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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 Effects of Prekindergarten on Kindergarten School Readiness as Measured by Reading Scores at Two Title I Schools
Author: Harris, Sharone
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education
Description: This research study examined the effectiveness of prekindergarten (PK) on kindergarten school readiness. The parents or guardians of kindergarten students at two Title I schools located in an urban school district in the southeastern United States...

Title: The association between pre-kindergarten teachers' use of classroom strategies and students' social-emotional development
Author: Simmons, Caitlin
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education
Description: Considerable research has documented the effects that high-quality preschool programs can have on children’s early learning and cognitive development, including language, literacy, reading and math skills (Magnuson, Meyers, Ruhm, & Waldfogel, 2004...

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 ...

Title: The developmental continuum for infants, toddlers and twos assessment system : the assessment component of the Creative Curriculum for Infants, Toddlers and Twos
Author: Lambert, Richard
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, Education--Curricula
Description: The Creative Curriculum for Infants, Toddlers, and Twos is an extension of The Creative Curriculum for preschool children. As such, it is a comprehensive and integrative curricular model for early childhood programs. It is similarly rooted in a br...

Title: The literacy skills of returning and first-year children in Head Start programs
Author: Lambert, Richard
Subjects--Topical: Literacy--Study and teaching (Early childhood), Literacy programs, Early childhood education
Description: The benefits of preschool, especially for low-income children, have been a major research and policymaking question in the last decades. As more children are starting preschool at the age of 3, and, with the development of programs like Early Head...

Title: The measurement properties of the Teaching Strategies GOLD assessment system : preliminary results following the winter assessment checkpoint April 2010
Author: Lambert, Richard, Kim, Do-Hong
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Early childhood education
Description: Overall, the GOLD assessment system appeared to be highly reliable as indicated by the reliability statistics. Results of the factor analysis show that with very few exceptions, the items loaded onto the constructs intended by the test development...

Title: Transforming Early Childhood Education Through Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy
Author: Ardrey, Tameka
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education
Description: Low-income African American children have been identified among the majority of children without access to high-quality early education (Barnett, Carolan & Johns, 2013). Consequently, they lack the necessary skills to successfully navigate the sch...

Title: Using the Teaching Strategies GOLD Assessment System with the creative curriculum to measure child growth and development
Author: Lambert, Richard
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, Educational evaluation
Description: Teaching Strategies GOLD uses guided observation to support teachers’ use of high quality teaching through efficient documentation strategies. The validity and reliability for this assessment tool has been examined and confirmed through normative ...

Title: “It sometimes heals, but it sometimes hurts”; Exploring the issues facing first-generation and immigrant staff caring for immigrant youth in an after-school program
Author: Cronin, Claire
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Multicultural education, Counseling psychology, Early childhood education
Description: Coming from countries across the world, immigrants have chosen to start a new life in the United States, and become part of the fabric that makes up American society. Today, immigrant children face a unique set of challenges and hardships includin...

Title: “MY BABY COULD LIVE THE BEST LIFE”: FAMILY PERSPECTIVES ON SERVICES FOLLOWING A PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS OF DOWN SYNDROME
Author: Martin, Zachary
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Education, Early childhood education
Description: Screenings and diagnostic tests provide individuals the opportunity to receive a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome as early as the first trimester of pregnancy. Post-diagnosis, families are presented with opportunities for services and supports ...