Quality in early childhood care and education settings: A compendium of measures
Profiles of instruments designed to measure the quality of early care and education settings, including information on instrument program target age and setting, purpose, administration, key constructs and scoring, and reliability and validity
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Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-1999 (ECLS-K): Psychometric report for the eighth grade
A description of the design of the assessments used in the spring 2007 data collection of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study to measure cognitive and social development of children in the eighth grade
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Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B): Preschool-kindergarten 2007 psychometric report
A description of the design of the assessments and methods of analysis used in the data collection of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort to measure cognitive and social development of children in their transition to kindergarten
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Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (ECLS-K): Eighth-grade methodology report
A description of the methodology and surveys used to report on the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class (ECLS-K) of 1998-99, with a focus on sample design and weighting, data collection methods, response rate calculations, and nonresponse bias analyses
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A review of methods and instruments used in state and local school readiness evaluations
A review of methods and instruments used to measure child outcomes in state and local school readiness initiatives
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Improving early education programs through data-based decision making
A discussion of five methods to evaluate the effectiveness of state-funded preschool programs
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Early childhood assessment: Why, what, and how?
A discussion of developmental outcomes for children from birth to age five and a review of instruments used in developmental assessment
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Measurement tools for evaluating out-of-school time programs: An evaluation resource
A description of instruments used to measure quality outcomes for after school child care programs
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Measurement tools for evaluating out-of-school time programs: An evaluation resource
An updated and expanded table of instruments used to evaluate out-of-school time child care programs and participants
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Understanding and choosing assessments and developmental screeners for young children ages 3-5: Profiles of selected measures: Final report
A compendium of assessments and developmental screeners for preschool-age children, with profiles of their characteristics, reliability, and validity
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Measuring youth program quality: A guide to assessment tools
A guide to observational instruments for measuring out-of-school time program quality, including the instruments' purpose, structure, content, and technical properties
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Accountability and program evaluation in early education
A discussion of research design options for the measurement of the outcomes of early education programs
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An overview of Markov Chain Methods for the study of stage-sequential developmental processes
An overview of selected statistical methodologies for the study of stage-sequential development, using as an example the reading proficiency of children above and below the poverty line
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The price of school readiness: A tool for estimating the cost of universal preschool in the states
A model designed to estimate the cost of a state-based, voluntary, universal prekindergarten program by combining the direct service and indirect costs associated with quality early childhood education, in order to approximate the annual total cost of program delivery
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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
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Design phase of the National Study of Child Care Supply and Demand (NSCCSD): Cognitive interview findings report for home-based provider questionnaire
A discussion of the methodology of the design and content of a questionnaire to survey home-based child care providers for their participation in the assessment of the national supply of child care
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Design for Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Survey: Final design report
A discussion of options and suggestions for the design of an ongoing survey of Migrant and Seasonal Head Start programs, staff, families, and children, including considerations for sampling, site outreach, instrumentation, data collection, and data analyses
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Paths to QUALITY: A child care quality rating & improvement system for Indiana: Evaluation methods and measures
A description of the methodology and measures used in the evaluation of Paths to QUALITY, the quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) in Indiana, with a focus on data collection and quality and outcome measures
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National Household Education Surveys Program of 2007: Methodology report
A description of the methodology and surveys used in the National Household Education Surveys Program in 2007, with a focus on questionnaire and sample design, data collection methods, response rate calculations, and nonresponse bias analyses
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Design phase of the National Study of Child Care Supply and Demand (NSCCSD): Final recommendations for the center-based provider questionnaire
Recommendations for the improvement of the design and content of a survey instrument for the assessment of the national supply of center-based child care services
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Methodologies to evaluate early childhood development programs
A discussion of methodological considerations involved in evaluating the impacts of early childhood development programs
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Measuring youth program quality: A guide to assessment tools
A guide comparing the purpose, structure, content and technical properties of tools to assess youth program quality
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Design phase of the National Study of Child Care Supply and Demand (NSCCSD): Final recommendations for the home-based provider questionnaire
Recommendations for the improvement of the design and content of a survey instrument for the assessment of the national supply of home-based child care services, including comments of changes to the actual survey
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Design phase of the National Study of Child Care Supply and Demand (NSCCSD): Final recommendations for the demand questionnaire
Recommendations for the improvement of the design and content of a survey instrument for the assessment of the parents' demand for child care services across the United States
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A guide to market rate surveys for CCDF Tribal entities
A guide to designing and implementing market rate surveys for American Indian and Alaskan Native Child Care and Development Fund grantees
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