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Brown, Christopher P.; Barry, David P.; Ku, Da Hei; Englehardt, Joanna – Early Education and Development, 2021
Research Findings: This article investigates how a sample of families, educators, researchers, advocates, and policymakers (n = 93) made sense of how children are and should be taught in kindergarten. By examining their conceptions of instruction that define kindergarten in this current era of standards and accountability and what opportunities…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Kindergarten, Early Childhood Education, Teaching Methods
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Montroy, Janelle J.; Zucker, Tricia A.; Assel, Michael M.; Landry, Susan H.; Anthony, Jason L.; Williams, Jeffrey M.; Hsu, Hsien-Yuan; Crawford, April; Johnson, Ursula Y.; Carlo, Maria S.; Taylor, Heather B. – Early Education and Development, 2020
There is a significant need for kindergarten entry assessments (KEA) that meet state education agency (SEA) requirements and are psychometrically sound measures of a broad range of school readiness domains such as language, literacy, math, science, executive function, and social-emotional skills. Research Findings: In this paper, we describe five…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, School Readiness, Student Evaluation, Test Construction
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Pollard-Durodola, Sharolyn D.; Gonzalez, Jorge E.; Saenz, Laura; Soares, Denise; Davis, Heather S.; Resendez, Nora; Zhu, Leina – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Findings: A social validity measure was used to examine 56 bilingual preschool teachers' perceptions and acceptability of an interactive shared book reading vocabulary intervention implemented in English with Spanish-speaking preschool children (N = 334) in a dual language program model. Social validity outcomes indicated that bilingual…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Correlation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning