Essential Organizational Supports for Early Education: The Development of a New Survey Tool to Measure Organizational Conditions. Survey Development Brief

Autor/inn/en	Ehrlich, Stacy B.; Pacchiano, Debra M.; Stein, Amanda G.; Luppescu, Stuart
Institution	Ounce of Prevention Fund; University of Chicago Consortium on School Research
Titel	Essential Organizational Supports for Early Education: The Development of a New Survey Tool to Measure Organizational Conditions. Survey Development Brief
Quelle	(2016), (32 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	978-0-9975073-0-0
Schlagwörter	Early Childhood Education; Early Experience; Disadvantaged; Teacher Surveys; Parent Surveys; Educational Quality; Achievement Gap; Outcome Measures; Organizational Theories; Test Reliability; Test Validity; Pilot Projects; Program Validation; Definitions; Program Development; Program Implementation; Pretesting; School Support; Fundamental Concepts; Illinois (Chicago) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Frühbeginn; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Organisationstheorie; Testreliabilität; Testvalidität; Pilot project; Modellversuch; Pilotprojekt; Begriffsbestimmung; Programmplanung; Vortest; Schulförderverein; Grundlagenplan; Konzept
Abstract	Decades of research evidence indicate that high-quality early education can positively affect the learning trajectories of disadvantaged young children. However, despite significant investments to improve what happens in the classroom, publicly funded pre-kindergarten programs continue to display instructional quality that is too weak to prepare children for kindergarten (Burchinal et al., 2010; Office of Head Start, Administration for Children & Families, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 2013, 2014, 2015a). In 2014, UChicago Consortium launched a partnership with The Ounce of Prevention Fund (Ounce) to explore how the measurement of the five essentials could be adapted and applied to early childhood settings in an effort to help the early childhood field measure organizational conditions and consider how these conditions influence classroom practices. This survey development brief documents the adaptation and refinement of the UChicago Consortium's K-12 Five Essentials survey for use in publicly-funded early education programs, including federally-funded Head Start, state-, and locally-funded programs that provide center-based services (not home-based services) to three- and four-year-old children. The resulting Five Essentials-Early Education consists of two surveys--one for early educators and one for parents--designed to capture indicators of processes occurring at the school or center level that, in prior research, have been linked to improvements in student learning. This brief encompasses the first two years of survey development. A validation study is currently underway, and researchers are investigating both the teacher and parent surveys to understand whether responses to these surveys are related to classroom and child outcomes across different settings and with different populations. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	University of Chicago Consortium on School Research. 1313 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637. Tel: 773-702-3364; Fax: 773-702-2010; Web site: http://consortium.uchicago.edu/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01