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Test Bank for Planning and Administering Early Childhood Programs 11 th Edition Nancy K. Freeman Celia A. Decker John R. Decker Prepared by Katie Benson Answers At The End Of PDF 1 / 4

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Chapter 1: Overview of Early Care and Education and Program Administration 1

Chapter 2: Identifying the Program’s Core Values, Developing Its Vision

and Mission Statements, and Planning for Program Evaluation 4

Chapter 3: Understanding Regulations, Accreditation Criteria, and Other

Standards of Practice 8 Chapter 4: Policies and Procedures: Tools to Ensure Your Program’s Smooth Operation 13

Chapter 5: Recruiting, Hiring, Leading, and Managing Personnel 17

Chapter 6: Creating Quality Learning Environments 21

Chapter 7: Managing Your Program’s Finances 26

Chapter 8: Marketing Your Program of Early Care and Education 30

Chapter 9: Teaching and Learning the Children’s Program 33

Chapter 10: Providing Quality Nutrition and Creating a Healthy

and Safe Environment 37 Chapter 11: Child Assessment: An Essential Component of Quality Early Childhood Programming 41

Chapter 12: Working with Families and Communities 44

Chapter 13: Contributing to the Profession 48

Answer Key 51 2 / 4

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CHAPTER 1

OVERVIEW OF EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION

AND PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION

TEST ITEMS

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1.All of the following are factors influencing the growth of early childhood programs

except:

a.Growing appreciation for the contributions preschool can make to children’s development b.Increase in the number of employed mothers c.High levels of unemployment d.Increase in public’s awareness of the importance of the early years 2.Research indicates that potential benefits of high quality child care and education services

include:

a.Enhanced social, emotional, language, literacy, and mathematical development.b.Children in quality programs reach milestones of physical developmental more quickly.c.Both parents in more families are in the workforce.d.Teachers of young children can demand higher salaries.

3.The No Child Left Behind legislation:

a.Decreased public funding on early education.b.Required the development of Good Start Grow Smart early learning guidelines.c.Mandates a minimum level of education for any teacher working in a program of early care and education.d.Mandates that public schools offer educational services to all young children beginning at age three.

4.Early childhood is most usually defined as:

a.Birth through two years.b.Two through four years.c.Birth through five years.d.Birth through eight years.

5.The two most common types of child care are:

a.Centers and family child care.b.Business and military child care.c.Faith-based and secular child care.d.Preschool and school-age child care. 3 / 4

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6.A large family child care home is best described as:

a.A home that serves 2-3 unrelated children.b.A child care center that is furnished like a home.c.A home-based program that serves between 7 to 12 children.d.Several family child care homes that are part of a network of providers.

7.Informal care is defined as:

a.Programs that welcome drop-in children who do not attend on a regular basis.b.A network of unregulated “kith and kin” providers caring for children in their homes.c.An approach that focuses on casual clothing.d.A cooperative center-based program that employs parents and families as voluntary caregivers who contribute time and materials instead of paying tuition to support the center.

8.The demand for infant and toddler care:

a.Has declined steadily over the past decade.b.Is about the same as the demand for school-age care.c.Exceeds the supply due in part to the high cost of maintaining low ratios.d.Is easily supplied with affordable high quality programming to all families that want it.

9.The term inclusion refers to:

a.Full integration of children with disabilities into the community where they live, including child care centers.b.Placing children with disabilities in settings that serve children with similar disabilities.c.Integrating different cultures of children together in the same classroom.d.Providing occasional opportunities for typically developing children to play with children with disabilities.

10.Measures of structural quality include:

a.The architectural style of the child care facility.b.Whether or not the center will withstand hurricane force winds.c.Caregivers’ sensitivity, responsiveness, and ability to facilitate cognitive and language development.d.Group size, child-adult ratio, and teacher and administrator specialized education and training.

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