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The Instrument Based Program Monitoring Information System (IPM) and the Indicator Checklist (IC) are two tools for the state management of child day care services. A methodology for monitoring interviews and site visits to child day care programs is described. An integral feature of IPM is a system of assigning weights to the questions or items so that scores reflect the relative importance of state regulations. An Indicator Checklist is a questionnaire or checklist that contains selected, predictive items from a longer, comprehensive instrument that a state uses to monitor child day care providers' conformance to state day care regulations. An Indicator Checklist contains items that have been determined to be most effective in discriminating between providers that typically receive high overall scores on the comprehensive instrument and providers that typically receive low overall scores.
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Fiene, R., Nixon, M. The Instrument Based Program Monitoring Information System and the Indicator Checklist for child care. Child Youth Care Forum 14, 198–214 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01113748
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