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High stakes quality measures in early care and education

GORDON, RACHEL A.

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Title
High stakes quality measures in early care and education
Author(s)
GORDON, RACHEL A.
Issue Date
2016-08-31
Keyword(s)
  • research
  • quality
  • child
  • programs
  • readiness
  • stakes
  • reimbursement
  • teachers
Abstract
"Early childhood education has seen increased high-stakes use of observational measures of child care and preschool quality in recent years. Scoring above or below a particular cut-score on these measures now has substantial financial and reputational consequences for child-care centers and preschools. This policy brief summarizes a study of the effectiveness of these observational assessments that reveals problems that have important implications for the high-stakes use of the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale, Revised (ECERS-R). A companion journal article on this subject by the author and her collaborators can be found in AERA Open, a journal of the American Educational Research Association, published by Sage Journals. That article is titled ""Examining the category functioning of the ECERS-R across eight data sets."""
Publisher
Institute of Government & Public Affairs
Type of Resource
text
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