Supporting family child care and quality improvement: findings from an exploratory survey of Illinois child care resource and referral agency staff

International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy

Table 7 Training needs and level of education

	High education: BA or higher	Low education: less than BA	p	Grad course work (n = 44)	No grad course work (n = 28)	p	ECE (n = 32)	No ECE (n = 38)	p	High education; ECE (n = 22)	High education; Not ECE (n = 19)	Low education; ECE (n = 9)	Low education; Not ECE (n = 19)	p
Areas of training
Child development	0.36	0.50		0.34	0.56	*	0.28	0.53	*	0.15	0.60	0.52	0.46	**
School-age development	0.54	0.67		0.52	0.71		0.47	0.68	+	0.36	0.74	0.67	0.63	+
Developing a business	0.66	0.70		0.64	0.75		0.63	0.71		0.59	0.74	0.67	0.68
Organization and case management	0.39	0.60	+	0.41	0.57		0.38	0.53		0.32	0.47	0.56	0.58
Home visiting/consultation	0.49	0.72	*	0.51	0.68	+	0.53	0.61		0.46	0.53	0.78	0.68
Listening and communication skills	0.26	0.45	+	0.26	0.45	+	0.30	0.34		0.30	0.21	0.33	0.47
Working with families	0.49	0.78	***	0.49	0.79	***	0.55	0.64		0.48	0.50	0.78	0.79	*
Understanding family child care	0.59	0.60		0.52	0.68		0.56	0.61		0.55	0.63	0.67	0.58
Adult learning theory	0.29	0.50	+	0.30	0.50	+	0.28	0.45		0.23	0.37	0.44	0.53

Differences between groups: + significant at p ≤ .10; * significant at p ≤ .05; ** significant at p ≤ .01; *** significant at p ≤ .001