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[http://journals.sagepub.com/home/ero](http://journals.sagepub.com/home/ero)  \nA New Approach to Defining and Measuring Family Engagement in Early Childhood Education Programs  \nTerri J. Sabol  \nTeresa Eckrich Sommer  \nNorthwestern University  \nAmy Sanchez  \nUniversity of Chicago  \nAndrea Kinghorn Busby  \nNorthwestern University  \nAlmost every state-level Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) in the country includes family engagement as an indicator of early childhood education quality. Yet, most QRIS measure family engagement using a uniform, narrow set of parent involvement activities at the center. We propose an alternative approach that emphasizes a range of direct services for parents, including: (1) parenting classes, (2) family support services, (3) social capital activities, and (4) human capital services. In our proposed rating systems, states would assess how well centers address the highest ranked needs of families and employ evidence-based practices across one or more of the center-selected direct parent service categories. We explore the feasibility of this approach through a qualitative study (n = 14 centers) and case examples. We discuss how this new rating system could be used to monitor quality and as a tool for program improvement to support child development.  \nKeywords: child development, early childhood, parents and families, qualitative research  \nTwo-Thirds ofall four-year-old children in the United States attend early childhood education (ECE) programs, and this number is expected to rise in the coming years (U.S. Department of Education, 2017) . As ECE programs expand across the country, there is a growing recognition of the need to measure and improve quality across the diverse ECE landscape, including Head Start, state pre-kindergarten (prek), and community-based programs, to improve child outcomes. The major system that monitors center-based ECE programs in the United States is state-level Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS). This paper explores how to maximize the effectiveness of QRIS for promoting child outcomes by improving the conceptualization and measurement of family engagement, which is one of the most common measures of quality within QRIS.  \nGalvanized through the Race-to-the-Top Early Learning Challenge, QRIS attempt to improve the performance of individual programs by: (a) assessing ECE programs using a number of quality measures,(b) disseminating program ratings to the local public, and (c) offering improvement supports tied to programs’ rating performance. The guiding framework behind QRIS is that top-rated programs represent higher levels of quality, which should mean that higher ratings are associated with greater gains in children’s development and learning—a primary goal of early childhood  \neducation programs. Thus, as states and programs target and improve quality measures in QRIS, they should in turn better promote child outcomes.  \nStates typically create the rating component of QRIS by relying on research as well as the professional judgment and values of the many constituents to establish local buy-in. All QRIS across the country include measures of classroom quality (e.g., staff qualifications), and the majority of QRIS (88%) include a set of measures to assess family engagement. Although family engagement is highly valued by QRIS stakeholders (given that it is included in nearly every QRIS), the theoretical framework, evidence base, and measures are less developed compared to classroom quality indicators, often leaving states to make their own choices on how to actually measure and rate family engagement. The most common way QRIS measure family engagement is based on parent involvement in the center, such as whether parents volunteer, attend parent-teacher conferences, help fundraise at the center, or the ways in which centers promote involvement","cbCaitayachWak1a","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitayachWak1a","pdf",583323,12,"English","# Background and problem\n# Proposed approach to family engagement\n# Feasibility study and case examples\n# Implications for quality monitoring and improvement","[{\"question\":\"Why do current QRIS approaches to family engagement need improvement?\",\"answer\":\"They often rely on a uniform, narrow set of center-based parent involvement activities and provide limited evidence linking their definitions and measures to child well-being.\"},{\"question\":\"What services does the proposed family engagement approach emphasize?\",\"answer\":\"It emphasizes direct services for parents, including parenting classes, family support services, social capital activities, and human capital services.\"},{\"question\":\"How is the proposed approach evaluated in the paper?\",\"answer\":\"The paper explores feasibility through a qualitative study involving 14 centers and includes case examples.\"}]","A New Approach to Defining and Measuring Family Engagement in Early Childhood Education Programs | PDF",1792070111]