Measuring the Implementation and Cost of High Quality Early Care and Education

This project snapshot provides key background and reference information about the project. It provides an overview of the project as a whole including the purpose of the ICHQ measures, the key tasks and products, and who can use the ICHQ measures in the future. The key tasks of the project include consultations with a technical expert panel, producing a literature review, developing a conceptual framework, conducting a multi-case study of ECE centers to develop measures of implementation and cost, pursuing a field test to test and validate the measures, and creating a User’s Guide to support collection, construction, and use of the measures.