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Validation of a Revised Observation-Based Assessment Tool for Children Birth through Kindergarten: The COR Advantage
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Wakabayashi, Tomoko; Claxton, Jill; Smith, Everett V., Jr. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2019
The Child Observation Record (COR), initially developed in 1993 by HighScope Educational Research Foundation, is an observation-based instrument that provides systematic assessment of young children's knowledge and abilities in all major areas of development. Teachers or caregivers spend a few minutes each day writing brief notes or…
Descriptors: Observation, Evaluation Methods, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten
Relations between Inhibitory Control and the Development of Academic Skills in Preschool and Kindergarten: A Meta-Analysis
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Nicholas P. Allan; Laura E. Hume; Darcey M. Allan; Amber L. Farrington; Christopher J. Lonigan – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Although there is evidence that young children's inhibitory control (IC) is related to their academic skills, the nature of this relation and the role of potential moderators of it are not well understood. In this meta-analytic study, we summarized results from 75 peer-reviewed studies of preschool and kindergarten children (14,424 children; 32-80…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Kindergarten, Young Children, Inhibition
Developing and Evaluating a Kindergarten to Third Grade CBM Mathematics Assessment
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Lee, Young-Sun; Lembke, Erica – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2016
The present study examined the technical adequacy of curriculum-based measurement (CBM) measure of early numeracy for kindergarten through third grade students. Our CBM measures were developed to reflect broad and theoretically derived categories of mathematical thinking: quick retrieval, written computation, and number sense. The mastery of these…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Numeracy, Kindergarten
Can We Measure the Transition to Reading? General Outcome Measures and Early Literacy Development from Preschool to Early Elementary Grades
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McConnell, Scott; Wackerle-Hollman, Alisha – AERA Open, 2016
This study evaluated the extent to which existing measures met standards for a continuous suite of general outcome measures (GOMs) assessing children's early literacy from preschool through early elementary school. The study assessed 316 children from age 3 years (2 years prekindergarten) through Grade 2, with 8 to 10 measures of language,…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation, Emergent Literacy, Preschool Children