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Direct linkGarvis, Susanne; Sheridan, Sonja; Williams, Pia; Mellgren, Elisabeth – Early Child Development and Care, 2018
Quality in early childhood education is an important topic in many countries. Research suggests that high-quality preschool provides many long-term benefits for young children and society. How to measure early childhood quality however can be problematic. One approach has been the use of the Early Childhood Environmental Rating Scale (ECERS), an…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality
Neylon, Gerardine – Irish Educational Studies, 2014
This paper presents the findings of original research which applied the Early Childhood Environmental Rating Scale Extension (ECERS/E) four Curricular Subscales in 26 pre-schools throughout Ireland to measure and assess the provision of literacy, maths, science and environment, and diversity as follows: inadequate, minimal, good or excellent. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Educational Practices, Rating Scales
Download full textLa Paro, Karen M.; Thomason, Amy C.; Lower, Joanna K.; Kintner-Duffy, Victoria L.; Cassidy, Deborah J. – Early Childhood Research & Practice, 2012
The field of early childhood education continues to grapple with the issue of understanding quality in classrooms. The lack of clarity in definition (or conceptualization) and related ability to assess (or operationalize) quality has contributed to a reliance on the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (ECERS-R), which is often interpreted to…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Definitions, Young Children, Rating Scales
Sheridan, Sonja – 1995
The Lerum Competence Development Project seeks to develop a model for educator inservice training to improve the quality of day care. Lerum is a small community outside Goteborg, Sweden, with approximately 35,000 inhabitants. The expansion of childcare provision within the community necessitates support of the teachers because of economic and…
Descriptors: Child Care Occupations, Day Care, Day Care Centers, Educational Change
