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Ehrlich, Stacy B.; Pacchiano, Debra M.; Stein, Amanda G.; Wagner, Maureen R. – University of Chicago Consortium on School Research, 2018
High-quality, well-implemented early childhood education (ECE) positively affects the learning trajectories of children who start school with lower skills than their peers, according to decades of evidence. Yet studies on ECE programs across the country reveal that too few offer high-quality programming. To date, the ECE field has focused most…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality, Educational Improvement, Teacher Surveys
Ehrlich, Stacy B.; Pacchiano, Debra M.; Stein, Amanda G.; Wagner, Maureen R. – University of Chicago Consortium on School Research, 2018
High-quality, well-implemented early childhood education (ECE) positively affects the learning trajectories of children who start school with lower skills than their peers, according to decades of evidence. Yet studies on ECE programs across the country reveal that too few offer high-quality programming. To date, the ECE field has focused most…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality, Teacher Surveys
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Ehrlich, Stacy B.; Pacchiano, Debra M.; Luppescu, Stuart; Stein, Amanda – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
The current study sought to scientifically adapt the existing five essentials teacher survey and develop a new parent survey, and pilot test them for use in early childhood education settings. The adaptation and development of these "Early Education Surveys" occurred in 2014-15, was based strongly on Bryk et al.'s (2010) existing…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Teacher Surveys, Parent Surveys, Early Childhood Education
Ehrlich, Stacy B.; Pacchiano, Debra M.; Stein, Amanda G.; Luppescu, Stuart – University of Chicago Consortium on School Research, 2016
Decades of research evidence indicate that high-quality early education can positively affect the learning trajectories of disadvantaged young children. However, despite significant investments to improve what happens in the classroom, publicly funded pre-kindergarten programs continue to display instructional quality that is too weak to prepare…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Early Experience, Disadvantaged, Teacher Surveys