Business Administration Scale for Family Child Care (BAS)

Product Description

The Business Administration Scale for Family Child Care (BAS) is the first valid and reliable tool for measuring and improving the overall quality of business and professional practices in family child care settings. It is applicable for multiple uses, including program self-improvement, technical assistance and monitoring, training, research and evaluation, and public awareness. The BAS is designed to complement the widely used Family Child Care Environment Rating Scale–Revised (FCCERS-R).
When used together, they provide a comprehensive picture of the quality of the family child care learning environment and the business practices that support the program.
With the BAS, providers can easily set goals to incrementally improve business practices that will result in better communication with parents, financial stability, reduced risk in operating a home business, and compliance with legal requirements. Using a 7-point rating scale (inadequate to excellent), this easy-to-use assessment instrument measures:

Qualifications and Professional Development
Income and Benefits
Work Environment
Fiscal Management
Recordkeeping
Risk Management
Provider–Parent Communication
Community Resources
Marketing and Public Relations
Provider as Employer

Review

“This valuable book should be used by any organization interested in increasing the business skills of family child care providers in their community.”―Tom Copeland, consultant to the National Association for Family Child Care

“Using the Business Administration Scale for Family Child Care in Tennessee has provided us with a valuable, practical tool to support best practices in family child care and to inspire providers to seek continuous improvements.”―Lin Venable, Assistant Program Director, Tennessee Early Childhood Training Alliance

“This publication will help family child care providers succeed as small business owners and develop their parent policies and communications. The BASidentifies optimal business practices for college instructors, trainers, coaches, and mentors. And it fills in where other quality assessment instruments leave off, helping researchers and evaluators to include this underlying foundation of quality in family child care.” ―Kathy Modigliani, Family Child Care Project

Review

“This valuable book should be used by any organization interested in increasing the business skills of family child care providers in their community.”—Tom Copeland, consultant to the National Association for Family Child Care
“Using the Business Administration Scale for Family Child Care in Tennessee has provided us with a valuable, practical tool to support best practices in family child care and to inspire providers to seek continuous improvements.”—Lin Venable, Assistant Program Director, Tennessee Early Childhood Training Alliance
“This publication will help family child care providers succeed as small business owners and develop their parent policies and communications. The BASidentifies optimal business practices for college instructors, trainers, coaches, and mentors. And it fills in where other quality assessment instruments leave off, helping researchers and evaluators to include this underlying foundation of quality in family child care.” —Kathy Modigliani, Family Child Care Project

About the Author

Teri N. Talan is Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education and Director of Research and Public Policy for the McCormick Tribune Center for Early Childhood Leadership at National-Louis University in Wheeling, Illinois. Paula Jorde Bloom is the Michael W. Louis Endowed Chair of the McCormick Tribune Center for Early Childhood Leadership and Professor of Early Childhood Education at National-Louis University. They are the authors of the bestselling Program Administration Scale: Measuring Early Childhood Leadership and Management (PAS).