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Direct linkBlenda Luize Chor Rodrigues; Linda L. Hestenes – Early Education and Development, 2025
Research Findings: Outdoor environments have recently become part of the early childhood quality puzzle, which has long been important to trace relationships between children's experiences in child care and their development. However, fewer studies have analyzed the extent to which the quality of these outdoor spaces relates to young children's…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Thinking Skills, Interpersonal Competence, Outdoor Education
Coleman, Heather; Hestenes, Linda; Ozdemir, Merve Kubra – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2022
It is beneficial to keep the information concerning quality of care offered to infants and toddlers current to maximize children's outcomes. This study analyzed the data collected from 2016 to 2018 in order to examine the current status of quality of care for infants/toddlers in licensed child-care centers in North Carolina and compared findings…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Inclusion, Infants, Toddlers
Yaya-Bryson, Dilara; Scott-Little, Catherine; Akman, Berrin; Cassidy, Deborah J. – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2020
This study examined the quality of early childhood education programs in two different quality rating and improvement systems, one in Turkey and the other in the state of North Carolina in the USA. The early childhood environment rating scale-revised edition" was used to evaluate the quality of early childhood classrooms, and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Educational Quality, Early Childhood Education
Download full textNeitzel, Jennifer; Early, Diane; Sideris, John; LaForrett, Doré; Abel, Michael B.; Soli, Margaret; Davidson, Dawn L.; Haboush-Deloye, Amanda; Hestenes, Linda L.; Jenson, Denise; Johnson, Cindy; Kalas, Jennifer; Mamrak, Angela; Masterson, Marie L.; Mims, Sharon U.; Oya, Patti; Philson, Bobbi; Showalter, Megan; Warner-Richter, Mallory; Kortright Wood, Jill – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2019
The Early Childhood Environment Rating Scales, including the "Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale--Revised" (Harms et al., 2005) and the "Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale, Third Edition" (Harms et al., 2015) are the most widely used observational assessments in early childhood learning environments. The most recent…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality, Scoring
Yao, Zhuojun; Enright, Robert – Journal of Moral Education, 2023
The association between prosocial behavior and adolescents' social class--defined as one's parents' position in society assessed in terms of education, income, and occupation status--is far from conclusive and the moderators of the link have not been fully researched. Using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development…
Descriptors: Correlation, Social Class, Prosocial Behavior, Emotional Response
Understanding Hikers' Behavioral Intent toward Leave No Trace in Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Schafer, David; Bobilya, Andrew J.; Lawhon, Ben; Faircloth, W. Brad; Schultz, Jeremy – Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership, 2022
Resource degradation is a chief concern related to increased recreational of U.S. public lands. The Seven Leave No Trace (LNT) Principles are used to educate visitors how to reduce recreational impacts. This study sought to understand Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GRSM) hikers' behavioral intent toward LNT practices. A quantitative…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Conservation (Environment), Parks, Recreational Activities
Gendle, Mathew H.; Tapler, Amanda – Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, 2022
In this preliminary study, the Global Engagement Survey (GES) was used to assess developmental outcomes in undergraduate students enrolled in a multi-year community-based global learning program. Statistically significant growth was observed on the Civic Efficacy (CE) scale of the GES (p = 0.01). The GES appears to have significant utility in the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Outcomes of Education, Global Education, Student Surveys
Colby, Anne; Malin, Heather; Morton, Emily – Journal of College and Character, 2022
Public discourse often frames the value of undergraduate education in financial terms--credentialing and increased earning power. Students must prepare to be self-supporting, but are financial prospects their only important goals? We asked 1,500 students from 11 U.S. colleges to write about their goals, the reasons their goals were important, and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Outcomes of Education, Student Attitudes, Goal Orientation
Sandercock, Rachel K.; Lamarche, Elena M.; Klinger, Mark R.; Klinger, Laura G. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2020
Self-report measures are widely used for research and clinical assessment of adults with autism spectrum disorder. However, there has been little research examining the convergence of self- and informant-report in this population. This study examined agreement between 40 pairs of adults with autism spectrum disorder and their caregivers on…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Adults, Measurement Techniques
Lambert, Richard G. – Center for Educational Measurement and Evaluation, 2018
This report contains reliability and validity evidence for the North Carolina Kindergarten Entry Assessment system (KEA) using a statewide sample of kindergarten children. The KEA was designed as a formative, developmental, authentic, and criterion referenced classroom resource for teachers. As a formative assessment, the KEA focuses on the…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, School Readiness, Kindergarten, Formative Evaluation
McMillian, Kimberley Suzanne – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The study aims to explore the level of suburban 5th grade students' mathematics self-efficacy, math anxiety, and academic achievement, to discover the possible interconnections between these parameters. The measures used to evaluate each included the Math Anxiety Rating Scale, the Self-Efficacy Questionnaire, and the North Carolina End of Grade…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Anxiety, Self Efficacy
Dawkins, Tamara; Meyer, Allison T.; Van Bourgondien, Mary E. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2016
"The Childhood Autism Rating Scale, Second Edition" (CARS2; 2010) includes two rating scales; the CARS2-Standard Version (CARS2-ST) and the newly developed CARS2-High Functioning Version (CARS2-HF). To assess the diagnostic agreement between the CARS2 and DSM-IV-TR versus DSM-5 criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), clinicians at…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Rating Scales, Universities
Harrell-Williams, Leigh M.; Lovett, Jennifer N.; Lee, Hollylynne S.; Pierce, Rebecca L.; Lesser, Lawrence M.; Sorto, M. Alejandra – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2019
Recently adopted state standards for middle grades and high school mathematics content have an increased emphasis on statistical topics. With this change, teacher education programs may need to adapt how they prepare preservice secondary mathematics teachers (PSMTs) to teach statistics and require measures related to statistics teaching to assess…
Descriptors: Program Validation, Scores, Secondary Education, Preservice Teachers
Bassok, Daphna; Dee, Thomas S.; Latham, Scott – Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis, 2017
In an effort to enhance the quality of early childhood education (ECE) at scale, nearly all U.S. states have recently adopted Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS). These accountability systems give providers and parents information on program quality and create both reputational and financial incentives for program improvement. However,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Early Childhood Education, Quality Control, Program Effectiveness
Burchinal, Margaret; Garber, Kylie; Foster, Tiffany; Bratsch-Hines, Mary; Franco, Ximena; Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen – Grantee Submission, 2021
Although high-quality early care and education (ECE) is widely accepted as one of the most effective means for promoting early learning and development, many ECE programs have limited impact perhaps because of issues with how ECE quality is defined and measured. This study seeks to expand definitions of ECE quality by asking which preschool ECE…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Child Care, Academic Achievement, Outcomes of Education
