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Direct linkPakarinen, Eija; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Poikkeus, Anna-Maija; Kiuru, Noona; Siekkinen, Martti; Rasku-Puttonen, Helena; Nurmi, Jari-Erik – Early Education and Development, 2010
Research Findings: This study examined the validity and reliability of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS; R. C. Pianta, K. M. La Paro, & B. K. Hamre, 2008) in Finnish kindergartens. A pair of trained observers used the CLASS to observe 49 kindergarten teachers (47 female, 2 male) on two different days. Questionnaires measuring…
Descriptors: Scoring, Factor Analysis, Kindergarten, Foreign Countries
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
Guhn, Martin; Gadermann, Anne; Zumbo, Bruno D. – Early Education and Development, 2007
The present study investigates whether the Early Development Instrument (Offord & Janus, 1999) measures school readiness similarly across different groups of children. We employ ordinal logistic regression to investigate differential item functioning, a method of examining measurement bias. For 40,000 children, our analysis compares groups…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Kindergarten, Child Development, Program Validation
