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Parents’ and teachers’ perceptions of quality in Portuguese childcare classrooms

dc.contributor.authorBarros, Sílvia
dc.contributor.authorLeal, Teresa B.
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-17T15:24:31Z
dc.date.available2018-01-17T15:24:31Z
dc.date.issued2015-06
dc.description.abstractThe main goal of this study was to examine parents’ and teachers’ perceptions of quality in early childhood education for toddlers in Portugal. A total of 110 parents and 110 teachers participated in the study, rating the importance of specific quality criteria and assessing childcare classrooms, based on the Infant/Toddler Environment Rating Scale Parent Questionnaire (ITERS-RPQ) and on the Infant/Toddler Environment Rating Scale Teacher Questionnaire (ITERS-RTQ), respectively. The same quality items were used by external observers to evaluate the same classrooms with the Infant/Toddler Environment Rating Scale (ITERS-R; Harms et al. 2003). Results suggest that parents and teachers give high importance scores to the quality criteria included in the ITERS-R, substantiating the use of this instrument in Portugal. Although correlations were found between observers’ and parents’ ratings of quality, and between observers’ and teachers’ ratings of quality, results suggest that teachers and parents consider education and care in toddler classrooms to be substantially more adequate than the researchers observed.pt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10212-014-0235-4pt_PT
dc.identifier.issn0256-2928
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/10809
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherSpringerpt_PT
dc.relation.publisherversionhttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10212-014-0235-4pt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectChildcare qualitypt_PT
dc.subjectEarly childhood educationpt_PT
dc.subjectParents’ perceptionspt_PT
dc.subjectTeachers’ perceptionspt_PT
dc.subjectPortugalpt_PT
dc.titleParents’ and teachers’ perceptions of quality in Portuguese childcare classroomspt_PT
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.endPage226pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage209pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleEuropean Journal of Psychology of Educationpt_PT
oaire.citation.volume30pt_PT
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspt_PT
rcaap.typearticlept_PT

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