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Title: | Rethinking high-stakes use of observational measures of preschool quality |
Author(s): | GORDON, RACHEL A. |
Subject(s): | policy
child research observational quality preschool education programs teachers |
Abstract: | Early childhood education has seen increased high-stakes use of observational measures of child care and preschool quality in recent years. Scoring above or below a particular cut-score on these measures now has substantial financial and reputational consequences for child-care centers and preschools. This policy brief summarizes a study of the effectiveness of these observational assessments that reveals problems that have important implications for the high-stakes use of the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale, Revised (ECERS-R). A companion journal article on this subject by the author and her collaborators can be found in AERA Open, a journal of the American Educational Research Association, published by Sage Journals. That article is titled "Examining the category functioning of the ECERS-R across eight data sets." |
Issue Date: | 2018-03-14 |
Publisher: | Institute of Government & Public Affairs |
Genre: | Article |
Type: | Text |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/110178 |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2021-07-21 |