October 23-25, 2012

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 (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Consortium's purpose is to help ACF increase the national capacity for sound child care research, explore the latest in research findings, questions and methods, engage in problemsolving around challenging issues and questions, and identify future research needs.

The 2012 Annual Meeting of the Child Care Policy Research Consortium (CCPRC) was held from October 23 to 25, 2012, in Bethesda, Maryland. Materials for the CCPRC 2012 plenary sessions and workshops and the methodology presession are available through the links below. All files are in PDF form.

Plenaries and Workshops

Annual Meeting Overview

• Plenary 1: Opening and Welcome from ACF Leadership/Policy Context and Priorities

  • Summary  

• Plenary 2: Overview of Conceptual Issues, Policy Levers and Administrative Practices to Promote the Use of High Quality Programs

  • Summary

  • Application of Behavioral Economics to Child Care

  • Overview of Conceptual Issues, Policy Levers, and Administrative Practices to Promote the Use of High Quality Programs

• Workshop Session A1: Child Care Subsidies, Access and Choice: Emerging Insights and Unanswered Questions

  • Summary

  • Summary of Small Group Work

  • Taking Subsidy Research Forward: Parental Access and Choice of High-Quality Care

• Workshop Session A2: Learning Together about the Provider Perspective on Child Care Subsidies

  • Summary

  • Learning Together about the Provider Perspective on Child Care Subsidies: An Overview of the Research

• Workshop Session A3: Strengthening the Workforce through Professional Development and Quality Improvement Systems

  • Summary

  • Characteristics and Professional Development Experiences of Early Educators in Massachusetts

  • Professional Development Outcomes from Oregon?s Education Quality Investment Partnership (EQUIP)

  • The Process Evaluation of Head Start?s Early Learning Mentor Coach Initiative (ELMC): Informing Research and Practice

• Workshop Session A4: Building a Research Agenda on Effective Monitoring and Quality Assurance in Early Childhood Systems

  • Summary

  • Key Indicator Methodology

  • NAEYC Accreditation Monitoring and Quality Assurance

  • Supporting States in Enhancing Reliability of QRIS Ratings: What we are learning from CLASS?

• Plenary 3: Post-Data Collection Updates from the National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE)

  • Summary

  • National Survey of Early Care and Education

• Plenary 4: Building the Conceptual Framework for Quality Improvement Initiatives: Child Outcomes Supported by System Outcomes

  • Summary

  • Background on QRIS Quality Categories and Indicators

  • Critical Outcomes for QRIS

  • Issues to Consider in Examining Quality Indicators in QRIS

• Workshop Session B1: Supporting Successful Participation of Home-Based Providers within QRIS

  • Summary

  • Family Friend and Neighbor Child Care: Policy Options and Research Questions

  • Paths to QUALITY: Indiana's Experience Supporting Home-based Providers within QRIS

  • Supporting Home Based Providers: Emerging Frameworks

• Workshop Session B2: Subsidies and Continuity: Fostering Consistency through Policies and Practice

  • Summary

  • Subsidies and Continuity: Overview of Findings of Recent Studies

  • Summary of Small Group Work

• Workshop Session B3: Methodological Lessons from Implementation of the National Survey of Early Care and Education

  • Summary

  • Counting and Characterizing the ECE Workforce: Center-Based

  • Home-Based Providers in the NSECE

  • The National Survey of Early Care and Education Center-Based Provider Screening

• Workshop Session B4: Challenges and Options for Studying Child Outcomes in the Context of Quality Improvement Initiatives/QRIS

  • Summary

  • Challenges and Options for Studying Child Outcomes in the Context of QRIS

  • Child Care Quality and Child Outcomes in Indiana's Child Care Quality Rating System

  • Issues in Studying Child Outcomes in Quality Improvement Initiatives

  • Key Considerations for Examining Child Outcomes within Quality Rating and Improvement Systems 

• Plenary 5:  Sharing of Cross-Cutting Insights across Sessions and Topics

  • Summary

  • Sharing of Cross-Cutting Insights

• Plenary 6: QRIS Participation and Movement Patterns (State Examples) and Innovative Methodologies for Tracking Movement in QRIS

  • Summary

  • QRIS Program Participation & Movement: Composting with Data, Design Matters and Policy to Nurture QRIS Growth

• Workshop Session C1: Linking and Using Data to Support Quality Improvement Initiatives/QRIS Policy Decisions

  • Summary

• Workshop Session C2: Child Care in the Lives of Low-Income Families: Findings from the Child Care Policy Research Partnership Grants

  • Summary

  • Child Care in the Lives of Low-Income Families: Findings from the Child Care Policy Research Partnership Grants

• Workshop Session C3: Using the CCDF Policies Database in Child Care Research

  • Summary 

  • Linking State Child Care and Child Welfare Policies and Outcomes

  • Using the CCDF Policies Database in Child Care Research

• Plenary 7: A Framework for Future Child Care Subsidy Research

  • Summary

  • Access and Choice

  • Child Care Subsidy Research Agenda: Provider Perspectives

  • Continuity: Building a Subsidy Research Agenda

• Closing Plenary: Highlights Across Themes and Reflections for ACF Leadership

  • Summary

  • Lipscomb PPT (diagram)

  • Breakout Session Ideas for Our Next CCPRC Meeting

• Methodology Presession Workshop

  • Summary