The Early Care and Education Leadership Study (ExCELS) featured a descriptive study that formed the foundation for developing a new leadership measure in center-based early care and education settings. This guide provides information on the administration and scoring of the ExCELS measure.
The ExCELS descriptive study analyzed data from 110 early care and education (ECE) centers that received funding from Head Start, the Child Care and Development Fund, or both and varied in number of children enrolled. The data supported psychometric analyses to create a new ECE leadership measure.
The Early Care and Education Leadership Study (ExCELS) featured a descriptive study that formed the foundation for developing a new leadership measure in center-based early care and education settings. This user’s guide provides information on the ExCELS descriptive study restricted-use data files.
The ICHQ project team conducted two experiments of tokens of appreciation with surveys of staff in CCEE centers to test the impact of the use and amount of prepaid tokens of appreciation to improve survey response and reduce the number of days it takes for a survey respondent to complete a survey after...
The purpose of the literature review was to understand what is known about what leadership looks like in center-based early care and education settings and how it functions to improve center quality and, in turn, children’s experiences and outcomes.
This snapshot brief presents the Early Care and Education Leadership Study (ExCELS) theory of change to show what center-based early care and education (ECE) leadership looks like as well as the influences on—and of—ECE leadership.
The Early Care and Education Leadership Study (ExCELS) featured a descriptive study that was the basis for developing a new measure of leadership in center-based early care and education settings.
This brief presents the findings from a review of research on ECE leadership development initiatives from the Early Care and Education Leadership Study (ExCELS) that focuses on leadership in center-based ECE settings.
The purpose of this brief is to present an overview of distributed leadership and its role in supporting quality improvement, as well as provide an example of how ECE settings can achieve distributed leadership from a quality improvement initiative called the Culture of Continuous Learning (CCL) project.
This report details the methods for producing the draft measures of implementation and cost and prepare them for further testing.
This project snapshot provides key background and reference information about the project.
This brief, part of a series of research briefs presenting findings from a multi-case study of 30 ECE centers, focuses on the psychometric properties of the ICHQ implementation measures.
The Assessing the Implementation and Costs of High-Quality Early Care and Education (ICHQ) project is producing two types of measures for early care and education centers: implementation measures and cost measures.
This brief, part of a series of research briefs presenting findings from a multi-case study of 30 ECE centers, describes the implementation measures.
This brief, part of a series of research briefs presenting findings from a multi-case study, focuses on what we learned about the relationship between the two sets of measures and implications for how they can be used together to better understand how to support quality in ECE centers.
The purpose of the ExCELS compendium is to describe measures of leadership relevant to ECE settings. Further, the compendium identifies what information exists and what information is needed to better understand leadership and its influence in ECE settings.
This brief summarizes the experience and findings from the work of five local grantees in Colorado that launched innovations to build a qualified early childhood workforce in the state.
This literature review explores what is known about what leadership looks like within center-based early care and education settings and how it functions to improve center quality and, in turn, children’s experiences and outcomes.
This brief summarizes successful approaches to conducting intensive studies in early care and education (ECE) settings.
Part of the EMPOWERED study, this brief provides steps to help build a performance measurement framework to support program administrators and staff in using information to manage, improvement and coordinate programs and services.
Part of the EMPOWERED study, this brief provides four key considerations for creating a framework of performance indicators that can align with program goals and be used across human services and workforce programs.
This brief describes early learning and development programs' ratings in tiered quality rating and improvement systems (TQRIS) in the nine states that received Round 1 Race to the Top―Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC) grants.
This brief describes early learning and development programs’ participation and ratings in tiered quality rating and improvement systems (TQRIS) in the nine states that received Round 1 Race to the Top―Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC) grants.
This issue brief for the EMPOWERED study is based on three case studies and provides local perspectives on the challenges and opportunities for aligning performance indicators across a variety of federal programs promoting self-sufficiency.
This brief describes states’ progress in developing and implementing systems that rate early childhood education programs on quality and help them improve.
This report describes states’ progress in developing and implementing systems that rate early childhood education programs on quality and help them improve. It focuses on the nine states that received the Round 1 Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge grants.
This report summarizes the findings of a literature review conducted in an effort to develop an instrument that reliably and consistently measures implementation and costs of high-quality education and care in center-based settings that serve children from birth to age 5.