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Download full textYun, Cathy; Melnick, Hanna; Wechsler, Marjorie – Learning Policy Institute, 2021
Early childhood assessments can provide important information to guide instruction and inform policy. Given the widespread and growing use of statewide kindergarten entry assessments (KEAs), in particular, it is important that policymakers understand how to choose and use assessments wisely. This brief summarizes research showing how authentic…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Performance Based Assessment, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Student Evaluation
High-Quality Early Childhood Assessment: Learning from States' Use of Kindergarten Entry Assessments
Yun, Cathy; Melnick, Hanna; Wechsler, Marjorie – Learning Policy Institute, 2021
High-quality early childhood programs aim to foster children's learning through developmentally appropriate practices and environments. Early childhood assessments, when well designed and well implemented, can support developmentally appropriate early learning experiences by providing information to guide instruction and support whole child…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Early Childhood Education, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Student Evaluation
Direct linkWinnekar, Anna; Fox, Lise – Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, 2020
This Practice Brief was developed as result of the roundtable dialogue that occurred at the 2019 PBIS [Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports] Leadership Forum in Chicago, Illinois, for the purpose of exploring how all classes on school campuses can meet the developmental needs of students, specifically our youngest students.
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Early Childhood Education, Student Needs, Child Development
Walker, Susan P.; Chang, Susan M.; Smith, Joanne A.; Baker-Henningham, Helen – ZERO TO THREE, 2018
Nurturing care in early childhood requires responsive interactions and opportunities to learn; however, there are few large-scale programs in low- and middle-income countries that support parents' ability to provide responsive care and activities that help children learn. The Reach Up training program was developed to increase capacity of…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Parent Education, Early Intervention, Family Programs
Levin, Diane E.; Van Hoorn, Judith L. – Defending the Early Years, 2016
Soon after the implementation of federal and state early education mandates that require the teaching and testing of more formal "academic" skills, many highly experienced early childhood teachers began voicing concerns about the negative impact the mandates were having on the young children in their classrooms. Many of these concerns…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Program Effectiveness, Low Income Students, Early Childhood Education
Friedlaender, Diane; Beckham, Kyle; Zheng, Xinhua; Darling-Hammond, Linda – Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, 2015
This report documents the practices and outcomes of Alice Birney, a public K-8 Waldorf-Inspired School in Sacramento City Unified School District (SCUSD). This study highlights how such a school addresses students' academic, social, emotional, physical, and creative development. Birney students outperform similar students in SCUSD on several…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Educational Philosophy, Educational History, Educational Research
Mattern, Janet Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Children grow and change more rapidly during the first eight years of life than any other time in their life span. Progression through the physical, cognitive, and social-emotional developmental stages varies for each individual child. Children with atypical development experience a wide spectrum of variability in their development. Over the past…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Early Intervention, Program Implementation, Special Needs Students
Peer reviewedUdell, Tom; Peters, Joyce; Templeman, Torry Piazza – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 1998
Discusses how early childhood programs can blend developmentally appropriate practices with early childhood special education recommended practices. The elements of an inclusive program and the guidelines to developmentally appropriate practice are explained, and strategies for implementing both practices within the same setting are described. (CR)
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Stages, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Disabilities
Kostelnik, Marjorie J. – 1993
This digest debunks myths about developmentally appropriate programs (DAPs) and discusses essential characteristics of developmentally appropriate practices. Common myths or erroneous assumptions about DAPs assume that: (1) there is only one right way to implement a DAP; (2) DAPs are unstructured, and practitioners offer minimal guidance to the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Development, Cultural Differences, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Canales, JoAnn; Duron, Susan – 2002
This chapter is part of a book that recounts the year's work at the Early Childhood Development Center (ECDC) at Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi. Rather than an "elitist" laboratory school for the children of university faculty, the ECDC is a collaboration between the Corpus Christi Independent School District and the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Child Development, Child Development Centers, College School Cooperation
Peer reviewedCarta, Judith J.; And Others – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1991
This article reviews the rationales and premises of the Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP) approach and early childhood special education (ECSE), highlighting areas of overlap. DAP's insufficiencies for planning, implementing, and evaluating ECSE programs are noted. A selective literature review clarifies issues separating the two areas,…
Descriptors: Child Development, Delivery Systems, Developmental Stages, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Hallion, Andrea M. – 1994
This paper traces the development of graded and non-graded classrooms in the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries and describes the implementation of multiage classrooms at an elementary school in Hopedale, Massachusetts. After defining what is meant by multiage classrooms, the paper discusses the role of Horace Mann, who was then a…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Child Development, Classroom Environment, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Montague, Nicole S.; Marroquin, Christine; Lucido, Frank – 2002
This chapter is part of a book that recounts the year's work at the Early Childhood Development Center (ECDC) at Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi. Rather than an "elitist" laboratory school for the children of university faculty, the ECDC is a collaboration between the Corpus Christi Independent School District and the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Child Development, Child Development Centers, College School Cooperation
