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Development and Validation of an Instrument to Assess the Implementation of Family-Centred Care in Traditional Open Bay Neonatal Intensive Care Units
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Al-Motlaq, Mohammad A.; Abuidhail, Jamila; Salameh, Taghreed; Awwad, Wesam – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
Objective: To develop an instrument to study family-centred care (FCC) in traditional open bay Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs). Methods: The development process involved constructing instrument's items, establishing content validity by an expert panel and testing the instrument for validity and reliability with a convenience sample of 25…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neonates, Medical Services, Program Implementation
Assessing the Early Literacy Skills of Toddlers: The Development of Four Foundational Measures
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Weigel, Daniel J.; Martin, Sally S.; Lowman, Jennifer L. – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
Several challenges arise when researchers or practitioners attempt to assess the literacy skills of toddlers, including a lack of developmentally appropriate measures, toddlers' more limited communication ability, and how literacy is defined in the years before age three. This paper describes four new measures of early literacy development and…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Emergent Literacy, Test Validity, Test Reliability
Preliminary Psychometric Properties of the CFTIndex in Greece: The Perspective of Physical Education
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Konstantinidou, Elisavet; Zisi, Vasiliki; Michalopoulou, Maria – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
The promotion of creativity has been proved a necessity in the education process. The research on creativity in physical education though is very limited worldwide and there is a lack of multilingual evaluation instruments. In the current study, the Creativity Fostering Teacher Index (CFTIndex) was translated and culturally adapted in Greek and…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Creativity
Universal Developmental Screening: Preliminary Studies in Galicia, Spain
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Sarmiento Campos, Jose A.; Squires, Jane; Ponte, Jaime – Early Child Development and Care, 2011
"A_Tempo" is a research project that is currently under development in Galicia, an autonomous community of Spain. Its main aim is to propose an effective universal screening procedure for early identification of developmental disorders in children from zero to three years of age who attend Galician pre-primary schools.…
Descriptors: Disability Identification, Foreign Countries, Screening Tests, Questionnaires
A Scale of Student Teaching Concerns (SSTC).
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Arroyo, Aline A.; Sugawara, Alan I. – Early Child Development and Care, 1993
A total of 107 beginning and advanced student teachers were assessed using the Scale of Student Teaching Concerns (SSTC) questionnaire to test the validity of the instrument. The SSTC questionnaire measured student teacher concerns in four areas: (1) survival concerns; (2) consolidation concerns; (3) renewal concerns; and (4) maturity concerns.…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Questionnaires, Student Teacher Attitudes, Student Teacher Evaluation
Assessing the Families' Perceptions of Their Young Children's Acquisition of Literacy.
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Saracho, Olivia N. – Early Child Development and Care, 2000
Used responses from open-ended interviews with 10 families of young children to develop a 60-item family literacy questionnaire examining families' perceptions of their contributions to emergent literacy. Matched questionnaire factors with those emerging from literature review on family variables influencing literacy. Found 95 percent agreement on…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Family Attitudes, Family Environment, Family Influence