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Direct linkGuhn, 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
Peer reviewedWalsh, Daniel J. – Early Education and Development, 1992
Considers the relationship between early childhood education and the public schools, including the "developmental" versus "academic" debate, the role of kindergarten, and the influence of developmental psychology on early childhood education. Maintains that a sense of separateness from public schools is a detriment for those involved in early…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Development, Childhood Needs, Cooperative Planning
