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Elizabeth Hentschel; Ha T. T. Tran; Hannah H. Leslie; Aisha K. Yousafzai – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: Childcare provider stress and job satisfaction has been found to influence childcare quality in high-income contexts, but this phenomenon has yet to be studied in a low- or middle-income country. In 2019-2020, we tested the reliability and validity of the Child Care Center Work Environment Scale (CCCWES) with 416 childcare…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Stress Variables, Job Satisfaction, Child Care
Liana Lin – John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development, 2024
The availability and accessibility of high-quality child care in the state of New Jersey is an issue that has been, and continues to be, explored by the research community. New Jersey's child care landscape is underpinned by the child care workforce, which has been significantly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in recent years. Launched into the…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Caregivers, Labor Force, Child Care Centers
Virginia S. Lovison; Cecilia H. Mo – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
While investing in the teacher workforce is central to improving schools, school resources are notoriously limited, forcing school leaders to make difficult decisions on how to prioritize funds. This paper examines a critical input to resource allocation decisions: teacher preferences. Using an original, online discrete choice survey experiment…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Salary Wage Differentials, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Recruitment
Meacham, Deborah, Ed. – Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, 2019
When the Model Work Standards were first crafted more than two decades ago, they were built on the premise that quality child care jobs are the cornerstone of high-quality services for children and families. The intent of these standards is to make it possible for those who choose family child care as a career to reasonably and responsibly support…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Family Environment, Caregivers
Talan, Teri N.; Bloom, Paula Jorde – Teachers College Press, 2018
The "Business Administration Scale for Family Child Care" (BAS) is the first valid and reliable tool for measuring and improving the overall quality of business and professional practices in family child care settings. It is applicable for multiple uses, including program self-improvement, technical assistance and monitoring, training,…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Child Care, Rating Scales, Qualifications
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Lambert, Olga D. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
This study investigates the relationships between individual learner characteristics and gain in writing performance as measured by a standardized writing assessment in a sample of community college academic English as a Second Language (ESL) students in the United States. The ethnically and linguistically diverse convenience sample included 76…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Writing Skills, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning