Parents offer a unique perspective best captured by a distinct sixth essential, Parent Voice¶

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Currency · newest study 2018 · checked against its sources 2026-10-08 (automated, 1 of 1 entry) · not reviewed by a person

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q2 i? The validation study confirmed the five essentials framework's relevancy in ECE settings and revealed that parents' unique perspective required a distinct sixth essential titled Parent Voice. → Pacchiano 2018

Evidence¶

Pacchiano 2018¶

Pacchiano, D.M., Wagner, M.R., & Lewandowski, H., with Ehrlich, S.B. & Stein, A.G. (2018). Early Education Essentials: Illustrations of Strong Organizational Practices in Programs Poised for Improvement. Chicago, IL: The Ounce of Prevention Fund and the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/early-education-essentials-illustrations-strong-organizational-practices-programs

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Finding from the 2017 validation study, in which a new ECE parent survey was created in lieu of a student survey. The study "revealed that parents offer a unique perspective" captured by the sixth essential, Parent Voice; no effect size is printed.

"Our validation study confirmed the relevancy of the UChicago Consortium's five essentials framework in ECE settings and revealed that parents offer a unique perspective that is best captured by a distinct, sixth essential we titled Parent Voice."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• The Early Education Essentials is sensitive to site-level differences — related
• Family voices contributed to differentiating strong and weak organizational conditions across all essentials, not only Involved Families — related
• The Early Education Essentials is reliable across multiple ECE settings — a broader claim this one bears on
• Strongly organized ECE programs create contexts more supportive of teaching, learning, and family engagement than weakly organized programs — related
• The validation study sample comprised 81 Chicago ECE sites with high teacher and parent survey response rates — 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
• Including educator voice helps researchers understand educator, student, and system needs — 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