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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: Findings from the 2015 statewide implementation of the North Carolina K-3 formative assessment process : kindergarten entry assessment
Author: Lambert, Richard, Ferrara, Angela
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Early childhood education
Description: During the first 60 instructional days of the 2015-2016 academic year, the Office of Early Learning (OEL) at the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction implemented a new formative assessment process in all kindergarten classrooms in the s...

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: Findings from the 2014 North Carolina kindergarten entry formative assessment pilot
Author: Lambert, Richard, Ferrara, Angela
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Early childhood education
Description: In response to the requirements of the Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge Grant and a mandate from the North Carolina (NC) State Legislature requiring the development of a kindergarten entry assessment, NC Superintendent June Atkinson organi...

Title: Findings from the 2016-2017 North Carolina K-3 formative assessment process implementation case study
Author: Ferrara, Angela, Lin, Van-Kim, Lambert, Richard
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Early childhood education
Description: The 2016-2017 academic year marks the second year of statewide implementation of the North Carolina K-3 Formative Assessment Process: Kindergarten Entry Assessment (FAPKEA). The assessment, developed and implemented by the Office of Early Learning...

Title: Evaluation of the effects of creative curriculum on classroom quality and child outcomes in Head Start
Author: Lambert, Richard, O’Donnell, Megan, Abbott-Shim, Martha
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, Education--Curricula
Description: Classroom quality and child outcomes were measured in Head Start classrooms across two separate sites in the southeastern United States. The classrooms were randomly assigned to treatment and control conditions. The treatment teachers received tra...

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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 2022 evaluation of Freedom School partners in Charlotte, North Carolina
Author: Bottoms, Bryndle, Luce, Hannah, Villanueva, Kristin, Herrera, Leonardo
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Literacy--Study and teaching (Early childhood), Early childhood education
Description: Freedom School Partners is a six-week, literacy-rich, summer program that has served the Charlotte area since 2004. What began as a group of 100 scholars in one site, is now more than 400 scholars and includes twelve sites (www.freedomschoolpartne...

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 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: 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: 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: Evidence supporting the use of GOLD with kindergarten children
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: Examining the psychometric properties of the North Carolina Kindergartern Entry Assessment
Author: Lambert, Richard
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Early childhood education
Description: This report contains reliability and validity evidence for the North Carolina Kindergarten Entry Assessment system (KEA) using a statewide sample of kindergarten children. The KEA was designed as a formative, developmental, authentic, and criterio...