Criteria voor kwaliteit van kinderopvang: Visies van sleutelfiguren

Abstract

In a national survey, child care centre administrators, caregivers, parents and child care experts were asked to (a) rate the importance of 22 structural and 15 process quality indicators for inclusion in an instrument assessing quality of centre day-care, (b) list the five most important indicators per category (structural vs. process quality), and (c) rate the importance of all quality indicators for younger versus older children. The results show that respondents in all four stakeholder groups agreed on the importance of the quality indicators that were listed in the survey. Differences between stakeholder groups were observed only when respondents were asked to prioritise quality indicators by type. Finally, respondents emphasized different quality indicators for child care of younger (0-2) versus older children (2-4 years). The results of this survey provide support for the quality instrument that is currently being validated.