TY - JOUR
T1 - Improving quality of the child care environment through a consultancy programme for centre directors
AU - Helmerhorst, Katrien O.W.
AU - Fukkink, Ruben G.
AU - Riksen-Walraven, J. Marianne A.
AU - Gevers Deynoot-Schaub, Mirjam J.J.M.
AU - Tavecchio, Louis W.C.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2017/10/2
Y1 - 2017/10/2
N2 - This study examined the effects of a newly developed on-site consultancy programme to improve global quality of the child care environment in non-parental child care centres for 0- to 4-year-old children as measured with the ITERS-R/ECERS-R. Using a randomised controlled trial with a pretest, posttest, and follow-up test, we compared 35 experimental group with 33 control group. The consultancy programme comprised three consultations in total. Analysis on the items that were specifically targeted during the consultancy showed a significant improvement on these targeted items between pretest and posttest and between posttest and follow-up. The effect of the consultancy programme on the total scores (including the non-targeted items) was not significant.
AB - This study examined the effects of a newly developed on-site consultancy programme to improve global quality of the child care environment in non-parental child care centres for 0- to 4-year-old children as measured with the ITERS-R/ECERS-R. Using a randomised controlled trial with a pretest, posttest, and follow-up test, we compared 35 experimental group with 33 control group. The consultancy programme comprised three consultations in total. Analysis on the items that were specifically targeted during the consultancy showed a significant improvement on these targeted items between pretest and posttest and between posttest and follow-up. The effect of the consultancy programme on the total scores (including the non-targeted items) was not significant.
KW - Centre-based child care
KW - consultancy
KW - ECERS-R
KW - global quality of the child care environment
KW - ITERS-R
KW - randomised controlled trial
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85019118538&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/09669760.2017.1321528
DO - 10.1080/09669760.2017.1321528
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85019118538
SN - 0966-9760
VL - 25
SP - 361
EP - 378
JO - International Journal of Early Years Education
JF - International Journal of Early Years Education
IS - 4
ER -