Environmental ratings and children's social behavior: implications for the assessment of day care quality.
Social interactions of four-year-olds in proprietary day care centers with high and low environmental ratings were compared. No clear-cut association between the ratings and social behavior was found. Alternative explanations for the complex pattern of results are suggested, and implications for the assessment of day care quality are offered.
Bjorkman
Sylvia
S
Pitt County Schools.
Poteat
G Michael
GM
East Carolina University.
Snow
Charles W
CW
East Carolina University.
D002656:Child Day Care Centers / Q000592:standards*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D010379:Peer Group; D010553:Personality Development; D012737:Sex Factors; D012919:Social Behavior; D012931:Social Environment