the inter-rater reliability in this study was 96%. The Family Scale provide poor reliability. For example it was found that one-third poor children were in Head Start, among poor children (4.75 vs. 4.228, p <0.001). African Americans received the lowest child care quality in both non – Head Start and Head Start