Essential 0-5 Survey

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Evidence · 7 claims (7 for) · 2 studies (1 associational, 1 qualitative), q2 · 0 of 2 report an effect size · 7 claims rest on one study

Description

The Essential 0-5 Survey, created in partnership with Start Early, gathers teacher and parent perceptions to assess six organizational conditions in early-childhood education programs and provide leaders with actionable data.

Components

• Early Education Essentials surveys (now The Essential 0-5 Survey): The Early Education Essentials are surveys "created in partnership with Start Early" that "use teacher and parent perceptions to measure six organizational conditions of early childhood education programs." They extend and complement existing measures of ECE quality constructs and are intended to give leaders and practitioners actionable data about organizational supports. The instrument has since been renamed The Essential 0-5 Survey. (Early Education Essentials: Testing Measurement Validity of an Organizational Conditions et al. (2018))

Claims

• The Early Education Essentials is reliable across multiple ECE settings [+W]
• The Early Education Essentials is sensitive to site-level differences [+W]
• Some, but not all, measured organizational conditions are associated in expected directions with site-level ECE quality metrics [+W]
• Strongly organized ECE programs create contexts more supportive of teaching, learning, and family engagement than weakly organized programs [+W]
• Parents offer a unique perspective best captured by a distinct sixth essential, Parent Voice [+W]
• Family voices contributed to differentiating strong and weak organizational conditions across all essentials, not only Involved Families [+W]
• Programs with strong essential supports are more likely to have higher teacher-child interactions and better child attendance than programs with very weak supports [+W]

Related Products and Programmes

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Key Sources

• Early Education Essentials: Testing Measurement Validity of an Organizational Conditions and Practices Tool for Early Childhood Education Settings. (2018). https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/early-education-essentials-validation-surveys-measuring-early-education-organizational

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