Technical Reports

This report outlines the results of an evaluation of the Freedom School Partners’ Children Defense Fund Freedom Schools© program in Charlotte, NC that took place during t[...]

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[...]

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 wa[...]

This study gathered information from practitioners on their perspectives of experiences implementing the North Carolina Kindergarten Entry Assessment (NC KEA). Initially,[...]

The validity of the Kappa coefficient of chance-corrected agreement has been questioned when the prevalence of specific rating scale categories is low and agreement betwe[...]

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 o[...]

Differences in personal characteristics, professional qualifications, and contextual factors for congruent and incongruent Black, Hispanic, and White teachers were invest[...]

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 / eth[...]

Early childhood assessments should be used to guide teaching and learning, identify students that may potentially need interventions, and improve educational programs (NA[...]

The validity of the Kappa coefficient of chance-corrected agreement has been questioned when the prevalence of specific rating scale categories is low and agreement betwe[...]