Screening Tools

• Ages and Stages
  • A reliable and valid developmental, social/emotional screening tool for children from 1 month to 5 ½ years of age. ASQ uses a series of questionnaires to provide a view into the patterns of children's development.

Formative Assessment Tools

• Arnett (PDF)
• Work Sampling System
  • A reliable and valid research based authentic performance assessment system for children from PreK through grade 6. The WSS provides a framework for monitoring developmental growth to guide classroom instruction and children's progress through use of developmental checklists, collections of children's work and summaries of the information from these sources.
• High Scope Preschool COR
• Teaching Strategies GOLD
  • A reliable and valid authentic assessment system for children birth through kindergarten. Teaching Strategies Gold blends ongoing observation for all areas of development and leaning with intentional, focused, performance-assessment tasks.  It is a seamless system designed for use as part of meaningful everyday experiences in the classroom or program setting.
• Strengthening Families (PDF)

Program Evaluation Tools (including Adult/Child Interaction Assessment Tools)

• Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS)
  • The Classroom Assessment Scoring System is researched based observation tool used to help teachers and schools improve the effectiveness of classroom interactions.
• Environmental Rating Scale (ERS)
  • These are reliable and valid scales designed to assess process quality in an early childhood or school age care group.  Process quality is assessed primarily through observation and has been found to be more predictive of child outcomes than structural indicators such as staff to child ratio, group size, cost of care, and even type of care, for example child care center or family child care home.
    • SACERS: The School-Age Care Environment Rating Scale
    • FCCERS: The Family Child Care Environment Rating Scale
    • ITERS: The Infant/Toddler Environment Rating Scale
    • ECERS: The Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale
• Program Administration Scale (PAS)
  • Assesses quality in ten areas: human resources development, personnel cost and allocation, center operations, child assessment, fiscal management, program planning and evaluation, family partnerships, marketing and public relations, technology, and staff qualifications.  It is designed for early childhood program administrators, researchers, monitoring personnel, and quality enhancement facilitators, the PAS was constructed to complement the widely used environment rating scale.
• Business Administration Scale (BAS)
  • Measures the quality of provider-child interactions and the quality of the learning environment, there does not currently exist a valid and reliable instrument that measures the business practices in family child care settings. The BAS includes 37 indicator strands clustered in ten items. The instrument was constructed to complement the widely used Family Child Care Environment Rating Scale-Revised (FCCERS-R).
• APT

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