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Child Trends, 2009
Measures assessing the quality of children's environments and interactions in nonparental care settings were developed originally for use in child care research and as self-assessment tools for practitioners. Within the last decade, these measurement tools have moved into the public policy arena, where they are now used to make programmatic…
Descriptors: Accountability, Child Care, Preschool Evaluation, Evaluation Criteria
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Scott-Little, Catherine; Brown, E. Glyn; Hooks, Laura McDonald; Marshall, Betty Jo – Young Children, 2008
Working with the South Carolina Department of Education, the authors surveyed prekindergarten and kindergarten teachers whose schools participated in a quality rating system to see what they did to get ready for the observation and what they thought of the evaluation process. The authors also asked them what they thought about the quality of their…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Evaluation Research, Kindergarten, Teaching Methods
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National Center for Education Research, 2009
Since 2002, the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) has funded more than 400 research grants through the National Center for Education Research. This document lists the publications that have resulted from these projects. Publications from IES grantees include articles intended for scientific audiences, as well as articles written for general…
Descriptors: Audiences, Grants, Educational Research, Publications
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Doig, Brian – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2005
The assessment of children in their years before school and their first years of school has been, traditionally, informal. Further, assessment of children's mathematical skills at this level has been infrequent compared to social, emotional and physical assessments. However, there are contexts where reliable, valid, standardised data from…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Item Response Theory, Mathematics Achievement, Preschool Children