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Kaya, Isa – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2018
This research intended to determine the alternative assessment methods used by the preschool teachers and their opinions, knowledge and competencies related to these methods. The research group of the study comprised of 10 kindergarten teachers working in Konya province during the 2017-2018 academic year in Turkey. The data obtained through the…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Opinions, Alternative Assessment
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Vasquez-Martinez, Claudio-Rafael; Flores, Francisco; Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Felipe; Zúñiga, Luz-María; Guerra, Martha; Espino, Piero; Olaguez, Eugenia; García-Sosa, Erika-Yadira; Alvarez, Maria-Ines; Torres-Mata, Joaquin – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2021
The Mexican educational reform is based on transformations towards the conception of a new world, as a result of technological advances and new knowledge communities, where the parameters are established mainly by various international organizations, and where countries implement, evaluate, integrate and describe the necessary conditions for…
Descriptors: Mixed Age Grouping, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Preschool Education
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Irwin, Clare Waterman; Madura, John P.; Bamat, David; McDermott, Paul A. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Latent profile analysis (LPA) was used to explore whether multiple measures, each designed to address one aspect of classroom quality, could collectively differentiate early childhood classrooms in both a consistent and substantively meaningful way. Using data from the Head Start Impact Study from 2002/03, Head Start and center-based early…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Preschool Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Child Care Centers
Council of Chief State School Officers, 2018
In May 2016 an Invitational Symposium on the Reading for Understanding (RfU) Initiative was held in Alexandria, Virginia. Co-hosted by ETS and the Council of Chief State School Officers, the symposium brought together 160 state and local education leaders to examine the results of the RfU initiative. The goal of the U.S. Department of…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Preschool Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Curriculum Development
White, E. J. – Online Submission, 2011
The genesis for this paper lies in the problematic nature of assessment practice, as a central authorship activity, for early childhood education teachers. This paper draws on dialogic philosophy to explore this challenge based on a doctoral investigation of a very young child (White, 2009) and the strategic means by which she reveals and conceals…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Young Children
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Pang, Nicholas Sun-keung; Sun-keung, Nicholas – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2014
The concept of "Assessment-of-Learning" (AoL) has long been the tradition in most school assessment practices in Hong Kong. In view of the deficiencies in the assessment mechanism, the Education Commission (2000) recommended "Assessment-for-Learning" (AfL) as one of the major areas of action in the current education reform.…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Early Childhood Education, College School Cooperation, Preschool Teachers
Lawton, Stephen B. – Online Submission, 2009
The Arizona English-Language Learner Assessment (AZELLA) is the backbone of Arizona's new English-language learner (ELL) policy in that it is used to assess students' English-language proficiency in order to place them into groups for English-language instruction and to determine when they have become proficient in English. This paper evaluates a…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Item Response Theory, Language Proficiency, Scaling