Best Practices in Creating and Adapting Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) Rating Scales
OPRE Research Brief #2016-25
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Child Care and Early Education Quality Features, Thresholds, and Dosage and Child Outcomes
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families
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The results suggest that QRIS ratings can help predict gains in child outcomes when attention is paid to the psychometric principles of scale development, including dimensionality, selecting items with strong evidence, and scoring items using established criteria for cut points.
Ratings produced in quality rating and improvement systems (QRIS) are intended to provide meaningful information to parents and policymakers about the quality of early care and education (ECE) programs. Thus it is important to establish and follow guidelines for creating QRIS ratings that can promote their validity and integrity. The purpose of this brief is to demonstrate how using the principles of scale development can support the development of QRIS ratings. The brief summarizes an analysis that uses the data from six large ECE studies to simulate state QRIS ratings.
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