Citation

Holloway SD, Reichhart-Erickson M. Early Child Res. Q. 1988; 3(1): 39-53.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1988, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/0885-2006(88)90028-2

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The relationship of day care quality to the activities of 4-year-old children during free play and their knowledge of social problem solving was investigated. The subjects were 55 children attending 15 day care centers and nursery school. Indicators of day care quality included quality of interaction with teachers, arrangement of the physical space, spaciousness of the environment, appropriateness and variety of the materials provided for play, quality of the outdoor area, group size, and child-teacher ratio. Relationships were found between these dimensions and children's absorption in solitary play and knowledge of social problem solving. Most of these relationships held up after the effects of social class were statistically removed.