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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Students' Perceptions of Early Childhood Program Quality According to the National Association for the Education of Young Children Standards
Author: Javidi, Farhad
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Community colleges--Study and teaching, Educational evaluation, Early childhood education
Description: The purpose of the study was to evaluate the extent to which one community college was preparing its early childhood education students for employment in the field according to the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) p...

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 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: 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 ...