TY - JOUR
T1 - Measuring the quality of early childhood education
T2 - Associations with children’s development from a national study with the IMCEIC tool in Colombia
AU - Maldonado-Carreño, Carolina
AU - Yoshikawa, Hirokazu
AU - Escallón, Eduardo
AU - Ponguta, Liliana Angélica
AU - Nieto, Ana María
AU - Kagan, Sharon Lynn
AU - Rey- Guerra, Catalina
AU - Cristancho, Juan Camilo
AU - Mateus, Angy
AU - Caro, Luz Angela
AU - Aragon, Carlos Andrés
AU - Rodríguez, Ana María
AU - Motta, Andrés
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was founded by the National Ministry of Education from Colombia. Additional resources were granted by the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. L. A. Ponguta's work was partially supported by the Jacobs Foundation and H. Yoshikawa's work was partly supported by funding from the New York University Abu Dhabi Research Institute to the Global TIES for Children Center. We are indebted to the center coordinators, teachers, and families who participated in this study. We specially thank the field coordinators (Tiffany Jimenez, Juliana Sánchez, Laura Rojas, Jimena Rozo, Maylee Montagut, Angélica Navia, and Carolina Alonso), data analysts (Tatiana Plata, Jorge Cuartas, Jesús Rodríguez) and the team of data collectors. We are grateful to the leadership of the Direction of Early Childhood from the National Ministry of Education; and the participation of the Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar.
Funding Information:
This work was founded by the National Ministry of Education from Colombia. Additional resources were granted by the World Bank and the Inter‐American Development Bank. L. A. Ponguta's work was partially supported by the Jacobs Foundation and H. Yoshikawa's work was partly supported by funding from the New York University Abu Dhabi Research Institute to the Global TIES for Children Center.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Authors. Child Development © 2021 Society for Research in Child Development.
PY - 2022/1/1
Y1 - 2022/1/1
N2 - National-level monitoring of quality of early childhood education (ECE) is key to achieving inclusive and equitable education. Most countries report structural quality while process characteristics are rarely observed at the national level. This study examined the associations between ECE and children's development in a middle-income country using data from a nationally representative sample of public centers serving Colombian children (N = 3163; M = 4.3 years, 50% girls; 42% Mestizo, 16% White, 15% Afro-Colombian, 4% Indigenous, 23% not reported). Descriptive findings evidenced low to moderate quality. Multilevel models showed several positive associations between structural and process quality and child outcomes. Results have implications for the existing literature and highlight the feasibility of quality monitoring in low- and middle-income countries.
AB - National-level monitoring of quality of early childhood education (ECE) is key to achieving inclusive and equitable education. Most countries report structural quality while process characteristics are rarely observed at the national level. This study examined the associations between ECE and children's development in a middle-income country using data from a nationally representative sample of public centers serving Colombian children (N = 3163; M = 4.3 years, 50% girls; 42% Mestizo, 16% White, 15% Afro-Colombian, 4% Indigenous, 23% not reported). Descriptive findings evidenced low to moderate quality. Multilevel models showed several positive associations between structural and process quality and child outcomes. Results have implications for the existing literature and highlight the feasibility of quality monitoring in low- and middle-income countries.
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U2 - 10.1111/cdev.13665
DO - 10.1111/cdev.13665
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85113999060
SN - 0009-3920
VL - 93
SP - 254
EP - 268
JO - Child development
JF - Child development
IS - 1
ER -