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Child Care for Low-Income Families: Directions for Research Summary of A Workshop (1995) / Chapter Skim
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Approaches to Data Collection
Pages 19-22

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... to generate useful answers to contemporary questions about child care. Participants agreed on the value of encouraging research that employs different methodologies short- anc]
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... care quality (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 19951. Another participant suggested studying the differences between communities that vary in their supply of high-quality child care for such outcomes as poverty rates, welfare receipt, ant!
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... Encouraging interdisciplinary research is one means of bringing multiple vantage points to bear on chilcl care research; major strides in this area-notably between psychologists ancT economists-have revealed both the opportunities and tensions that characterize efforts to bridge disciplines. Participants agreed that a central challenge for the future is to identify effective and enduring mechanisms for fostering integrative research on chilc]
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