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Katz, Lilian – Phi Delta Kappan, 1994
Outlines five perspectives contributing to an overall assessment of early childhood program quality: the top-down, bottom-up, outside-inside, inside, and ultimate (community and societal) perspectives. Use of multiple evaluation perspectives requires high inference levels for assessors and raises accountability issues. Unfortunately, appallingly…
Descriptors: Accountability, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality, Evaluation Criteria
