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The present study describes the field testing procedures used to evaluate the reliability and predictive validity of the Parent Guide to Quality Day Care Centers. Twenty-six women were asked to use the items in the guide as a basis for observing in several local day care centers prejudged by local child care professionals to provide a given quality level of services. The results showed that a significant number of the items (80%) were reliably observed more frequently in centers prejudged to provide above-average services than in centers prejudged to provide below-average services.
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Bradbard, M. R., & Endsley, R. C. Developing a parent guide to quality day care centers,Child Care Quarterly, 1978(a),7(4), 279–288.
Bradbard, M. R., & Endsley, R. C. Improving inexperienced raters' evaluations of day care quality through the use of a guide,Child Care Quarterly, 1978(b),7(4), 295–301.
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Reprints and an extended version of this paper can be obtained from Marilyn R. Bradbard, Department of Child and Family Development, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36830.
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Bradbard, M.R., Endsley, R.C. Field testing a parent guide to quality day care centers. Child Youth Care Forum 7, 289–294 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01555173
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01555173