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Barbu, Otilia C.; Yaden, David B., Jr.; Levine-Donnerstein, Deborah; Marx, Ronald W. – AERA Open, 2015
This study examines the psychometric properties of two assessments of children's approaches to learning: the Devereux Early Childhood Assessment (DECA) and a 13-item approaches to learning rating scale (AtL) derived from the Arizona Early Learning Standards (AELS). First, we administered questionnaires to 1,145 randomly selected parents/guardians…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Kindergarten, Young Children, Rating Scales
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Barbu, Otilia C.; Marx, Ronald W.; Yaden, David B., Jr.; Levine-Donnerstein, Deborah – Education 3-13, 2016
This study examined a 13-item instrument measuring approaches to learning (AtL) as a component of school readiness in the context of early childhood socio-emotional development. Few instruments, limited to preschool teacher ratings, measure AtL among kindergarteners with short easy-to-use questionnaires. We investigated psychometric properties of…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, School Readiness, Measures (Individuals), Test Validity