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LoCasale-Crouch, Jennifer; DeCoster, Jamie; Cabell, Sonia; Hamre, Bridget; Downer, Jason; Pianta, Robert – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2012
Over a decade ago, Bredekamp asserted (1996) that the field of early childhood education lacked a research base to document the effectiveness of approaches to producing highly skilled and effective early educators. The National Center for Research in Early Childhood Education's (NCRECE) Course and MyTeachingPartner (MTP) Coaching were developed to…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Faculty Development, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Student Relationship
Karoly, Lynn A. – RAND Corporation, 2014
Care Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRISs) have advanced and matured, a number of states and localities have undertaken evaluations to validate the systems. Such efforts stem from the desire to ensure that the system is designed and operating in the ways envisioned when the system was established. Given that a central component in a QRIS…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Program Effectiveness, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality
Banta, Trudy W.; And Others – 1979
This paper describes an evaluation of the Child Health and Development Project (CHDP), a home-based early intervention program designed to promote parenting skills and to foster the physical, social, and intellectual development of children from birth through 6 years. The project served families from six counties in East Tennessee through funding…
Descriptors: Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Health Services, Home Programs