Lemay, Lise; Lemire, Julie; Bigras, Nathalie; Bouchard, Caroline; Paquette, Alexandra et Laverdière, Karine
(2023).
« Quality of interactions offered to infants, toddlers and preschoolers in home-based childcares: an exploratory study », dans 31 st EECERA annual conference proccedings: Book of abstracts (31 st EECERA annual conference, Lisbonne, Portugal, 31 août 2023)
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This study explores the variation in quality of interactions offered to infants, toddlers and preschoolers in home-based childcare (HBC). While high quality interactions promote children's development, the quality levels offered to 0–3-year-olds appear lower then those offered to groups of children aged 3-5 years (Lahiti, 2015; Vermeer, 2016). Yet, little is known about the nature of quality of interactions in HBC, a multiage context (Ang et al., 2016) . Quality of interactions is conceptualized with the Teaching through framework (Hamre et al., 2013) about important interactions for children’s development and learning. This quantitative study concerns 10 HBC in Montreal (Quebec, Canada). Interactions in each childcare were videotaped for 3 hours during a single visit and were later scored using the CLASS tool. Observers completed 6 observation cycles, alternating between versions of the tool - Infant, Toddler, PreK. All providers and the children’s parents were informed about the project and signed a consent form. T-test showed significantly lower levels of quality on the CLASS Infant as compared with the CLASS Pre-K (t(9)= -3.93, p = .003), as well as
significantly lower levels of quality on the CLASS Toddler as compared with the CLASS Pre-K (t(9)= -3.68, p = .005). The scores of the CLASS Infant and Toddler were not significantly different. Providers' training should address even more interactions that support infant and toddler’ development, the multiage context, as well as dimensions related to educational support. Quality monitoring
systems should target quality of interactions offer to infants and toddlers, especially in HBC.
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