Infant-Toddler Program Quality Assessment (PQA) Form A*

Assessing the quality of care and education in programs serving the zero-to-three age group can be extremely challenging since very young children need intensive support and their needs change so rapidly. In this PQA, HighScope has solved that problem by including items and indicators that detail the specific caregiving, environmental, and planning practices essential to high-quality child care programs for infants and toddlers.

This assessment includes 25 items with detailed descriptive indicators in four key areas:

• Learning environment
• Schedules and routines
• Adult-child interaction
• Curriculum planning and child observation

*Our Infant-Toddler PQA is currently in Beta version as it goes through its second round of research.