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Fisk, Charles L.; Harring, Jeffrey R.; Shen, Zuchao; Leite, Walter; Suen, King Yiu; Marcoulides, Katerina M. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2023
Sensitivity analyses encompass a broad set of post-analytic techniques that are characterized as measuring the potential impact of any factor that has an effect on some output variables of a model. This research focuses on the utility of the simulated annealing algorithm to automatically identify path configurations and parameter values of omitted…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Algorithms, Simulation, Evaluation Methods
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Lucy Wood – New Zealand Journal of Teachers' Work, 2024
This research overview outlines the catalyst for a proposed research project which stems from an interest in trauma and its effects, particularly in early childhood. It argues that there should be a stronger focus on Trauma Informed Practice in Aotearoa New Zealand, with two foci-firstly in ITE programmes, empowering graduating kaiako with the…
Descriptors: Trauma Informed Approach, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Practices
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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
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Karlsudd, Peter – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2023
This article is based on studies carried out within the "Young children's learning" research education programme. This undertaking involved five graduate students, all recruited from the Swedish preschool system. The licentiate thesis makes up the final product of their education programme, and the focus of each candidate's licentiate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Special Education, Documentation
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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
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Aya, Fujiwara; Shigeki, Sonoyama – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2023
Background: Kindergartens and other preschool facilities provide preschool children with an important setting for social interactions. Social interaction supports the development of social skills in children and is associated with better subsequent performance in arithmetic. Objective: This study reviewed the literature to; (a) identify targets…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Preschool Education, Child Care Centers, Literature Reviews
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)
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Xingyuan Gao; Jianping Shen; Megan Russell Johnson; Huilan Krenn; Erika Burkhardt – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2023
In this article, we intend to illustrate the notion, practice, and evaluation methods and results related to building an effective, efficient, and equitable early care and education (ECE) system. We point out the dominant approach, in practice and evaluation, of focusing on a single ECE program to improve ECE, propose a model of developing an ECE…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Educational Development, Educational Assessment
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Meaghan 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
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Gunn, Alexandra C.; White, E. Jayne; Williams, Ngaroma – New Zealand Journal of Teachers' Work, 2022
While much has been done to advance narrative assessment practice in the early years, less attention has been granted to the role of the image in this pursuit. As a consequence, the purposes, value and strategic use of images (photographs, videos, visual metaphors etc.) in foregrounding learning of young children are not well understood. This…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Visual Aids, Evaluation Methods
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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
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Su, Yongqiang; Chen, Xi; Huo, Michelle Ru Yun; Gan, Yan; Zhang, Jiawen; Li, Hong – Reading Research Quarterly, 2023
In the present study, we designed a dynamic measure to assess emerging morphological awareness in Chinese children and examined its concurrent and longitudinal relations with character recognition. The initial question of the dynamic assessment of morphological awareness (DAMA) task asked children to judge whether the first morphemes in a pair of…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Morphemes, Identification, Character Recognition
Elizabeth Burr; Jamey Burho; Alyssa Perez – WestEd, 2023
To improve access to high-quality early childhood education, California has made historic investments in Universal Prekindergarten (UPK), including the California State Preschool Program (CSPP). The state's UPK initiative elevates the importance of multilingualism and the early identification of disabilities in children. This report offers…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers, Multilingualism
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Byrd, Kelly O.; Giles, Rebecca McMahon – SRATE Journal, 2023
The perception of self-efficacy introduced by Albert Bandura's social cognitive theory is defined as a person's view of their capacity to organize and carry out the activities necessary for success in a specific situation. The most effective mathematics teachers believe that they are a capable and important influence on their students'…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Self Efficacy, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Teachers
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Delia Leuenberger; Elisabeth Moser Opitz; Noemi Gloor – Journal of Numerical Cognition, 2024
Computation competence (CC) in simple addition and subtraction using non-counting (NC) strategies is an important learning objective in Grade 1 mathematics but many children, especially low achievers in mathematics, struggle to acquire these skills. To provide these students with the support they need, it is important to have valid and reliable…
Descriptors: Computation, Mathematics Skills, Addition, Subtraction
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