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Title: "I can, but I can't": Kindergarten teacher perceptions of self-efficacy and agency in their use of formative assessment in the current high-stakes accountability climate
Author: Ferrara, Angela
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, Education and state, Ethnology
Description: Early childhood formative assessment (FA) is a process by which teachers gather data about their students’ knowledge and skills across the five domains of early childhood development in order to scaffold and support their students’ unique learning...

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: Assessing the Predictive Sensitivity of Early Childhood Screening Variables to Improve Pre-K Eligibility Decisions
Author: Gadaire, Andrew
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, Developmental psychology
Description: High-quality early childhood education, such as pre-kindergarten (pre-k) can help children develop the academic and social-emotional skills they need to succeed in school. Pre-k can be especially important for students at risk of starting elementa...

Title: Coaching in Early Intervention: Practitioners' Perceptions of the Training and Implementation Process
Author: Faryadi, Lisa
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Early childhood education
Description: Recommended and best practices support the use of coaching strategies in promoting child and family outcomes in Early Intervention (EI) programs. However, practitioners have found it challenging to shift to a coaching approach with families, and t...

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: EARLY INTERVENTION PROVIDERS’ EXPERIENCES AND PERCEPTIONS OF NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS
Author: Stimpson, Katherine
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Early childhood education
Description: The term natural environment has been a key component in the implementation of Part C early intervention, formerly known as Part H, since its inception in 1986; however, as Part C was reauthorized in 1997 and again in 2004, a clear definition of n...

Title: ESTABLISHING CONNECTIONS WITH MINDFUL INTERACTIONS: IMPACT OF PARENT EDUCATION ON PERCEPTIONS OF SELF-AWARENESS AND MINDFUL PARENTING PRACTICES
Author: Barrett, Amanda
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Early childhood education
Description: ABSTRACTAMANDA LOUISE BARRETT. Establishing connections with mindful interactions: Impact of parent education on perceptions of self-awareness and mindful parenting practices. (Under direction of DR. CYNTHIA BAUGHAN) This study examined the impact...

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: Fathers' Perspectives on their Level of Involvement in Their Child's Early Autism Services
Author: Gooden, Chelsea
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Early childhood education
Description: The aim of this exploratory study was to examine father’s perspectives on their level of involvement in early autism services, as well as their feelings regarding how well the service providers are doing to include them in these services. A total ...

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: IMPACT OF SOCIAL EMOTIONAL EARLY LEARNING CURRICULUM ON PRESCHOOLERS’ EMPATHY SKILLS
Author: Johnson, Sarah
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Education, Early childhood education
Description: The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of a social emotional learning program on preschoolers’ empathy skills. Specifically, the study examined the effect of the Second Step Social-Emotional Skills for Early Learning empathy unit on p...

Title: Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Families of Young Exceptional Children
Author: Haines, Sarah
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Early childhood education
Description: Families of young exceptional children (young children with identified delays or disabilities) have different life experiences, characteristics, and stressors than families of typically developing children. This makes the study of these families, ...