Early Childhood Quality Rating Scale—Emergent Curriculum (ECQRS-EC)

Kathy Sylva, Iram Siraj, Brenda Taggart, Denise Kingston (Autoren)

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96 Seiten

2025
Teachers' College Press (Verlag)
978-0-8077-8655-0 (ISBN)

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Young children’s learning depends on a wide range of experiences that support their holistic development. While many different curricular frameworks are used around the world, there is increasing agreement that the emerging academic skills of language and literacy, mathematics, and science should be supported by a playful pedagogy in the early years. The Early Childhood Quality Rating Scale—Emergent Curriculum (ECQRS-EC) is designed to measure quality in these key areas within preschool settings. In addition to three content-area subscales, this evidence-based tool includes a subscale dedicated to diversity and inclusion to help educators support gender and cultural differences in children 3–6 years old who are developing at different rates. Because it recognizes the important role of the adult in providing children with high-quality interactions, this new quality rating scale can be used for research, teacher self-evaluation, and program improvement, audit, and regulation.

Book Features:

Focuses on the role of the early childhood educator, their pedagogy, and planning.
Items are firmly grounded in culturally and developmentally appropriate practice.
Diversity Subscale, “Supporting Diversity and Inclusion,” reflects the importance of sensitivity to supporting special needs and being inclusive of all cultures, including Indigenous people.

Kathy Sylva is Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Oxford. She has researched extensively in the education and care of young children, with a special interest in the effects of early education and also the role of education in combating social disadvantage. Iram Siraj is Professor of Child Development and Education at the University of Oxford, UK and Research Professor, University of Maynooth, Ireland. She is coauthor of each of the Curriculum, Leadership and Interaction Quality Rating Scales (CLIQRS) and has led several RCTs on effective professional learning. Brenda Taggart is an Honorary Senior Research Associate at University College London Institute of Education. She co-led on the Effective Pre-school, Primary, and Secondary Education (EPPSE 1997-2014). Her background is in teaching and research that explores the impact of educational initiatives. Denise Kingston is Senior Researcher at Oxford University and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Sussex. She is a specialist in children’s development, with a background in educational psychology. Her research focus is effective professional development and early childhood pedagogy and practice.

Contents

Foreword by W. Steven Barnett and Ellen C. Frede vii

Introduction to the Early Childhood Quality Rating Scale—Emergent Curriculum (ECQRS-EC) 1

The Underlying Principles of ECQRS-EC 3

Rationale for the Development of New Items and Indicators in the ECQRS-EC 5

Language and Emergent Literacy 5

Changes to and Additional Items in Emergent Mathematics 5

Emergent Science 7

The Overlap Between the Sustained Shared Thinking and Emotional Well-Being Scale (SSTEW) and Mathematics and Science Items in ECQRS-EC 7

Supporting Diversity and Inclusion 8

Reliability and Validity 9

Content of the ECQRS-EC Scales 11

Preparing to Use the ECQRS-EC 13

Timing 13

Contextual Information on the Center 13

Definitions 13

Optional Scoring Systems 14

Conducting the Observation 15

Scoring the Scales 16

ECQRS-EC and the “Spirit of the Scales” 17

Cautions in Use 17

Using ECQRS-EC as a Self-Assessment and Improvement Tool 17

Making Judgments 18

Use of Supplementary (Nonobservation) Evidence 20

The Score Sheet, Joint Observation Sheet, and ECQRS-EC Profile 22

Content of the Scales 23

Subscale 1: Language and Emergent Literacy 24

Item 1: Environmental Print: Letters and Words 24

Item 2: Book and Literacy Areas 26

Item 3: Adults Reading With the Children 28

Item 4: Sounds in Words 30

Item 5: Emergent Writing/Mark Making 32

Item 6: Talking and Listening 34

Item 7: Words and Sentences 36

Subscale 2: Emergent Mathematics 38

Item 8: Counting and the Application of Counting 38

Item 9: Understanding and Representing Number 40

Item 10: Math Talk and Thinking Mathematically 44

Item 11a: Mathematical Activities: Shape 48

Item 11b: Mathematical Activities: Sorting, Matching, and Comparing 50

Item 11c: Mathematical Activities: Subitizing 52

Subscale 3: Emergent Science 56

Item 12: Natural Materials 56

Item 13: Areas Featuring Science/Science Resources 58

Item 14: Developing Scientific Thinking and the Scientific Process 60

Item 15a: Science Activities: Nonliving 62

Item 15b: Science Activities: Living Processes 64

Item 15c: Science Activities: Food Preparation 66

Subscale 4: Supporting Diversity and Inclusion 68

Item 16: Planning for and Supporting Individual Learning Needs 68

Item 17: Gender Equality and Awareness 70

Item 18: Race Equality and Awareness 72

The ECQRS-EC Information Sheet 74

Rough Plan of Indoor and/or Outdoor Areas Being Observed 75

Score Sheet 77

Joint Observation/Inter-Rater Reliability for the ECQRS-EC 83

ECQRS-EC Profile 84

References 85

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.1.2025
Vorwort	W. Steven Barnett
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	279 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Vorschulpädagogik
ISBN-10	0-8077-8655-1 / 0807786551
ISBN-13	978-0-8077-8655-0 / 9780807786550
Zustand	Neuware