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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: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE TORQUE CAPABILITIES OF HIGH GEAR RATIO MAGNETIC GEARBOXES
Author: Li, Kang
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Early childhood education, Electromagnetism
Description: Mechanical gears can be as small as those in traditional mechanical watches or as large as those in mechanical marine turbines. They can be seen in almost all transportation tools, for example, bicycles, cars, trains and airplanes. Though they hav...

Title: Differences in teacher background and school structure by racial/ethnic congruence between teachers and students
Author: Lambert, Richard
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Early childhood education
Description: This investigation is a subset of a larger study (Fitchett et al., 2020; Lambert et al., 2020; McCarthy et al., 2020) of the relationship between a teacher’s racial / ethnic congruence with the students in their school and occupational stress. Pri...

Title: Differences in teacher background and school structure by racial/ethnic congruence between teachers and students
Author: Lambert, Richard, Fitchett, Paul
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Early childhood education
Description: Differences in personal characteristics, professional qualifications, and contextual factors for congruent and incongruent Black, Hispanic, and White teachers were investigated using data from the National Teacher and Principal Survey (nteachers=2...

Title: EFFECTS OF A PARENT IMPLEMENTED DIALOGIC PLAY STRATEGY ON EARLY LITERACY DEVELOPMENT OF LATINO PRESCHOOLERS AT RISK FOR LANGUAGE DELAYS
Author: Swart, Katherine
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Early childhood education
Description: A multiple probe across participants design was used to examine the effects of a parent implemented dialogic play strategy on early literacy development of Latino preschoolers at risk for language delays. Three preschool aged Latino children consi...

Title: Equipping parents to support their children’s education: The effects of Charlotte Bilingual Preschool’s Family Program
Author: Gadaire, Andrew
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, Psychology
Description: Charlotte Bilingual Preschool’s Family Program aims to equip parents to support their children’s education at home and at school by increasing parents’ educational engagement, promoting parenting best practices, developing families’ social capital...

Title: Evaluation of the Freedom Schools program in Charlotte, NC
Author: Lambert, Richard, Butts, Missy, Taylor, Bruce
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Early childhood education
Description: This report outlines the results of an evaluation of the Freedom Schools project as it was implemented in Charlotte, NC during the summer of 2017. The evaluation study was a collaborative project between the Center for Adolescent Literacies (CFAL)...

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: 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...

Title: Factors Related to the Use of Play Therapy Among Elementary School Counselors
Author: Van Horne, Jill
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology, Early childhood education, Mental health
Description: The purpose of this study was to examine variables that are related to elementary school counselors' use of play therapy in the elementary school setting. The specific variables explored were age, years of experience, workshop hours, graduate cour...

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 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: 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: 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: INVESTIGATION OF CONTENT-BASED TRAINING AND PRACTICE-BASED COACHING WITH TEACHERS OF LATINO PRESCHOOLERS WHO ARE DUAL LANGUAGE LEARNERS AT RISK FOR LANGUAGE DELAYS
Author: Godfrey-Hurrell, Jessica
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Early childhood education
Description: A multiple probe across teacher participants design was used to examine the effects of a professional development intervention that included content-based training and practice-based coaching on teacher implementation of interactive reading proced...

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: Preschool Pedagogy and Its Impact on Preschoolers' Attitudes Toward Learning
Author: Lounsbury, Karen
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, Education
Description: This qualitative study examined two preschool pedagogical approaches and the impact each had on students' attitudes toward learning. One preschool used A Beka curriculum, which is a direct instruction pedagogy. The other preschool used Creative Cu...

Title: QUALITY ASSURANCE AND RELIABILITY OF THE NORTH CAROLINA TEACHER EVALUATION PROCESS FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS
Author: Taylor, Heather
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, Teachers--Training of
Description: The North Carolina (NC) Teacher Evaluation Process (TEP) is used to evaluate Pre-K – 12th grade teachers. Early Childhood Educators (ECEs) who have obtained Birth - Kindergarten licensure are unique in that they work with children with and without...