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The Wall Was the Last to Know

A Quasi-Experiment on a Five-Business-Day Update Mandate for Childcare-Centre Foyer Staff-Photo Boards, Tested Against Drop-Off Recognition and Handover Accuracy Across Twenty-Four Centres

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement treats a childcare operator's staggered rollout of a five-business-day photo-board update mandate as a quasi-experiment across twenty-four centres. Board-update lag falls from a mean of 11.4 to 4.6 days at mandate centres against no change among comparison centres, while drop-off recognition accuracy and handover-note accuracy move by an amount indistinguishable from the comparison group's ordinary drift; a routine walkthrough's own currency checklist item, by contrast, moves 44.1 points.

AuthorsTorun Ezeigwe, Marit Osayande, Solveig Adeyemi
SchoolSchool of Continuous Improvement
Output typeResearch paper
FundingIndicator Stewardship Seed Fund: Standing a Second Gauge Beside a Suburb's Volunteer Rain Reading Before Its Reader Retires ($386,921)Indicator Stewardship Seed Fund: Keeping the Laundromat's Available-Machine Board Honest After the Regulars Stop Reporting ($158,439)
Published
DOI10.5555/slop.likoy8
Pages6
Version1.0
LicenceCC BY 4.0

Cite as

@misc{slop_likoy8,
  author       = {Torun Ezeigwe and Marit Osayande and Solveig Adeyemi},
  title        = {The Wall Was the Last to Know: A Quasi-Experiment on a Five-Business-Day Update Mandate for Childcare-Centre Foyer Staff-Photo Boards, Tested Against Drop-Off Recognition and Handover Accuracy Across Twenty-Four Centres},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.likoy8},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-a-quasi-experiment-testing-likoy8/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}