Testing for Dosage-Outcome Associations in Early Care and Education

Testing for Dosage-Outcome Associations in Early Care and Education

Published: Jun 07, 2016
Publisher: In Quality Thresholds, Features, and Dosage in Early Care and Education: Secondary Data Analyses of Child Outcomes, edited by Margaret Burchinal, Martha Zaslow, and Louisa Tarullo. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, vol. 81, issue 2

Download

Associated Project

Child Care and Early Education Quality Features, Thresholds, and Dosage and Child Outcomes

Time frame: 2009-2014

Prepared for:

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families

Authors

Margaret Burchinal

Anamarie Auger

Hsiao-Chuan Tien

Andrew Mashburn

Ellen Peisner-Feinberg

Elizabeth W. Cavadel

Martha Zaslow

Louisa Tarullo

In this chapter, we turn to the question of whether there is evidence of an association between children's development and the quantity or dosage of ECE across several large studies. As follow-up to the results summarized in the literature review, it is important to control adequately for selection effects in studying effects of dosage. There is also a need to examine different measures of dosage to see if consistent patterns of findings emerge across different measurement approaches. Accordingly, in this chapter, we will summarize analyses by using more rigorous approaches to controlling for selection than those used in previous research and will adopt several approaches to operationalizing dosage. Again, we are seeking replicated findings, as indicated in this section by similar significant findings across projects in analyses of dosage.

Efficiency Meets Impact.
That's Progress Together.

To solve their most pressing challenges, organizations turn to Mathematica for deeply integrated expertise. We bring together subject matter and policy experts, data scientists, methodologists, and technologists who work across topics and sectors to help our partners design, improve, and scale evidence-based solutions.

Work With Us