Appendix B: Case Selection Criteria

Appendix B: Case Selection Criteria

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Appendix B: Case Selection Criteria
Case selection criteria and potential data sources
Criteria

Variation sought

Potential data sources

Selection criteria
Adoption and implementation • Whether incentives and regulatory
• Publicly available documents related to
mechanisms are linked to
case’s competencies
of competency framework
competencies (for example, resources • QRIS standards and policies, ECE
for professional development or quality
credential requirements, other relevant
improvement licensures and
policies within an associated site’s ECE
certifications)
system
Education and professional
development on
competencies

• Extent to which competencies are
reflected in curricula and credentialing
of I/T education, training, and PD

Assessment of competencies • Nature, source, and frequency of
assessments, including links to
credentialing

• ECE curricula/pathway summaries
• Credential requirements
• Indicators of connection to higher
education
• CCR&R or FCC network training
materials
• Publicly available documents related to
assessment approaches, policies, and
procedures

Source/generation of the
framework

• Whether the framework was developed • Publicly available documents with
information on the competency
for use in a specific site/by the site
framework’s authorship and target
using the framework, or if the
audiences
framework was developed centrally for
use across sites

Characteristics of the
framework

• Whether specifically for I/T, or ECE
teachers/caregivers more broadly;
whether appropriate for use with FCC
settings

Innovation of implementation • Unique aspects of implementation (for
example, dissemination, assessment,
of assessment approach
or approaches to integration in
education and professional
development)

• Publicly available documents related to
case’s competency framework

• Full range of sources associated with
other selection criteria

Context
Contextual influences within
the site[s] associated with
cases

a Available

• Availability of I/T jobs, wage rates, and • Publicly available data relevant to the
I/T workforce, including the Center for
other sector-specific employment
the Study of Child Care Employment’s
indicators
Early Childhood Workforce Indexa
• Presence of EHS and aspects of CCDF
• State CCDF plans
plans in the sites(s)
• Head Start Program Information Report
(information on EHS grantees)

at https://cscce.berkeley.edu/topic/early-childhood-workforce-index/

QRIS = Quality Rating and Improvement System; CCR&R = Child care resource and referral agency; ECE = early
care and education; FCC = family child care; EHS = Early Head Start

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