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Pan, Yue-Juan; Liu, Yan; Lau, Eva Yi Hung – Early Education and Development, 2010
Research Findings: An effective quality rating system will lead to quality assurance and improvement of early childhood education programs. Many studies have been conducted to examine the validity of quality rating instruments in Western countries, but few have been done in China. The present study investigated the effectiveness of the Beijing…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Rating Scales, Quality Control, Foreign Countries
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Keating, Daniel P. – Early Education and Development, 2007
This article is a commentary for the special issue on the Early Development Instrument (EDI), a community tool to assess children's school readiness and developmental outcomes at a group level. The EDI is administered by kindergarten teachers, who assess their kindergarten students on 5 developmental domains: physical health and well-being, social…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Formative Evaluation, Kindergarten, Cognitive Development
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Molfese, Victoria J.; DiLalla, Lisabeth F. – Early Education and Development, 1995
Examined the effectiveness of small sets of predictor variables for correctly identifying children as developmentally delayed at four to seven years of age. A combination of six biomedical risk items, maternal education level, and four subscale scores from the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment Inventory is effective when used as…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Cognitive Development, Cost Effectiveness, Developmental Delays