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Dr. Rick Fiene's Research Collection
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Dr. Rick Fiene's Research Collection
We are most grateful to Dr. Rick Fiene, Director of the Early Childhood Institute at Penn State University for sharing his research with us. Dr. Fiene has done extensive research in Licensing, Statistical Indicator Systems, and Mentoring Projects. Please use the following links below to access Dr. Fiene's research papers.
1. Making the Almost Impossible . . Possible: An Evaluation of Human Services
2. A Measure of the Child Care Ecology: Day Care Program Compliance with State Regulations
3. A Conceptual Framework for Monitoring Children's Services
4. An Instrument-Based Program Monitoring System: A New Tool for Day Care Monitoring, Volume I: Guide for Policy Makers
5. Community Psychology's Search for a Viable Paradigm: Establishing an Ecologically-Valid Intervention Research Base
6. An Instrument-Based Program Monitoring System: A New Tool for Day Care Monitoring, Volume II: Guide for Developing the Indicator Checklist
7. Child Development Program Evaluation Scale
8. Penn State-OCYF Day Care Project - Final Report of a Pilot Study
9. Instrument-Based Program Monitoring for Child Welfare
10. Child Care Quality, Compliance with Regulations, and Children's Development: The Pennsylvania Study
11. Program Quality and Licensure in Day Care Centers and Family Day Care Homes
12. Early Childhood Research and Evaluation for State Licensing Administrators
13 Licensure and Program Quality in Child Care and Early Childhood Programs
14. Quality Assessment in Early Childhood Programs: A Multi-Dimensional Approach
15. Measuring Child Care Quality
16. Promoting Change in State Policy Decisionmaking on Quality Infant-Toddler Child Care and Head Start Services
17. Utilizing a Statewide Training System to Improve Child Day Care Quality
18. A Systematic Approach to Child Care Regulatory Review, Policy Evaluation and Planning to Promote Health and Safety of Children in Child Care - A Manual for State and Local Child Care and Maternal and Child Health Agency Staff
19. Using a Statistical-Indicator Methodology for Accreditation
20. Investing in Our Children's Future - The Path to Quality Child Care through the Pennsylvania Child Care and Early Childhood Development Training System
21. Searching for a Solution for the Child Care Trilemma
22. Infant Toddler Mentoring Program Manual
23. The Relationship of Accreditation and Licensing Standards, Training, and Child Development Outcomes
24. Professional Development and the Quality of Child Care - An Assessment of Pennsylvania's Child Care Training System
25. Director Mentoring Program Manual
26. The Effectiveness of an Infant Mentoring Project - Preliminary Findings
27. Mastering Course Content and Learning Satisfaction in Early Childhood Education: A Comparison of Regular Classroom Instructions with Three Variations of Internet Delivery
28. 13 Indicators of Quality Child Care - Research Update
29. Lycoming Clinton Head Start Family Child Care Mentoring Evaluation, 2002
30. Improving Child Care Quality Through an Infant Caregiver Mentoring Project
31. How On-Site Mentoring Improves the Quality of Infant and Toddler Child Care Providers
32. Licensing Measurement - a Power Point Presentation
33. Early Care and Education - The Keystone of Pennsylvania's Future, 2002
34. Licensing Related Indicators of Quality Child Care
35. Cumberland County and Greater Carlisle Area United Way Success by Six ECERS-R Training
36. Lycoming County Early Childhood Quality Research Project, 2003
37. Child Care Quality Improvement Using Proximal Learning and Mentoring
38. Comparison of Head Start and Child Care Facilities in Pennsylvania
39. Family and Group Child Care Homes : Factors Underlying Quality of Care - PA 2002
40. Early Childhood Education - Universal Pre-K and Other Alternatives
41. The Pennsylvania MAPS Project Evaluation of Two Workshops for Early Care and Education Providers
42. Evaluation of Pennsylvania's Keystone STARS Quality Rating System in Child Care Settings
43. Pennsylvania Mind in the Making Learning Modules Evaluation
44. Home-Based and Family Child Care: Characteristics and Quality Issues
45. Using Childcare Programs as a Portal for Changing the Eating Behaviors of Young Children
NARA Report Based on Consultation for the State of New Jersey Department of Human Services, Office of Licensing, on Automated Licensing Systems
Propositional Statements in Defense of Licensing as Sound Public Policy for the Safeguarding of Children in Away-From-Home Care
By Norris Class, 1981
Research Connections, an online collection of resources for child care and early education, has a new Key Topic Resource List on Child Care Licensing and Regulations. Research Connections is a collaborative project of the National Center for Children in Poverty at Columbia University, the Child Care Bureau, and others. Click here for this valuable new resource.
The American Sociological Association has recently published a study of fatalities in child care settings that NARA recommends all child care licensors read.
The lead description appears below, and the full text is available on the ASA web site.
Fatalities and the Organization of Child Care in the United States, 1985–2003
Julia Wrigley, City University of New York Graduate Center
Joanna Dreby, City University of New York Graduate Center
Nearly 8 million children of employed parents are in nonrelative child care, but little is known about safety risks. Drawing on the literature reporting mistakes in organizations and medical errors, the authors analyze fatalities in U.S. child care. Types of child care vary greatly in organizational features, from formally organized centers to informal care offered in providers’ or children’s homes. This allows analysis of how the social organization of care affects risks. A unique national dataset is used to provide a lower bound on fatalities and to analyze fatality rates across types of care. Data come from three sources: (1) a systematic national media search for 1985–2003, (2) legal records of civil and criminal court cases involving fatalities and serious injuries in child care, and (3) ethnographic data from state records in seven states. Overall child care is quite safe, but there are striking differences in fatality rates across types of care. Center care is significantly safer than care offered in private homes and offers particular protection against fatalities from violence. Detailed narratives of how fatalities occur suggest that the organization of work is a crucial factor in risk differences.
Joint Position Paper on License Exempt Early Care and Education Programs
Regulating Dimensions of Quality in Early Care and Education: A Review of Research
Report on Effective Legal Proceedings to Ensure Provider Compliance Prepared for the State of Washington Department of Social and Health Services
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