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Direct linkCourtney Reim – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this exploratory descriptive research was to examine what Association Montessori Internationale (AMI) certified Montessori teachers (MTs) for students ages 3-6 years in the United States reported regarding scientific observation (SO) as a disposition and as a disposition in action (DIA) to better understand MTs' application of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Montessori Schools, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Earlene Warren-Fernandez – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study examined the quality of pre-K educational programs in New York City. I identified how program quality relates to student and teacher variables. The study used NYC Department of Education public ECERS-R data to measure program quality. I examined and analyzed to determine their influence on program quality. The independent variables are…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Evaluation Methods, Educational Quality, Preschool Evaluation
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Download full textLoredana Stan; Dorin Opri? – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2024
The present study started from the need to analyze and refund some essential aspects regarding preschoolers' self-assessment. The research was conducted on the basis of an online survey to which teachers working in pre-school education in Romania responded. The analysis of the research data was carried out through basic statistical indicators, and…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Education, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
Christina Weiland; Rebecca Unterman; Susan Dynarski; Rachel Abenavoli; Howard Bloom; Breno Braga; Anne-Marie Faria; Erica Greenberg; Brian A. Jacob; Jane Arnold Lincove; Karen Manship; Meghan McCormick; Luke Miratrix; Tomás E. Monarrez; Pamela Morris-Perez; Anna Shapiro; Jon Valant; Lindsay Weixler – Grantee Submission, 2024
Lottery-based identification strategies offer potential for generating the next generation of evidence on U.S. early education programs. The authors' collaborative network of five research teams applying this design in early education settings and methods experts has identified six challenges that need to be carefully considered in this next…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Admission (School)
Christina Weiland; Rebecca Unterman; Susan Dynarski; Rachel Abenavoli; Howard Bloom; Breno Braga; Anne-Marie Faria; Erica Greenberg; Brian A. Jacob; Jane Arnold Lincove; Karen Manship; Meghan McCormick; Luke Miratrix; Tomás E. Monarrez; Pamela Morris-Perez; Anna Shapiro; Jon Valant; Lindsay Weixler – AERA Open, 2024
Lottery-based identification strategies offer potential for generating the next generation of evidence on U.S. early education programs. The authors' collaborative network of five research teams applying this design in early education settings and methods experts has identified six challenges that need to be carefully considered in this next…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Admission (School)
Phillips, Alicia; Fenech, Marianne – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2023
High-quality early childhood education and care is of critical importance to children's optimal development and wellbeing, and to a nation's social and economic capital. Consequently, assessing and monitoring quality through regulatory mechanisms has become increasingly significant across the world. Yet, literature pertaining to the impact of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality, Rating Scales, Teacher Attitudes
Christopher Speldewinde; Coral Campbell – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2024
The teaching and learning of design technology that occurs in nature-based early childhood education and care (ECEC) contexts such as nature kindergartens remains under-theorised. There is a growing body of scholarship that describes how teaching and learning occurs in these contexts as well as highlighting the benefits for young children learning…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Science Instruction, STEM Education, Preschool Teachers
Christina Weiland; Rebecca Unterman; Susan Dynarski; Rachel Abenavoli; Howard Bloom; Breno Braga; Anne-Marie Faria; Erica Greenberg; Brian Jacob; Jane Arnold Lincove; Karen Manship; Meghan McCormick; Luke Miratrix; Tomás E. Monarrez; Pamela Morris-Perez; Anna Shapiro; Jon Valant; Lindsay Weixler – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Lottery-based identification strategies offer potential for generating the next generation of evidence on U.S. early education programs. Our collaborative network of five research teams applying this design in early education and methods experts has identified six challenges that need to be carefully considered in this next context: (1) available…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Admission (School)
Nishank Varshney – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Despite growing evidence about the significance of Early Childhood Development (ECD) programs, public investment has been relatively low, resulting in slower expansion of evidence-based ECD programs. This dissertation consists of three essays on conducting and using economic evaluation methods to scale up early childhood education and development…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Early Childhood Education, Evaluation Methods, Program Development
Margaret F. Quinn; Gary E. Bingham; Rebecca Rohloff; Hope K. Gerde – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
Teachers' knowledge impacts their practices in classrooms. While considerable research has sought to understand teachers' broad emergent literacy knowledge, less is known about the specific knowledge teachers hold regarding early writing. The present study engaged 66 diverse early childhood teachers in five Head Start programs across two states to…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Social Services, Low Income Students, Faculty Development
Wang, Shiyao; Hou, Yi – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2021
Learning stories have been adopted as a form of assessment in early childhood education worldwide to assess children's learning processes, learning dispositions, and well-being. However, a paucity of research has been done which examines the applicability of learning stories in China. This case study investigated how learning stories are used by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation, Story Telling, Evaluation Methods
Nesrin Ozturk, Editor – IntechOpen, 2025
"Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood Education and Care" delves into the dynamic landscape of early childhood education and critically addresses the intersection of theory and practice, offering a range of theoretical frameworks and practical strategies to support the holistic development of children. It explores a diverse array of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Modern History, Intersectionality
Lynn A. Karoly; Stephanie J. Walsh; Phoebe Rose Levine – RAND Corporation, 2024
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Child Care, requires states to use information about the provider cost of child care to inform the setting of payment rates under the Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) program. This requirement is consistent with the growing recognition that…
Descriptors: Child Care, Early Childhood Education, State Policy, Costs
Furu, Ann-Christin; Valkonen, Satu – International Journal of Early Childhood Environmental Education, 2021
Finnish legislation and policy on early childhood education and care (ECEC) express sustainability as a basic value. The national core curricula state that, during their years in ECEC, all children have the right to develop necessary values, knowledge and skills for living a sustainable life. Furthermore, early years education should be permeated…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Early Childhood Education, Sustainability, Foreign Countries
Urban, Mathias; Reikerås, Elin; Eidsvåg, Gunnar Magnus; Guevara, Jennifer; Saebø, Janken; Semmoloni, Carolina – Global Studies of Childhood, 2023
This paper presents and discusses the findings of a collaborative investigation into Nordic approaches to evaluation and assessment in early childhood education and care. The project explored values and principles that underpin and guide evaluation in ECEC systems and practices in five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Educational Quality
