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Direct linkMeaghan McKenna; Hope Gerde; Nicolette Grasley-Boy – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
This article describes the development and administration of the "Kindergarten-Second Grade (K-2) Writing Data-Based Decision Making (DBDM) Survey." The "K-2 Writing DBDM Survey" was developed to learn more about current DBDM practices specific to early writing. A total of 376 educational professionals (175 general education…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Writing Instruction, Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten
Download full textRamollo, Jeanette K.; Kanjee, Anil – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2023
Background: Formative assessment has been reported to improve learners' learning in affluent contexts. However, very few studies have reported the impact of formative assessment on teachers' knowledge and understanding in no-fee public schools located in a low socioeconomic context. Aim: This article investigates the impact of the Assessment for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Elementary School Teachers
Earlene Warren-Fernandez – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study examined the quality of pre-K educational programs in New York City. I identified how program quality relates to student and teacher variables. The study used NYC Department of Education public ECERS-R data to measure program quality. I examined and analyzed to determine their influence on program quality. The independent variables are…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Evaluation Methods, Educational Quality, Preschool Evaluation
Elizabeth Rupnik – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This basic qualitative study aimed to understand how the results of the kindergarten readiness assessments are used within the classroom for planning curriculum, connecting to learning standards, and implementing individualized instruction, along with kindergarten teachers' perspectives on the usefulness of kindergarten readiness testing. The…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Anna Siippainen; Hannele Pitkänen – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
The rise of evaluation and data in education and education policy is a trend manifesting across a wide variety of policy contexts, holding in its grip national and global policies, with impacts that reach the level of individual children, teachers, and their subjectivities. Earlier research has mainly focused on the phenomenon in neoliberal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy, Educational Assessment
Swanson, Loraine; Menon, Meera; Minogue, Amber; Russell, Rebecca; Berns, Scott – Infants and Young Children, 2023
Given the proportion of young children experiencing disadvantages in achieving optimal health due to inequities related to race, place, and income, there is increasing attention to developing effective early childhood (EC) systems. As EC leaders embrace methods such as collective impact in driving systems change, there is a growing recognition…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Program Evaluation, Program Improvement, Educational Innovation
Carlos Montoya-Fernández; Luisa Losada-Puente; Isabel María Gómez-Barreto; Pedro Gil-Madrona – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2024
This systematic review aims to identify the dimensions operationalized in different instruments that assess the developmental domains in Early Childhood Education through play. Research between 2015 and 2021 that dealt with quantitative developmental assessment instruments from 2 to 7 years of age were included. Instruments without psychometric…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Play, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Stan, Loredana-Alina – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2021
This article focuses on the results of an investigation about the "traffic light" method in kindergarten, which is used as a self-assessment method, a strategy by which the preschoolers evaluate their own progress in achieving the learning objectives, and the teacher obtains an immediate feedback regarding the level of understanding of…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Preschool Children, Kindergarten
Divya Varier; Sehyun Yun – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2023
The article describes a systematic review of 109 studies using the data-informed decision-making framework to understand the sources of assessment data and the main purposes for assessment use among early childhood educators. Findings revealed assessment use is driven by the purposes of measuring and monitoring children's learning and development,…
Descriptors: Evaluation Utilization, Data Use, Decision Making, Early Childhood Teachers
Bolden, Benjamin; DeLuca, Christopher – Research Studies in Music Education, 2022
This article reports research that identified and analyzed assessment for learning strategies employed by six Canadian music educators to support and develop student creativity. Findings include descriptions of creativity-nurturing practices organized into four categories: (a) developing assessment criteria; (b) encouraging creative processes; (c)…
Descriptors: Creativity, Music Education, Learning Strategies, Music Teachers
Scott, Katharine E.; King, Rachel Ann; Cochrane, Aaron; Kalish, Charles; Shutts, Kristin – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2023
The present research evaluated whether behavioral tasks ("direct assessments") commonly used to assess young children's social cognitive development in laboratory studies could have utility for measuring and predicting U.S. children's outcomes in educational contexts. To do so, children (N = 95; 49 boys, 46 girls; 41.05% White, 16.84%…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Interpersonal Competence, Grade Prediction, Academic Achievement
Holcomb, T. Scott; Lambert, Richard; Bottoms, Bryndle L. – Journal of Educational Supervision, 2022
In this study, various statistical indexes of agreement were calculated using empirical data from a group of evaluators (n = 45) of early childhood teachers. The group of evaluators rated ten fictitious teacher profiles using the North Carolina Teacher Evaluation Process (NCTEP) rubric. The exact and adjacent agreement percentages were calculated…
Descriptors: Interrater Reliability, Teacher Evaluation, Statistical Analysis, Early Childhood Teachers
Mathematica, 2022
Researchers, federal and state policy leaders and administrators, and center directors all seek to understand what drives high quality Early Care and Education (ECE). The Assessing the Implementation and Cost of High Quality Early Care and Education, or ICHQ (pronounced I-check) project, led by Mathematica and funded by the Office of Planning,…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Educational Quality, Early Childhood Education, Child Care
Weiland, Christina; Unterman, Rebecca; Dynarski, Susan; Abenavoli, Rachel; Bloom, Howard; Braga, Breno; Faria, Ann-Marie; Greenberg, Erica H.; Jacob, Brian; Arnold Lincove, Jane; Manship, Karen; McCormick, Meghan; Miratrix, Luke; Monarrez, Tomás E.; Morris-Perez, Pamela; Shapiro, Anna; Valant, Jon; Weixler, Lindsay – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023
Lottery-based identification strategies offer potential for generating the next generation of evidence on U.S. early education programs. Our collaborative network of five research teams applying this design in early education and methods experts has identified six challenges that need to be carefully considered in this next context: (1) available…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Admission (School)
Valerie Dehombreux – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Current teacher evaluation systems (TES) in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade (P-12) American public schools may be impeding the reflection and feedback processes needed for impacting teachers' professional growth and developing trusting, administrator-teacher relationships. The dominant purpose of summative evaluation has been to rate teachers'…
Descriptors: Teacher Administrator Relationship, Faculty Development, Summative Evaluation, Teacher Supervision
