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Ali Ibrahim Can Gözüm; Eren Halil Özberk; Ümit Ünsal Kaya; Özgün Uyanik Aktulun – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
Empirical research on number sense to date has been conducted with preschoolers and elementary school students. Despite their contributions to the literature, these studies have used variable-centered analytic approaches that may prevent distinct number sense profiles for preschoolers and first graders from being identified. This study aimed to…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Preschool Education, Elementary School Students, School Readiness
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Chen, Nanxi; Wu, Dandan; Hong, Huang-Yao; Chai, Ching Sing; Liang, Jyh-Chong – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2023
Engaging in design thinking activities has been increasingly viewed as important for the craft of teaching for early childhood practitioners. However, reliable and valid measurements for this are lacking. As such, this research aims to develop and validate a design thinking engagement scale (DTES) to assess teachers' engagement in design thinking.…
Descriptors: Design, Thinking Skills, Test Construction, Test Validity
Lambert, Richard G.; Holcomb, T. Scott; Bottoms, Bryndle – Center for Educational Measurement and Evaluation, 2022
The validity of the Kappa coefficient of chance-corrected agreement has been questioned when the prevalence of specific rating scale categories is low and agreement between raters is high. The researchers proposed the Lambda Coefficient of Rater-Mediated Agreement as an alternative to Kappa to address these concerns. Lambda corrects for chance…
Descriptors: Interrater Reliability, Evaluators, Rating Scales, Teacher Evaluation
Krystal Thomas; Todd A. Grindal; Daisy Wise Rutstein; Gullnar Syed; Sarah Nixon Gerard; Shari Golan; Sheryl Cababa; Amanda Di Dio; Behnosh Najafi; Kat Ward – SRI Education, a Division of SRI International, 2023
Instructional coaching, informed by observation tools that measure teachers' practices, has been effective in improving teaching quality in early learning programs. However, existing measurement tools limit teachers' abilities to implement this type of instructional coaching at scale. To address this challenge, a team at SRI Education, along with…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Kindergarten, Coaching (Performance), Observation
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Palmér, Hanna; Björklund, Camilla – Designs for Learning, 2022
This paper reports on a design oriented study conducted in close collaboration between two researchers and three preschool teachers. Within this study, a play-based interview script was designed in accordance with theoretically driven principles. Based on this script, the preschool teachers conducted interviews with children from three preschools…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Researchers, Cooperation, Interviews
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Songül Özgenel; I?sa Kaya – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2024
The aim of the study is to develop a Likert-type scale to determine the play preferences of children attending pre-school education. The research was designed and carried out according to the survey research model. Data collected from 3 different study groups were used in the scale development process. The study groups consist of parents of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Play
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Elizabeth A. DeLucia; Janey Dike; Theresa M. Andrzejewski; Christina G. McDonnell – Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
Average age of autism diagnosis exceeds four years (Maenner et al., 2020), delaying access to services and limiting early developmental research (Zwaigenbaum et al., 2015; Fletcher-Watson et al., 2017). Autism screening in early childhood settings may be a tool for enabling earlier, equitable diagnosis. This systematic review investigated the…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Screening Tests, Early Childhood Education, Preschools
Lauren Westerberg – ProQuest LLC, 2024
A major challenge to promoting effective early science and engineering education is the lack of reliable and validated assessments that align with current educational guidelines for science and engineering. Existing early science and engineering assessments either cover a narrow range of concepts and practices and/or are not designed in a way to…
Descriptors: Preschool Curriculum, Preschool Education, Preschool Evaluation, Preschool Tests
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Major, Sofia de Oliveira; Seabra-Santos, Maria João; Martin, Roy P. – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Parents offer unique information and are recognized as the main informants about children's social emotional functioning across time and situations. Inter-parental agreement was analysed with 100 preschoolers (M[subscript age] = 54.94 months) being rated independently by their mothers and fathers, using the Portuguese version of the Preschool and…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Interpersonal Competence, Parent Attitudes, Behavior Problems
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Lewis, Carly A.; Myers, Carl L. – Contemporary School Psychology, 2021
Behavior rating scales are frequently used to assess social-emotional behaviors of children. While broadband behavior rating scales often measure similarly named constructs, it is unclear how consistently different instruments measure those constructs. Head Start teachers completed the preschool versions of the Behavior Assessment System for…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Interrater Reliability, Child Behavior, Behavior Rating Scales
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Draganoudi, Aikaterini; Kaliampos, George; Lavidas, Konstantinos; Ravanis, Konstantinos – South African Journal of Education, 2023
In the last 30 years, 4 distinct theoretical approaches have been described for early childhood science education. The approaches are, empiricist, Piagetian, socio-cognitive and socio-cultural. Drawing on the differences among these approaches regarding the theoretical framework adopted in teaching, the role that is assigned to the teacher during…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Teaching Methods, Natural Sciences, Science Instruction
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Duran Yilmaz, Ayse; Ömeroglu, Esra – Southeast Asia Early Childhood, 2023
This study aimed to create and validate a scale for early childhood educators that reflects the cultural sensitivity of educators in classrooms. We collected data from 403 early childhood educators in Adiyaman, Turkey. Experts' assessments were consulted for content validity, and EFA and CFA were done for the reliability and validity of the scale.…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Measures (Individuals), Test Construction, Test Validity
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Daryl Greenfield; Betty Zan; Christine McWayne; Michael Harris; Alexandra Alexander; Wendy Ochoa; Jayanthi Mistry – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
Worldwide, there is growing recognition of the importance of science in early childhood education. Doing science or, more formally, "science and engineering practices," is acknowledged as a critical component of early science education that requires support from the adults in children's lives. Moreover, engaging in science practices…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Evaluation, Test Reliability, Validity
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Gözüm, Ali Ibrahim Can; Metin, Sermin; Uzun, Halil; Karaca, Nezahat Hamiden – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2023
Distance education has added a different dimension to the change in the use of ICT (information and communication technologies) in the early childhood education paradigms in recent years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These changes before and during the pandemic will also affect education in the post-pandemic period and this is why research in…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Educational Technology, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Vu, Thuy Thi; Dinh, Viet-Hung – European Journal of Educational Research, 2022
The role of preschool teachers in supporting children's language development is unquestionably substantial. To ensure the quality of preschool teachers' performance in this specific task, various assessing instruments have been developed and justified in recent years. This study joins such efforts by investigating a new scale based on the…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Teacher Competencies, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
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