The Child Development Program Evaluation Scale (CDPES) is actually two scales in one, a licensing scale and a quality scale. Licensing predictor items have been found to predict overall compliance of child day care centers with state regulations in four states. Quality scale items have been found to predict the overall quality of child day care centers. Taken together, the two scales measure the following child development program areas: administration, environmental safety, curriculum, health, nutrition, social services, and parental involvement. This document provides the complete CDPES and includes directions for gathering data on each scale item and for scoring the data. Provided also is the Caregiver Observation Form and Scale, an instrument for recording behaviors of caregivers interacting with children in a classroom setting. Forms and criteria for recording caregiver observations are included as well. Practitioners are cautioned against using the indicator checklist methodology before they possess a full year of data collected on a comprehensive compliance instrument. (RH)