Rasch-based refinement reduced the Early Ed Essentials surveys to 24 teacher measures (122 items) and 9 parent measures (42 items)¶
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q2 i? Applying Rasch-based criteria (person reliability, item fit, difficulty spread, and DIF) to the original surveys produced refined measures of 24 measures and 122 items on the teacher survey and 9 measures and 42 items on the parent survey. → Ehrlich 2018
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Ehrlich 2018¶
Ehrlich, S.B., Pacchiano, D.M., Stein, A.G., Wagner, M.R., Luppescu, S., Park, S., Frank, E., Lewandowski, H., & Young, C. (2018). Organizing early education for improvement: Testing a new survey tool. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Consortium on School Research and the Ounce of Prevention Fund. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/organizing-early-education-improvement-testing-new-survey-tool
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Measurement development analysis using the Rasch IRT model (Winsteps, Version 3.90.2) on teacher responses from validation sites plus additional CPS respondents (n=2,748 additional teacher responses) and parent responses. Items were revised or removed based on "person reliability," item fit (infit mean square < 1.30), difficulty spread, and differential item functioning.
"These efforts and decisions led to the refined survey measures used in the next stage of analyses — with 24 measures and 122 items from the teacher survey and 9 measures and 42 items from the parent survey."
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Related Claims¶
- The Early Education Essentials is reliable across multiple ECE settings — related
- Parent focus groups showed parents could not report on specific classroom instructional interactions, so ambitious instruction items were developed for the teacher survey instead, and a new Teacher Care and Responsiveness towards Parents measure was created — related
- The final spring 2015 parent-survey pilot collected 253 parent responses across seven school-based and nine center-based Chicago preschool sites, in English and Spanish — related
- In the spring 2015 pilot, 19 of 27 teacher-survey measures met the 0.80 reliability threshold and all but one met 0.70; the Early Childhood Discipline measure was removed — related
- All nine Cultivate learning condition measures show strong Rasch person reliability (0.82-0.87) in CPS administrations — related
- Recalibrated 5Essentials measures based on 2014–19 data maintained acceptable Rasch reliability and school-level variance — related
- The 28 GenAI literacy criteria function coherently as indicators of a single underlying construct in a Rasch partial credit analysis — related
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Rasch-based refinement reduced the Early Ed Essentials surveys to 24 teacher measures (122 items) and 9 parent measures (42 items) |
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Rasch-based refinement reduced the Early Ed Essentials surveys to 24 teacher measures (122 items) and 9 parent measures (42 items) |
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