State curricula in English Language Arts are calling for grammar instruction to be folded into the teaching of writing, linguistic diversity / identity, and stylistic var[...]

This report contains reliability and validity evidence for the North Carolina Kindergarten Entry Assessment system (KEA) using a statewide sample of kindergarten children[...]

This technical report serves as a guide to the systematic approach to early childhood teacher evaluation process that is implemented by the Early Educator Support Offices[...]

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 [...]

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 implement[...]

This Manual is a practical guide especially created for early childhood principals, administrators, teachers, and others directly involved in providing appropriate, high-[...]

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[...]

This report is focused on an evaluation of the measurement properties of the scale scores and teacher ratings that result from the use of the GOLD assessment system with [...]

Our research team has conducted numerous factor analyses over many years using data collected using the GOLD assessment system. These analyses have been conducted to bot[...]

The 2016-2017 academic year marks the second year of statewide implementation of the North Carolina K-3 Formative Assessment Process: Kindergarten Entry Assessment (FAPKE[...]