Family Affluence Scale (Version II)
Instruments
Family-Sensitive Caregiving and Family Engagement Working Meeting: Identifying and Measuring Common Core Elements
A summary of the proceedings of a meeting hosted by the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, in Washington, DC on June 10-11, 2010, for the purpose of providing an opportunity to build upon existing definitions of the concepts of family engagement and family-sensitive caregiving and to make progress towards identifying effective strategies for measuring these concepts
Meeting Summary
Head Start families sharing home language and literacy experiences
A study of the home literacy and language environments of a sample of households with children in Head Start, as well as a discussion of the value of the Family Literacy Survey parent-report in the collection of home environment data, based on data collected by 298 Head Start parents from an urban area on the East Coast
Reports & Papers
Healthy kids check: Is it evidence-based?
A review of evidence-based and consensus-based support for various components of the Healthy Kids Check, a preschool screening tool of the Australian Government’s Enhanced Primary Care Program, from 34 systematic reviews and guidelines published between 2000 and 2008
Literature Review
How measurement characteristics can affect ECERS-R and program funding
A study of the relationship between alternative scoring methods for the Early Childhood Environmental Rating Scale-Revised (ECERS-R) and program quality funding considerations, from a secondary analysis of data of over 250 classrooms from preschool observations in three separate studies
Reports & Papers
Identifying high-quality centre-based childcare using quantitative data-sets: What the numbers do and don't tell us
A study of the consistency and correspondence over time of three center based quality measures: the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale-Revised, the Infant-Toddler Environment Rating Scale, and Australia’s nationally administered Quality Improvement and Accreditation System, based on two sources of quantitative data collected over five years at 74 full-day child care centers in Australia
Reports & Papers
Identifying preschool children at risk of later reading difficulties: Evaluation of two emergent literacy screening tools
A study of the predictive validity of the Revised Get Ready to Read and the Individual Growth and Development Indicators screening tests with 176 preschool children in 21 preschools in North Florida
Reports & Papers
Increased implementation of emergent literacy screening in pre-kindergarten
A discussion of the role of early literacy assessment in preschool, an examination of key features of preschool literacy assessments, and a presentation of selected findings from the statewide use of a literacy screening tool
Reports & Papers
Individual differences in preschool children: Temperament or personality?
A validity study of M5-PreSchool measure of personality and its relationship to a measure of temperament traits in a sample of 122 preschool children from a variety of socioeconomic background levels in North Carolina
Reports & Papers
Individualized Classroom Assessment Scoring System
Instruments
The Individualized Classroom Assessment Scoring System (inCLASS): Preliminary reliability and validity of a system for observing preschoolers’ competence in classroom interactions
An examination of the psychometric properties of the Individualized Classroom Assessment Scoring System (inCLASS), an observation tool that targets children’s interactions in preschool classrooms with teachers, peers, and tasks, based on the use of the tool with 145 children, ages three through five, enrolled in fourty four classrooms in twenty different preschool programs in the central region of a mid-Atlantic state
Reports & Papers
Keeping it "R-E-A-L" with authentic assessment
An examination of 9 early childhood authentic assessment measures used to determine a young child's eligibility for special services and an overview of 27 related studies
Literature Review
Language Interaction Snapshot with End of Visit Ratings
Instruments
Measurement and population miss-fits: A case study on the importance of using appropriate measures to evaluate early childhood interventions
An investigation of the appropriate use of the Child Behavior Check List (CBCL) from over 1,640 Caucasian, African American, and Latino 4 year old English or Spanish speaking children in the Comprehensive Child Development Program
Reports & Papers
Measurement of physical activity in preschool children
An overview of the methods for measurement of physical activity in children of preschool age from articles detailing the measurement properties of direct
observational systems, accelerometry, pedometry, heart rate monitoring, and proxy reporting
Methods
Measuring early literacy skills: A latent variable investigation of the Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening for Preschool
An investigation of the psychometric properties of the Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening for Preschool (PALS-PreK) instrument, that includes an examination of gender invariance, with a split sample of 4,518 preschool children in Virginia
Methods
Meeting the challenges of diversity: Beliefs of Taiwanese preservice early childhood teachers
A validity study of a diversity beliefs instrument, an investigation of the relationship between, and predictors of, teachers' diversity beliefs in both personal and professional contexts, a study of the relationship between diversity beliefs and teachers' demographic backgrounds, school characteristics, and cross-cultural experiences, and a study of diversity training needs of teachers based on the questionnaire responses of 677 Early Childhood pre-service teachers in 6 universities or colleges in Taiwan
Reports & Papers
Misunderstood statistical assumptions undermine criticism of the National Early Literacy Panel's report
A response to methodological and statistical criticism by two authors of the Developing Early Literacy report by the National Early Literacy Panel
Other
Nebraska State Accountability-Mathematics
Instruments
NYSAN Program Quality Self-Assessment (QSA) tool survey report
A description of the NYSAN Program Quality Self-Assessment (QSA) tool, an instrument for the self-assessment of the quality of after school programs in New York State, and an examination of the quality of after school programs, based on a sample of 106 after school program providers assessed using the QSA tool
Reports & Papers
NYSAN Program Quality Self-Assessment (QSA) tool survey report, executive summary
A summary of a description of the NYSAN Program Quality Self-Assessment (QSA) tool, an instrument for the self-assessment of the quality of after school programs in New York State, and an examination of the quality of after school programs, based on a sample of 106 after school program providers assessed using the QSA tool
Executive Summary
Observational measures of quality in center-based early care and education programs
A discussion of the characteristics and purposes of center-based early care and education classroom quality observational measures
Fact Sheets & Briefs
The predictive utility of kindergarten screening for math difficulty
An examination of the reliability, validity, and predictive utility of three kindergarten screening measures of children at risk for math difficulty, based on data collected in September and May of kindergarten from 196 students in 5 schools in a metropolitan school district in the Southeast
Reports & Papers
Protecting young children: Identifying family substance use and risks in the home
A comparison of indicators of healthy child development for families who screened positive for substance use with those who did not on The Family Map, based on a sample of 1,105 families in 20 Head Start centers, and an evaluation of the parents' comfort and satisfaction with the screening and home visitation, based on data from parents at 6 of the centers
Reports & Papers
Quality indicators of inclusive early childhood programs/practices: A compilation of selected resources
A compendium of information on 21 assessment tools for the assessment of the quality of inclusive child care programs
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