Guide to Analyzing and Interpreting ECERS-3 Data

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Early childhood is a crucial stage in a child's life, and aspects of the environment in the physical, social-emotional, cognitive, and health and safety domains all play important roles in shaping children's development during these early years. Having a valid and reliable measure of the quality of these aspects of children's care settings is critical. The Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (ECERS-3) is the leading research-based instrument for examining these influential global factors that directly impact children in early childhood environments. In this new guide, readers will find an in-depth description of both the conceptual model underlying the ECERS-3 and innovative ways of analyzing data for a fuller understanding of what can be done with the scale and why it is integral to the evaluation of early care and education. The authors analyze a large database of classroom observations to help ECERS-3 users better understand, interpret, and utilize their own findings. Readers will also see how components of their ECERS-3 data relate to one another, within and across subscales, and within the scale as a whole.A Guide to Analyzing and Interpreting ECERS-3 Data will assist program directors, agency administrators, preK–K teaching coaches/mentors, school principals, researchers, and others who use the ECERS-3 to more successfully document, interpret, and analyze the quality of essential influential factors in an early learning setting. This resource will help guide program improvement initiatives with insight into what is needed for children's development and learning.Book Features: Provides a framework for thinking about how early childhood care and education learning environments fit into the larger picture of influences on children's development.Presents a theory of change that combines understanding how children learn and develop with how early education and care affect long-term outcomes.Analyzes what ECERS-3 data looks like for a large sample of classrooms and by different child and teacher characteristics.Includes full color tables and figures illuminating the data analysis of the classroom observations.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-11-16
Mått:158 x 229 x 6 mm
Vikt:190 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:128
Förlag:Teachers' College Press
Medarbetare:Debi Mathias
ISBN:9780807766071

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Richard M. Clifford, Ph.D., is senior scientist emeritus at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and past president of NAEYC.Noreen Yazejian, Ph.D., is senior research scientist at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Wonkyung Jang, M.S., is a doctoral candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education.Dari Jigjidsuren, Ph.D., MSW, MSPH, is an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Mississippi State University.

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ContentsForeword Debi Mathias vAcknowledgments ix1. Introduction 1Purpose of the Guide 2Early Childhood Learning Environments:A Conceptual Framework 2Views of How ChildrenLearn and Develop 4Theory of Change 6Assessing Quality 92. ECERS-3 Background 11Early Work in Assessing Learning Environments 11ECERS Revisions Process 13Administration 16Overview of the Subscales 16Comparability 18Validity and Reliability of Previous Versions 223. Summarizing ECERS-3 Data Descriptively 24Sample 24Statistical Methods 24Describing Items 27Describing Subscales 32Other Summary Scores 364. Describing Statistical Relationships 40Differences Between Groups or Conditions 40Summary 445. Examining Predictors of Quality: Structural Equations Modeling 45Head Start 45Methods 46Associations Among Quality and Three Features of Classrooms 47Applications and Implications 506. Examining Predictors of Quality: Hierarchical Linear Models 52Model 1: Unconditional Model 52Model 2: Random-InterceptModel 53Sensitivity Analysis Using LASSO 567. Examining Groups With Shared Characteristics 618. Special Issues 64Use in Quality Rating and Improvement Systems and Other High-Stakes Applications 64Race, Ethnicity, and Equity 67Serving Children With Disabilities 68National Norms 69International Uses 71Safe and Healthy Environments 729. Future Work 73Exploring Alternative Structures in the ECERS-3 73Ensuring Adequate Consideration of Equity and Diversity in Early Childhood Environments 74Focusing on Specific Features of Programming: Extensions of the ECERS-3 75Expanding International Use 76Measuring Associations With Children’s Outcomes 7610. Conclusions 77Appendix: Supplementary Analyses 81Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition 81Item Response Theory: Rasch Model Without Covariates 83Differential Item Functioning 85Bibliography 89Index 107About the Authors 117