40th Anniversary of the Theory of Regulatory Compliance, Differential Monitoring, Key Indicators, and Risk Assessment Presentation in Alberta Canada

It is coming up next month, August 15th, for the 40th anniversary of the presentation in Alberta Canada of the Theory of Regulatory Compliance. In that presentation I shared the theory and its implications for program monitoring: differential monitoring, key indicators and risk assessment. Attached here is the presentation and slides I used back in 1984. I apologize in advance for the quality of the manuscript and presentation, but this was prior to word processing and powerpoint slides. This manuscript was typed on an IBM Selectric and the slides were the old fashion overhead slides.

This presentation was then split into two journal articles the following year (1985) in which the theory of regulatory compliance was published in the New England Journal of Human Services journal and the differential monitoring, key indicators and risk assessment methodologies were published in the Child Care Quarterly journal.

Over the past 40 years, the theory and methodology have generated a great deal of research interest and have impacted the early care and education field in many ways by introducing substantial regulatory compliance as an important change to licensing decision making and the use of abbreviated inspections in doing licensing reviews.