The TALIS Starting Strong 2024 content areas addressed in the framework include:

• Process quality
• Monitoring children’s development, well-being, and learning
• Professional beliefs about children’s development, well-being, and learning
• Self-efficacy
• Staff and leader demographic and education background
• Professional development
• Well-being
• Structural quality
• Pedagogical and administrative leadership
• Organizational climate and working conditions
• Stakeholder relations
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion in ECEC settings
• Approaches to comprehensive/continuous child support
• Fostering competent ECEC settings
• Digital technologies to support leaders and staff

The survey content areas are organized into four dimensions:

• Staff practices with children (specifically elements related to process quality)
  • Process quality
  • Approaches to monitoring and assessment
  • Professional beliefs about children’s development, well-being, and learning
  • Self-efficacy
• ECEC setting characteristics
  • The structural quality of the environment
  • Pedagogical and administrative leadership of the ECEC setting
  • Organizational climate and working conditions
  • Stakeholder relations
• Staff and leader characteristics
  • Demographic background
  • Formal, initial preparation for working with young children
  • Continuing professional development
  • Well-being
• Cross-cutting content areas that are linked to the three other dimensions and that apply across the various levels of the ECEC ecosystem
  • Diversity, equity, and inclusion in ECEC settings
  • Approaches to comprehensive and continuous support for children
  • Competent ECEC systems
  • Use of digital technology to support ECEC staff and leaders