Measuring child-staff ratios in child care centers: Balancing effort and representativeness

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 267-279

  Le, Vi Nhuan ^a   Perlman, Michal ^b   Zellman, Gail L ^a   Hamilton, Laura S ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Child staff ratios; Observation; Representativeness

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747832436     PISSN: 08852006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2006.07.002     Document Type: Article

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