Program Administration Scale (PAS)

The Program Administration Scale is designed to measure and improve the leadership and management practices of centre-based programs. In this third edition, the authors share updated information supporting the reliability and validity of the instrument and make key revisions.

Applause! The authors have done a great job of creating an objective instrument based on concrete criteria."—Gwen Morgan, Senior Fellow for Child Care Policy, Wheelock College

"What a wonderful tool for discovering strengths as well as providing the pathway for improvement!"—Kay Albrecht, Senior Partner, Innovations in Early Childhood Education

"The PAS is an outstanding coaching tool for our state administrator credential. Our administrators now have a common language and shared focus for program improvement. The PAS helps directors become systems thinkers. This is the missing piece to increasing quality!"—Diana Courson, Associate Director, Arkansas State University Childhood Services

"I found the PAS to be very comprehensive and useful in alerting me to documentation and other areas of administration that I needed to change. It is a good precursor tool to NAEYC Accreditation."—Linda Jo Platt, Director, Community Nursery School

"Measuring quality on a 7-point scale provides for tiny steps that should encourage people to keep improving. I love this tool."—Bee Jay Ciszek, Principal, Cardinal Bernardin Early Childhood Center

Teri N. Talan is the Michael W. Louis Endowed Chair and Senior Policy Advisor at the McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership and a professor at the National Louis University.

Jill M. Bella is Director of Professional Learning at the McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership.

The late Paula Jorde Bloom was the founder of the McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership and professor emerita at the National Louis University.