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This study examines associations between Australia’s regulatory ratings of quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC)—the National Quality Standard (NQS)—and two research-based quality rating scales. The analytic sample consisted of 257 ECEC services across three Australian states. Results indicated (1) modest positive associations between NQS ratings and scale scores; (2) some specificity between NQS quality areas (educational programs and practice; relationships with children) and...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher's Version
- Publisher:
- Springer Publisher's website
- Journal:
- The Australian Educational Researcher Journal website
- Volume:
- 46
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 365–383
- Publication date:
- 2019-04-16
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-04-03
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2210-5328
- ISSN:
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0311-6999
- Pubs id:
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pubs:992194
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uri:09965adb-3b4f-43fb-8e73-c7bce25b9b8f
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uuid:09965adb-3b4f-43fb-8e73-c7bce25b9b8f
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- pubs:992194
- Language:
- English
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- Copyright holder:
- Siraj et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2019
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- © The Author(s) 2019. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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Comparing regulatory and non-regulatory indices of early childhood education and care (ECEC) quality in the Australian early childhood sector
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