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Title: Growth norms for the Teaching Strategies GOLD Assessment System
Author: Lambert, Richard
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, Educational evaluation
Description: The Technical Manual for the Teaching Strategies GOLD Assessment System (Lambert, Kim, Taylor, and McGee, 2010) contains norm tables for both raw and scale scores for each developmental domain that are based on a cross-sectional research design in...

Title: Hall House evaluation study final project
Author: Lambert, Richard, Britt, Heather
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, Temporary housing
Description: Hall House, a Charlotte Housing Authority property, was established to provide safe, transitional housing for 100 families of homeless children in Charlotte, NC from December 16, 2008 to June 30, 2009 at 426 N. Tryon St. Hall House was a collabora...

Title: MSP end of year three summative report
Author: Wang, Chuang, McGee, Jennifer, Lambert, Richard
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Mathematics--Curricula, Professional development for teachers
Description: This is a summative report based on Year Three data from the MSP Grant Project entitled, “Content Development for Investigations” (CoDE:I). The purpose of the MSP grant program was to develop standards-based elementary mathematics teachers by givi...

Title: MSP grant project CoDE:I year two summative report
Author: Wang, Chuang, McGee, Jennifer, Lambert, Richard
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Mathematics--Curricula, Professional development for teachers
Description: This is the second report based on Year Two data from the MSP Grant Project entitled, “Content Development for Investigations” (CoDE:I). The purpose of the MSP grant program was to develop standards-based elementary mathematics teachers by giving ...

Title: MSP grant project “Content Development for Investigations” (CoDE: I) year one summative report
Author: Lambert, Richard, Wang, Chuang, McGee, Jennifer
Subjects--Topical: Professional development for teachers, Educational evaluation
Description: The following report presents findings from the external evaluation of the MSP Grant Project entitled, “Content Development for Investigations” (CoDE:I).

Title: Overview of factor analyses conducted using scores from the GOLD Assessment System
Author: Lambert, Richard, Kim, Do-Hong, Burts, Diane
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Early childhood education--Evaluation
Description: Our research team has conducted numerous factor analyses over many years using data collected using the GOLD assessment system. These analyses have been conducted to both examine and confirm the underlying structure, or dimensionality, of the info...

Title: PKKTPAI teacher evaluation system (PreK-K Teachers' Performance Appraisal Instrument) evaluator's guide
Author: Lambert, Richard, Rowland, Bobbie, Bird, Jim, Ullrich, Annette
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, Teachers--Rating of
Description: The purpose of the PKKTPAI Evaluator’s Guide is to inform those involved in the teacher evaluation process, which is carried out through the North Carolina (NC) Office of School Readiness, Teacher Licensure Unit (OSR/TLU) . It contains step-by-ste...

Title: Practitioner perspectives on the implementation of the North Carolina Kindergarten Entry Assessment
Author: Holcomb, Scott, Li, Zhi, Ferrara, Angela, Lambert, Richard
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Curriculum-based assessment
Description: This study gathered information from practitioners on their perspectives of experiences implementing the North Carolina Kindergarten Entry Assessment (NC KEA). Initially, practitioners were invited to complete an online survey asking them to rate ...

Title: Recommendations for the implementation of a statewide formative assessment process
Author: Lambert, Richard, Ferrara, Angela, Holcomb, Scott
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Early childhood education
Description: Early childhood assessments should be used to guide teaching and learning, identify students that may potentially need interventions, and improve educational programs (NAEYC and NAECS/SDE, 2003). Kindergarten Entry Assessments (KEA) are implemente...

Title: Resource manual for administrators and principals supervising and evaluating teachers of young children
Author: Lambert, Richard, de Kort-Young, Anne Marie, Rowland, Bobbie, Vestal, Amanda
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Early childhood education, Elementary school administration
Description: This Manual is a practical guide especially created for early childhood principals, administrators, teachers, and others directly involved in providing appropriate, high-quality preschool and kindergarten programs for young children in both public...

