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ERIC Number: ED565264
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Jan
Pages: 271
Abstractor: ERIC
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Measuring Outcomes for Young Children and Their Families. Outcome Indicators for Everyday Kids, Everyday Lives: A Vision for Pennsylvania's Children
Trivette, Carol M.; Dunst, Carl J.
Orelena Hawks Puckett Institute
This monograph includes the final report for a project funded by the Pennsylvania Developmental Disabilities Council for "Measuring Outcomes for Children" (2008 RFP). The goal of the project was to "develop and demonstrate the effectiveness of an instrument designed to measure life outcomes of children with disabilities being serving by multiple child serving systems." The instrument and scales that were developed include indicators for measuring the life circumstances of young children and their families that were identified as valued outcomes in the "Monitoring Outcomes for Children project" which was the predecessor to the project described in this monograph. This monograph includes a description of the activities that were used to develop outcome indicators and the scales that were developed to measure valued outcomes identified by parents, practitioners, and others in the Monitoring Outcomes for Children project. The monograph also includes descriptions of lessons learned and recommendations for next steps for measuring and improving the life circumstances of young children and their families. The following attachments are included: (1) Everyday Kids, Everyday Lives Survey; (2) Everyday Kids, Everyday Lives Scale Survey; (3) Everyday Kids, Everyday Lives Field-Test Evaluation; (4) Parent and Child Everyday Experiences Scale; (5) Everyday Kids, Everyday Lives Scale; (6) Family and Child Early Experiences Scales; (7) Code Manual for the Measuring Outcomes for Children Scale Items; and (8) Excel Data Files for the Measuring Outcomes for Children Scale Items. The following are appended: (1) Everyday Kids, Everyday Lives Major Themes and Codes; (2) Everyday Kids, Everyday Lives Delphi Study Items and Corresponding Everyday Kids, Everyday Lives Themes and Codes; (3) Everyday Kids, Everyday Lives Modified Delphi Process Survey Results; (4) Everyday Kids, Everyday Lives Field-Test Social Validity Results; (5) Psychometric Properties of the Parent and Child Everyday Experiences Scale; (6) Confirmatory Factor Analyses of the Parent and Child Everyday Experiences Scale Items; and (7) Profiles of the Parents' and Children's Everyday Experiences According to Selected Parent, Child and Residence Variables.
Orelena Hawks Puckett Institute. 18A Regent Park Boulevard, Asheville, NC 28806. Tel: 800-824-1182; Tel: 828-255-0470; Fax: 828-255-9035; Web site: http://www.puckett.org
Publication Type: Tests/Questionnaires; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Orelena Hawks Puckett Institute; Pennsylvania Developmental Disabilities Council (PADDC)
Identifiers - Location: Pennsylvania
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