2004 Statewide Household Child Care Survey
Chase, Richard A., 2004
St. Paul, MN: Wilder Research Center
Instruments
An action plan: Assessing school readiness in Ventura County
Thompson, Lisa, March 2004
Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families, and Communities.
A series of recommendations for establishing a school readiness assessment measure in Ventura County, California, and a survey of school administrators and teachers to determine existing school readiness assessment practices and future preferences for the selection of a measurement
Reports & Papers
Adjustment Scales for Preschool Intervention: Extending validity and relevance across multiple perspectives
Bulotsky-Shearer, Rebecca, 2004
Psychology in the Schools, 41(7), 725-736
Two studies evaluating the behavioral and emotional difficulties of Head Start preschool children, and assessing the reliability and concurrent validity of the Adjustment Scales for Preschool Intervention (ASPI)
Reports & Papers
After-School Activity Observation Instrument
Vandell, Deborah L., February, 2004
In The Study of Promising After-School Programs: Descriptive report of the promising programs. Madison: Wisconsin Center for Education Research.
Instruments
The After-School Initiative's Toolkit for Evaluating Positive Youth Development
Colorado Trust, 2004
Denver, CO: Colorado Trust.
Instruments
Alphabet Letter Recognition Inventory
Florida Institute of Education, 2004
In Alphabet Letter Recognition Inventory: Administration manual. Jacksonville: Florida Institute of Education
Instruments
Assessing school readiness: Validity and bias in preschool and kindergarten teachers' ratings
Mashburn, Andrew J., December 2004
Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 23(4), 16-30
An examination of how preschool and kindergarten teachers' rate their students in terms of school readiness, academic skills, and communication skills and a comparison of these ratings with direct assessments of the children's skills
Reports & Papers
Assessment of Afterschool Program Practice Tool--Research Version
Massachusetts. Department of Education, 2004
Boston: Massachusetts, Department of Education
Instruments
Australian Early Development Index
AEDI Partnership Team, 2004
Parkville, Victoria, Australia: AEDI National Support Centre [Primary source]
Instruments
Behavior Assessment System for Children (2nd ed.)
Reynolds, Cecil R., 2004
Circle Pines, MN: American Guidance Service
Instruments
CCHP Health and Safety Checklist (Rev. ed.)
California Childcare Health Program, 2004
San Francisco: University of California, San Francisco, Department of Family Health Care Nursing
Instruments
Chaos, culture, and covariance structures: A dynamic systems view of children's experiences at home
Bradley, Robert H., 2004
Parenting: Science and Practice, 4(2-3), 243-257
A perspective on how to construct, evaluate, and use measures designed to assess home environments, with attention paid to the importance of establishing relations between indicators used in home environment measures and measures of child well-being
Other
Child Care Center Questionnaire: Spring 2004
Education Development Center. Center for Children and Families, 2004
Unpublished instrument, Education Development Center, Center for Children and Families, Newton, MA
Instruments
Child Social Preference Scale
Coplan, Robert J., March 2004
Developmental Psychology, 40(2), 244-258
Instruments
The Classroom Assessment Scoring System: Findings from the prekindergarten year
La Paro, Karen M., 2004
Elementary School Journal, 104(5), 409-426
An observational study evaluating the reliability and validity of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS), an instrument designed to evaluate prekindergarten classroom quality focusing on emotional and instructional classroom elements
Reports & Papers
Classroom Observation System: Fifth Grade
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2004
COS qualitative scales and reliabilities observational ratings of the fifth grade classroom (Child Care Data Report 571). Research Triangle Park, NC: RTI International
Instruments
Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals Preschool (2nd ed.)
Wiig, Elisabeth H., 2004
San Antonio, TX: Harcourt Assessment
Instruments
Construction and evaluation of a number sense test with Head Start children
Malofeeva, Elena, 2004
Journal of Educational Psychology, 96(4), 648-659
A study to determine the reliability and validity of the Number Sense Test, an assessment of mathematical skills designed for preschool aged children
Reports & Papers
Early childhood assessments and family literacy
Johnston, Peter H., 2004
In The handbook of family literacy (pp. 503-524). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
A discussion of the current issues related to accountability testing and the assessment of young children, as well as the potential impact of newly adopted assessment legislation on children and families
Other
The Early Childhood Classroom Observation Measure
Stipek, Deborah J., 2004
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 19(3), 375-397
Instruments
Early childhood measures profiles
Child Trends, 2004
Washington, DC: Child Trends.
A profile of instruments used to measure developmental domains in early childhood, including language, literacy, math, approaches to learning, ongoing observational measures, general cognitive measures, social-emotional measures, and measures used in Early Head Start analyses
Other
Early Literacy Observation Tool
Grehan, Anna, 2004
Memphis, TN: University of Memphis, Center for Research in Educational Policy
Instruments
The EC-HOME across five national data sets in the 3rd to 5th year of life
Leventhal, Tama, 2004
Parenting: Science and Practice, 4(2-3), 161-188
An analysis of the reliability and validity of newly developed subscales of the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment Early Childhood (EC) HOME using data from five large scale national studies
Reports & Papers
The Evaluation Data Coordination Project: Common constructs and measures across nine ACF studies and other key data collection efforts
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2004
Washington, DC: Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.
A presentation of the options documents for the Evaluation Data Coordination Project that was designed to develop common measures of constructs and reporting formats for nine evaluation projects
Other
Examining the psychometric properties of the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale-Revised (ECERS-R)
Perlman, Michal, 2004
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 19(3), 398-412
An investigation of the psychometric properties of the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale - Revised (ECERS-R), which replicates the findings of a 1994 evaluation of the original ECERS
Reports & Papers