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Direct linkVarmuza, Petr; Perlman, Michal; Falenchuk, Olesya – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2021
In the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) sector there is a move to reduce oversight costs by reducing the frequency of quality assessments in providers who score highly consistently across time. However, virtually nothing is known about the stability of ECEC quality assessments over time. Using a validated measure of overall classroom…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Care Centers, Educational Quality
Download full textMcCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership at National Louis University, 2022
International comparative education studies contribute to improvements in education systems by highlighting strengths and identifying challenges found in the different cultural contexts of different countries. Comparative early childhood education (ECE) studies provide new ideas and insights into how local and national systems can be improved.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality
Kaçan, Maide Orçan; Ata, Seda; Karayol, Seda – European Journal of Educational Sciences, 2021
A quality preschool education plays a key role in achieving its objectives. To benefit from this effect of preschool education in a positive way, countries should investigate education systems and the educational methods and practices of other countries so as to understand the problems of education and the factors affecting it. This brings about…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Comparative Education, Educational Quality, Kindergarten
Tang, Jing; Hallam, Rena A.; Francis, Jessica; Sheffler, Kristy – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2020
Background: A Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) is one widespread method to provide a framework for quality improvement in early care and education. However, there is little research examining the relationship between QRIS supports and quality changes in family child care programs. Objective: This study aims to examine the associations…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Educational Improvement, Child Care
Penny Levickis; Dan Cloney; Maude Roy-Vallières; Patricia Eadie – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: This study aims to extend our knowledge regarding contributions of educator--child interactions to child language outcomes by examining the extent to which specific dimensions of the CLASS observational tool of educator-child interactions are associated with child language abilities, utilizing data from an Australian…
Descriptors: Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Verbal Ability, Foreign Countries
Neitzel, Jennifer; Early, Diane; Sideris, John; LaForrett, Doré; Abel, Michael B.; Soli, Margaret; Davidson, Dawn L.; Haboush-Deloye, Amanda; Hestenes, Linda L.; Jenson, Denise; Johnson, Cindy; Kalas, Jennifer; Mamrak, Angela; Masterson, Marie L.; Mims, Sharon U.; Oya, Patti; Philson, Bobbi; Showalter, Megan; Warner-Richter, Mallory; Kortright Wood, Jill – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2019
The Early Childhood Environment Rating Scales, including the "Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale--Revised" (Harms et al., 2005) and the "Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale, Third Edition" (Harms et al., 2015) are the most widely used observational assessments in early childhood learning environments. The most recent…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality, Scoring
Siraj, Iram; Howard, Steven J.; Kingston, Denise; Neilsen-Hewett, Cathrine; Melhuish, Edward C.; de Rosnay, Marc – Australian Educational Researcher, 2019
This study examines associations between Australia's regulatory ratings of quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC)--the National Quality Standard (NQS)--and two research-based quality rating scales. The analytic sample consisted of 257 ECEC services across three Australian states. Results indicated (1) modest positive associations…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality, Child Care
Kirby, Gretchen; Caronongan, Pia; Burwick, Andrew; Monahan, Shannon; Poznyak, Dmitriy; Schulte, Theresa; Lyskawa, Julia; Kelly, Annalee – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2022
The goals of the Implementation and Cost of High Quality Early Care and Education (ECE-ICHQ) are to (1) produce technically sound, systematic measures of the implementation and costs of education and care in center-based settings that serve children from birth to age 5; (2) produce implementation and cost measures to examine the variation in ECE…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Measurement, Costs, Educational Quality
Naesby, Torben – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
The aim of this study is to investigate quality in Danish preschools and to establish whether disadvantaged children benefit from preschool attendance in an inclusive perspective? The conceptual framework of the research project rests on bio-eco-systems theory [Bronfenbrenner & Morris, 2006. "The Bioecological model of human development.…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Educational Quality, Rating Scales, Preschool Education
Vist, Torill; Os, Ellen – Research Studies in Music Education, 2020
This article presents results from a large-scale Norwegian study that examines the quality of early childhood education and care, using the research tool ITERS-R. Although ITERS-R consists of 39 items, this article focuses solely on results within music education in Item 18. Music and movement. According to ITERS-R, results from 206 toddler day…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Toddlers, Child Care
Sharon Wolf; Elisabetta Aurino; Noelle Suntheimer; Esinam A. Avornyo; Edward Tsinigo; Jere R. Behrman; J. Lawrence Aber – Grantee Submission, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic led to extended school closures globally. Access to remote learning opportunities during this time was vastly unequal within and across countries. Higher-quality early childhood education (ECE) can improve later academic outcomes, but longer-term effects during crises are unknown. This study provides the first experimental…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality, COVID-19, Pandemics
Telfer, N. A.; Kaplan, R.; Yazejian, N.; Iruka, I. – FPG Child Development Institute, 2022
This report summarizes themes that emerged from six listening sessions held in April 2022 with Black and Latine Pre-K teachers, directors, and technical assistance providers. The purpose of the listening sessions was to understand participants' perceptions of the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (ECERS-3) and to gauge the extent to which…
Descriptors: Equal Education, African American Teachers, Hispanic Americans, Minority Group Teachers
Modeste, Janis Monrose – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this correlational study, which took place in a Central Florida school district, was to investigate the relationship between the quality of the early childhood education (ECE) programs and students' kindergarten readiness scores. Vygotsky's sociocultural theory, which states that a child's environment, culture, and language are…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten, School Readiness, Scores
Garrity, Sarah M.; Longstreth, Sascha L.; Salcedo-Potter, Nina S.; Staub, April – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2016
The prevalence of preschool expulsion, coupled with racial disparities in expulsion rates and the potential long term negative effects of challenging behaviors in the early years, has created an urgent need to build early childhood systems to address these issues. The teaching and guidance policy essentials checklist (TAG-PEC) has been developed…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality, Check Lists
Early, Diane M.; Sideris, John; Neitzel, Jennifer; LaForett, Doré R.; Nehler, Chelsea G. – Grantee Submission, 2018
The Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale-Third Edition (ECERS-3) is the latest version of one of the most widely used observational tools for assessing the quality of classrooms serving preschool-aged children. This study was the first assessment of its factor structure and validity, an important step given its widespread use. An ECERS-3…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality, Factor Structure
