Kansas Pre-Kindergarten Evaluation

The Institute for Educational Research and Public Service will conduct an evaluation of classroom quality and early academic achievement in diverse child care and education settings located in 14 Kansas Counties:  Shawnee, Geary, Reno, Sedgwick, Johnson, Wyandotte, Ford, Crawford, Douglas, Ogden, Kingman, Kiowa, Barber, and Comanche.  The teaching staff and children from preschool classrooms funded by the Kansas Pre-K Pilot initiative will participate in the evaluation.   Assessments will occur on multiple levels, including classroom, child, teacher, and family.  The assessments will measure classroom environments and instructional practices as well as children’s development in language, emergent literacy skills, and mathematics. Teacher and family surveys will be used to collect demographic information.

 

The Institute will assemble and train a cadre of observers and assessors to collect all data.  The testing phases will occur over a two-month period and will include a site visit to determine testing feasibility in the child care and education settings and scheduling of classroom and child assessments.  Field Coordinators will monitor classroom observation and child assessment practices using reliability protocols.

Program Personnel

Elliott, Ph.D., Marleen
Title: Principal Investigator
785-864-7440
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