Research Institute for Key Indicators Data Laboratory

Affiliated with the Penn State University Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center

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Research Repository

Articles and Book Chapters:

New Integrated Program Monitoring System App combining structural quality and process quality into one application, The Child Care and Early Education (CCEE) Heart Monitor and the Integrated Regulatory Framework (IRF) Math Model:

Professional Development and Quality Initiatives:

Child Welfare Services:

Chapters in Books and Curriculum:

Books, Monographs, Manuals, Guides, Courses, Proposals:

Professional Development, Training, Coaching, Mentoring Approaches:

ebooks – for additional information regarding these ebooks and other ebooks authored by Dr Fiene, please go to the following:

Research Papers:

Research Reports, Research Briefs:

Instruments, Tools, Apps, Standards, and Parental Guides:

Technical Research Notes and Abstracts, Anthologies, New Work: Draft Manuscripts, In-Press, and Collections:

The following technical research notes and abstracts combine the above notes & abstracts into themes that were used for different audiences.  Obviously there will be some redundancy from the notes listed above as well as the introduction of new papers, abstracts, data, and research notes:

To continue with the anthology theme, the following are respective anthologies combining many of the above publications into book length series which will help in focusing more closely on specific areas of theory and research (The ECPQIM/LMS Series):

The Presto Series Hard Copy Books:

Bookemon ebook Certified Imprint Series:

Structural Quality and Process Quality Series:

RCS, UCM, and TRC Anthologies:

Here is an interview conducted with AI Bard that provides some interesting insights into designing and developing a new Utopian Artificial Intelligence community:

Walden IV: An Artificial Intelligence Utopia:

Research Themes (these are papers and research notes that fit a particular research theme, so they are grouped together for the convenience of the reader.  These are some of the major research themes that have emerged over the past 50 years in my research related to regulatory compliance and developmental psychology/cognitive science):

Theory of Regulatory Compliance:

Effectiveness/Efficiency Relationship:

Structural and Process Quality Continuum:

UCM Abstracts:

Regulatory Compliance Scale (RCS):

Regulatory Compliance Models:

Child Care and Early Education Heart Monitor (CCEEHM):

Dichotomization of Data Method for Licensing:

Spatial Acquisition Device (SpAD) + Four States of Space Theory:

4SST Paper Series:

The development of a Contact Hours (CH) Metric replacing adult child ratio and group size regulatory compliance was proposed as an alternative in 1979 as part of the FIDCR Appropriateness Monitoring System.  The relevant papers are listed here with their application to

COVID19 monitoring as well as monitoring for illness and injuries in child care centers:

CH+ Rebranding:

The Regulatory Compliance/Early Childhood Program Quality Improvement & Indicator Model (ECPQIM) is composed of the following key system elements: Regulatory Compliance (CI/RC), Program Quality or Quality Initiatives (PQ), Risk Assessment Rules (RAM), Key Indicator Rules (KIM), Professional Development Initiatives (PD), and Outcome (O) Results.  Examples of each are provided below:

The Big Five + One:

Projects Under Development:

TRC++:

Selected Summary Reports generated through the use of Google’s AI: Gemini regarding the theory of regulatory compliance and differential monitoring.  These are interesting summaries of the research literature in licensing:

Gemini New (Summaries and Enhancements of Original Works):

Google’s AI Lab Experiments NotebookLM Deep Dive:

Theory of Regulatory Compliance:

Five Theories of Regulatory Compliance (Gemini + NotebookLM):

Contact Hours Metric

Spatial Acquisition Device and Theory of Space:

Uncertainty-Certainty Matrix UCM:

Regulatory Compliance Scale:

Rethinking Regulatory Compliance:

The 2025 Pubs and Presentations Summarized by NotebookLM:

Selected NotebookLM Critiques of the Theory of Regulatory Compliance (TRC), Child Care Early Education Heart Monitor (CCEEHM), Regulatory Compliance Scale (RCS), Uncertainty-Certainty Matrix (UCM), and the Contact Hour (CH) Metric:

Selected Other reports, papers, publications dealing with the theory and associated approaches and methodologies:

Latest Research for dissemination and distribution:

Selected Ebooks Available Online:

Selected Key Publications from 2025-26:

Other Presentations and Background Materials:

The Psychology of Compliance Papers, Abstracts, Research Notes:

Evolution of the Fiene Coefficient:

Apps:

Unified Theory of Regulatory Compliance:

Final UTRC CH+:

Unified Theory Series:

OCD/UCM: