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Direct linkKatherine E. Frye; Elizabeth J. Garis; Ted O. Myers; A. Corinne Huggins-Manley; Tina M. Smith-Bonahue; Kristen M. Kemple; LeAnna Kehl – Early Education and Development, 2025
Research Findings: Emotion knowledge is one facet of social and emotional learning (SEL) that emerges in early childhood. Various interventions and measures target preschoolers' emotional skills to bolster these foundational competencies prior to formal schooling. One measure of emotion knowledge specifically with preschool children is the Affect…
Descriptors: Test Reliability, Test Validity, Preschool Children, Psychological Patterns
Elizabeth Hentschel; Ha T. T. Tran; Hannah H. Leslie; Aisha K. Yousafzai – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: Childcare provider stress and job satisfaction has been found to influence childcare quality in high-income contexts, but this phenomenon has yet to be studied in a low- or middle-income country. In 2019-2020, we tested the reliability and validity of the Child Care Center Work Environment Scale (CCCWES) with 416 childcare…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Stress Variables, Job Satisfaction, Child Care
Lee, Ji Young; Sung, Jihyun – Early Education and Development, 2022
This study aims to validate a Korean version of the Brief Version of the Child Abuse Potential Inventory (BCAP-K) for use with childcare providers in South Korea. By employing a stratified sampling method, 808 childcare providers in charge of infants' classes were selected for participation. Participants completed a questionnaire that included…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Test Validity, Test Reliability, Measures (Individuals)
Nguyen, Tutrang; Atkins-Burnett, Sally; Monahan, Shannon; Tarullo, Louisa; Xue, Yange; Cannon, Judy – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: The Quality of Care for Infants and Toddlers (QCIT) observational measure was designed to address the need for a valid and reliable measure of the quality of caregiver-child interactions that could be used in both center-based and family child care (FCC) settings, and with diverse populations. Results from a psychometric field…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Infants, Toddlers, Caregiver Child Relationship
Sokolovic, Nina; Brunsek, Ashley; Rodrigues, Michelle; Borairi, Sahar; Jenkins, Jennifer M.; Perlman, Michal – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Findings: In this study, we tested whether it is possible to reliably evaluate the quality of interactions between early childhood educators and children using a thin-slice coding approach. Ninety-seven early childhood educators were videotaped for two five-minute intervals: one mealtime observation and one standardized activity. Videos…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Teacher Student Relationship, Test Reliability, Early Childhood Teachers
Barghaus, Katherine M.; Henderson, Cassandra M.; Fantuzzo, John W.; Brumley, Benjamin; Coe, Kristen; LeBoeuf, Whitney A.; Weiss, Emily M. – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: This study provides psychometric validation of the Classroom Engagement Scale (CES), a 14-item, teacher-report, formative assessment of behavioral engagement. It is currently used for all kindergarten children in a large, urban school district where it is embedded in the report card. Multi-level factor analysis revealed two…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Measurement Techniques, Kindergarten, Urban Schools
Wang, Yifang; Zhou, Yu; Jiang, Yong; Li, Hui; Liu, Xinxin – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: This study aimed to explore parental satisfaction with Puhui early childhood education (ECE) service in China using evidence from a national validation study. The Parent Satisfaction with the Puhui Early Childhood Education Service Scale (PES) was developed and validated with 4,134 Chinese parents, who were sampled using a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes, Early Childhood Education, Government Role
Gutiérrez, Nuria; Jiménez, Juan E.; de León, Sara C. – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Findings: Universal screening is the first stage in identifying students at risk for reading difficulties within a Response to Intervention model. However, there is a lack of validated screening tools for assessing reading abilities in first-grade students from Spain. This pilot study examines the technical adequacy, classification…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
Houri, Alaa K.; Miller, Faith G. – Early Education and Development, 2020
Research Findings: Universal screening practices that utilize reliable and valid screening measures are vital for identifying social-emotional and behavioral (SEB) concerns for students at-risk for future behavioral and academic difficulties. Screening procedures implemented at the start of kindergarten can result in early identification and…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Kindergarten, Screening Tests, Social Development
Wolcott, Catherine S.; Williford, Amanda P.; Hartz-Mandell, Karyn – Early Education and Development, 2019
The links between a positive teacher-child relationship and young children's academic and social-emotional development have been well established, particularly for children with disruptive behaviors. However, less is known about children's views of the teacher-child relationship and how these representations relate to other established measures.…
Descriptors: Test Reliability, Preschool Children, Personal Narratives, Teacher Student Relationship
Vitiello, Virginia E.; Whittaker, Jessica V.; Mulcahy, Christina; Kinzie, Mable B.; Helferstay, Laura – Early Education and Development, 2019
Research Findings: Although interest in preschool science is growing, there are few observational measures of science teaching capable of advancing research or supporting professional growth among teachers. To address this gap, the current article presents the development and validation of the Preschool Science Observation Measure (PSOM), which…
Descriptors: Test Reliability, Test Validity, Preschool Children, Science Instruction
Juan Li; Jingyao Wang; Bowen Xiao; Yan Li; Hui Li – Early Education and Development, 2024
"Research Findings": The Problematic Media Use Measure (PMUM) assesses young children's excessive or problematic media use. The current study aims to translate the original English version of PMUM into a Chinese version and validate it with Chinese preschoolers (ages 3 to 6). The instrument was translated, back-translated, pretested, and…
Descriptors: Translation, Test Validity, Chinese, Measures (Individuals)
Güngör, Burcu; Önder, Alev – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: The aim of this study was to construct and validate "English Picture Vocabulary Test (EPVT)" that aimed to assess the very young learners' (VYLs) receptive and expressive vocabulary knowledge for specific content areas in English as a foreign language (EFL). In this context, EPVT was created in several stages. One of…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Test Construction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Ehrlich, Stacy B.; Pacchiano, Debra; Stein, Amanda G.; Wagner, Maureen R.; Park, Sangyoon; Frank, Elizabeth; Luppescu, Stuart; Young, Chris – Early Education and Development, 2019
Research Findings: The "Early Education Essentials" surveys use teacher and parent perceptions to measure 6 organizational conditions of early childhood education programs, extending and complementing existing measures of early childhood care and education (ECE) quality constructs. This study tests the reliability and concurrent validity…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Teacher Attitudes, Parent Attitudes, Child Care
Curenton, Stephanie M.; Iruka, Iheoma U.; Humphries, Marisha; Jensen, Bryant; Durden, Tonia; Rochester, Shana E.; Sims, Jacqueline; Whittaker, Jessica V.; Kinzie, Mable B. – Early Education and Development, 2020
Research Findings: The purpose of this study was to refine and validate the Assessing Classroom Sociocultural Equity Scale (ACSES), an observation tool for measuring equitable sociocultural interactions in early childhood classrooms (pre-K to Grade 3) with racially minoritized learners (RMLs). Preliminary psychometric information from 142…
Descriptors: Observation, Measures (Individuals), Early Childhood Education, Minority Group Students