Title: Resource manual for administrators and principals supervising and evaluating teachers of young children
Author: Lambert, Richard, Rowland, Bobbie, Taylor, Heather, Wheeler, Cindy
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, Teachers--Rating of
Description: This Manual is a practical guide especially created for early childhood principals, administrators, teachers, and others who are directly involved in providing high-quality preschool and kindergarten programs for young children in both public and ...

Title: Social studies under siege : examining policy and teacher-level factors associated with elementary social studies marginalization
Author: Heafner, Tina, Fitchett, Paul, Lambert, Richard
Subjects--Topical: Social sciences--Study and teaching (Elementary), Elementary school teachers
Description: Utilizing data from National Center for Educational Statistics Schools and Staffing Surveys, researchers examined the association between various teacher-level factors and state policy-level indicators associated with reported elementary social st...

Title: Technical manual (2nd edition) for the Teaching Strategies GOLD Assessment System
Author: Lambert, Richard, Kim, Do-Hong, Burts, Diane
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Educational tests and measurements--Evaluation
Description: The measurement properties of any new assessment instrument should be rigorously examined and the results made available to stakeholders.The first version of the technical manual for the Teaching Strategies GOLD Assessment System (Lambert, Kim, Ta...

Title: Technical manual (3rd edition) for the Teaching Strategies GOLD Assessment System
Author: Lambert, Richard, Kim, Do-Hong, Burts, Diane
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Early childhood education--Evaluation
Description: Teaching Strategies GOLD Assessment System (GOLD) is a formative assessment system that has been designed and validated for use with young children ages birth to kindergarten. The measure yields information that is rooted in the ongoing work of te...

Title: Technical manual for the Teaching Strategies GOLD Assessment (2nd edition)
Author: Lambert, Richard
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Early childhood education
Description: Teaching Strategies GOLD is a formative assessment intended to assess the whole child from birth through third grade. It enables teachers to collect documentation on an ongoing basis to identify the best placements for individual children across a...

Title: Technical manual for the Teaching Strategies GOLD Assessment System
Author: Lambert, Richard, Kim, Do-Hong, Taylor, Heather, McGee, Jennifer
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, Educational evaluation
Description: Overall, the Teaching Strategies GOLD assessment system appears to be yield highly reliable scores as indicated by both the classical and Rasch reliability statistics. Results of the factor analyses showed that the ratings loaded onto the construc...

Title: Technical manual for the teaching strategies GOLD assessment system : birth through third grade edition
Author: Lambert, Richard
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Early childhood education
Description: Teaching Strategies GOLD Assessment System (GOLD) is a formative assessment system that has been designed and extensively validated for use with young children ages birth to kindergarten. For a thorough review of the process of developing the meas...

Title: The Early Educator Support, Licensure, and Professional Development (EESLPD) Office conceptual framework : a narrative describing supporting early childhood educators as part of the North Carolina teacher evaluation process
Author: Taylor, Heather, Vestal, Amanda, Lambert, Richard
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Early childhood education
Description: The components included in this conceptual framework describe the types of supports and resources provided by the EESLPD Office to guide North Carolina (NC) Birth through Kindergarten (B – K) Early Childhood Educators (ECEs) who work in public and...

Title: The development of a systematic approach to evaluating early childhood educators using the North Carolina teacher evaluation process
Author: Lambert, Richard, Holcomb, Scott, Bottoms, Bryndle, Vestal, Amanda
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Early childhood teachers, Teachers--Rating of
Description: This technical report serves as a guide to the systematic approach to early childhood teacher evaluation process that is implemented by the Early Educator Support Offices at University of North Carolina at Charlotte and East Carolina University. T...

Title: The developmental continuum assessment system for ages 3 to 5 : the assessment component of the Creative Curriculum for Preschool
Author: Lambert, Richard
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, Education--Curricula
Description: The Creative Curriculum for Preschool (CC) is the leading curricular model used by Head Start programs, according to a survey by the National Head Start Association (2000). CC is used by 39.1% of the programs, the High/Scope curriculum is used by ...