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Two measures of the quality of group care for infants and toddlers |
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| Authors: | Emanuel Kuno Beller Marita Stahnke Petra Butz Walter Stahl Holger Wessels |
| Institution: | 1. Institut für Kleinkindp?dagogik, Freie Universit?t Berlin, Hechtgraben 6-8, 14195, Berlin, Germany 2. Institut für Sozial und Kleinkindp?dagogik, Kleinkindp?dagogik, Freie Universit?t Berlin, Takustra?e 4, 14195, Berlin, Germany 3. Institut für Allgemeine P?dagogik, Freie Universit?t Berlin, Fabeckstr 13, 14195, Berlin, Germany 4. Institut für Psychologie: Methodik, Diagnostik, Evaluation, Universit?t Bremen, Grazer Str. 2A, Postfach 33 04 40, 28334, Bremen, Germany 5. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 9190 Rockville Pike, 20850, MD, USA |
| Abstract: | Two sets of quality measures of group care were used to assess their predictive power for two sets of measures of the development of infant and toddlers in group day care. One of the quality measures we investigated was the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (ECERS). We replicated the findings of Scarr, Eisenberg, & Dealer-Deckard (1994) which were that the total score of the ECERS represents a global index and that the 37 items making up the scale are redundant and could be shortened considerably without loss of the scale as a quality criterion of group care for young children. Neither Scarr, Eisenberg, and Dealer-Deckard (1994) nor our own Factor Analyses of the 37 items supported the a priori distinction of seven Subscales. However further findings indicate that regardless of the redundancy within ECERS, two Subscales, dealing mainly with adult-child, child-child and adult-adult interactions, predict the development of infants and toddlers, but only when the measures of development were based on participant observations of the children over a longer period of time and in the broad context of the natural daycare environment. None of the Subscales, nor the total ECERS predicted social development when it was based on precise time sampling observations, assessed by non participant observers, in interactions between a child and a specific caregiver. Such measures of development were well predicted in our study by caregiver behaviors assessed through Time Sampling Observations. |
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