October 29-30, 2009

The Child Care Policy Research Consortium is a national alliance of research projects sponsored by the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) in the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Consortium's purpose is to increase the national capacity for sound child care research, identify and respond to critical issues, and link child care research with policy and practice.

The Child Care Policy Research Consortium Annual Meeting was held October 29-30 2009, in Washington D.C. Pre-sessions were held on October 28. Materials from the conference, listed below, include a summary of each session along with Powerpoint presentations.

Notes

1. Most files are available in PDF format, and can be read using Acrobat Reader, a free product available from Adobe, Inc.

2. To print large Powerpoint files, click on "print" and then select "scale to fit."

3. Files are labeled as follows:

   • ZIP - Compressed Powerpoint or Excel files (decompress using WinZip)

   • PDF - Adobe PDF files

Plenaries and Breakout Sessions

Annual Meeting Overview

1. Challenges and Lessons Learned in Research with Parents about Child Care (Pre-meeting Session)

   • Summary (PDF)

2. Opening Session: Dialogue about Research Priorities with ACF Leadership (Opening Plenary)

   • Summary (PDF)

3. Coordination Across Professional Development and Training Systems: A Critical Look at the Role of Institutions of Higher Education (Breakout)

   • Summary (PDF)

   • Coordination Across Professional Development and Training Systems: A Critical Look at the Role of Institutions of Higher Learning (PDF)

4. Data and Measurement Challenges in Doing Subsidy Research (Breakout)

   • Summary (PDF)

   • Data and Measurement Challenges in Conducting Subsidy Research (PDF)

   • Study of the Effects of Enhanced Subsidy Eligibility Policies In Illinois (PDF)

   • Measuring Subsidized Child Care Utilization in the National Study of Child Care Supply and Demand (PDF) 

   • CCDF Policies Database: Providing Basic Information for Subsidy Research (PDF)

5. Emerging Issues in Home-Based Care (Breakout)

   • Summary (PDF)

   • Support for Families in Home-based Child Care: What are We Learning? (PDF)

   • What are we Learning about Strategies to Provide Education and Support to Family, Friend and Neighbor Providers? (PDF)

   • Emerging Issues in Home-Based Child Care: What Do We Know About Initiatives to Support Quality in Home-Based Settings? (PDF)

    

6. Are Quality Rating and Improvement Systems Living Up to Their Promises? (Breakout)

   • Summary (PDF)

   • Logic Model for Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (PDF)

7. High-Stakes Testing and Assessment: Quality and Children's Outcomes (Plenary)

   • Summary (PDF)

   • Purposeful Early Childhood Assessment (PDF)

   • Florida's Child Assessment Initiative (PDF)

   • High Stakes Testing and Assessment: Quality and Children's Outcomes: Kentucky's Approach to Measuring Child Progress (PDF)

8. Appropriate Linking of Data for Purposes of Examining Child Outcomes (Breakout)

   • Summary (PDF)

   • The Use of Assessment Data in Massachusetts (PDF)

   • South Carolina's Child Care Data Bridge Project (PDF)

   • What the 2008-2009 School Readiness Data Mean for Maryland's Children (PDF)

9. Subsidy Policies: What We Know about Effects on Continuity of Care, Parent Decisionmaking and Child Well-being - How Sure Are We? (Breakout)

   • Summary (PDF)

   • Child Care Subsidies and Child Well-Being (PDF)

   • Instability in Subsidized Child Care (PDF)

   • Relationship between Child Care Subsidy and the Stability of Care (PDF)

10. Strengthening Concepts and Measures of Engagement with Families (Breakout)

    • Summary (PDF)

    • Family-Sensitive Caregiving and Quality in Early Care and Education Arrangements (PDF)

    • Family Engagement, Diverse Families, and Early Childhood Programs: An Integrated Review of the Literature (PDF)

    • Discussant for Family Sensitive ECE Practice Panel (PDF)

11. Unionization in Child Care (Breakout)

    • Summary (PDF)

    • K-12 Unionism and Collective Bargaining: Distinctive Features (PDF)

    • Unionization in Child Care: the Illinois Perspective (PDF)

12. Understanding Parental Decisions about Children's Care: Theoretical, Methodological, and Practical Insights (Plenary)

    • Summary (PDF)

    • Theoretical Models of Child Care Decision Making (PDF)

    • Study of the Effects of Enhanced Subsidy Eligibility Policies In Illinois (PDF)

    • Understanding Parental Decisions about Children's Care: Theoretical, Methodological, and Practical Insights (PDF)

13. Early Childhood Workforce-Assessing and Measuring Readiness for Change (Plenary)

    • Summary (PDF)

    • Readiness to Change: Implications for Improving Quality in Early Care and Education (PDF)

    • Assessing and Measuring Readiness for Change: Potential Applications to Quality Initiatives for Home-Based Child Care (PDF)

    • Discussion of Shira Peterson's Readiness to Change Paper (PDF)

14. Quality and Children's Development in the Earliest Years (Breakout)

    • Summary (PDF)

    • Sustained Exposure to High Quality Programming During the Earliest Years: Evidence from the Educare Cross-site Implementation Study (PDF)

    • Evidence of Quality for Infants and Toddlers Emerging from National Data (PDF)

    • New Analytic Approaches: Analyzing the Impact of Subsidy Receipt on Quality in Longitudinal Data (PDF)

15. How Parents Use Child Care Information: The Known and Unknown (Breakout)

    • Summary (PDF)

    • QRIS From a Parents' Perspective: Is It Working? (PDF)

    • How Parents Use Child Care Information: The Known and Unknown (PDF)

    • Providing Information on Child Care to Parents: Preliminary Findings from Oregon (PDF)

16. Measuring Implementation in Research and Practice (Breakout)

    • Summary (PDF)

    • Measuring Implementation in Research & Practice: Developing an Implementation Measure for Project Upgrade (PDF)

    • Massachusetts Family Child Care Study Measuring Fidelity of Implementation (PDF)

    • Assessing Fidelity: A Necessary Component of Effective Implementation (PDF)

17. Assessing School Readiness in Special Populations (Breakout)

    • Summary (PDF)

    • Assessing Dual Language Learners and Children of Immigrant Families in Early Care and Education (PDF) 

    • School Readiness and the Assessment of Children with Disabilities (PDF)

18. Outside Forces Affecting Child Care Markets (Plenary)

    • Summary (PDF)

    • Recession Impact on ECE (PDF)

    • Outside Forces Affecting Child Care Markets: Insights into Market Dynamics (PDF)

    • Providers and the Recession: Insights from Urban Institute Research (PDF)

19. Big Issues and Small Insights: A Discussion with ACF Leadership (Closing Plenary)

    • Summary (PDF)