Desciption:
Decision makers need access to the data and results of studies that have been gathered widely from respected research sources and weighed in a fair and open manner. Objective reviews of research literature can help to reduce personal bias in decision making by focusing attention beyond opinion-confirming evidence.
For this reason the Canadian Centre for Knowledge Mobilisation (CCKM) created an easy-to-use Research Guide that summarises the results of 66 research reports in words and in numbers. Overall, the research examined the relationship of seven factors of child care to children's cognitive, language, and behavioural development. The Research Guide is meant to help parents, teachers, and policy makers find out what the research says. The Research Guide is also meant to help researchers find out what has already been studied, how it has been studied, and where the gaps can be found and filled with new research. In the end, readers can add the knowledge of accumulated research findings to other factors that will influence their decisions about child care. Why rely on just one opinion or one study for such important decisions?
The Research Guide for Child Care Decision Making was created by CCKM with funding from the Canadian Council on Learning and Research Works! for child literacy, a Community-University Research Alliance of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. These organisations bear no responsibility for design or content of CCKM's Research Guide. It is important to know that CCKM does not represent any child care agency or interest group, or governmental, non-governmental, or arm-length governmental organisation advocating for or against non-parental child care.