Substantive or symbolic stars: Quality rating and improvement systems through a new institutional lens

Tarrant, Kate; Huerta, Luis

doi:10.1016/j.ecresq.2014.04.002

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“…It is also possible that as the ECERS-R has become commonplace in most ECE classrooms that teachers have learned the “rules” of the ECERS-R and are structuring their classrooms in ways that symbolically comport to it (Tarrant & Huerta 2015). In other words, it is possible that in the 1990s, when the ECERS-R was not a common classroom and policy tool, the environmental quality of a classroom could serve as a reasonable proxy for broader developmentally appropriate care and instructional practices.…”

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Using the early childhood environment rating scale-Revised in high stakes contexts: Does evidence warrant the practice?

Setodji

Schaack

2018

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

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Increasingly, states establish different thresholds on the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale-Revised (ECERS-R), and use these thresholds to inform high-stakes decisions. However, the validity of the ECERS-R for these purposes is not well established. The objective of this study is to identify thresholds on the ECERS-R that are associated with preschool-aged children's social and cognitive development. Applying non-parametric modeling to the nationally-representative Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Birth Cohort (ECLS-B) dataset, we found that once classrooms achieved a score of 3.4 on the overall ECERS-R composite score, there was a leveling-off effect, such that no additional improvements to children's social, cognitive, or language outcomes were observed. Additional analyses found that ECERS-R subscales that focused on teaching and caregiving processes, as opposed to the physical environment, did not show leveling-off effects. The findings suggest that the usefulness of the ECERS-R for discerning associations with children's outcome may be limited to certain score ranges or subscales.

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confidence: 99%