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Title: Constructing and Resisting the Development of a School Readiness Survey: The Power of Participatory Research.
Author : Early Childhood Research&Practice
Release Date : January 22, 2011
Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 240 KB

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Introduction The purpose of the study reported here was to utilize innovative collaborative research approaches to create a school readiness assessment instrument grounded in values and perspectives shared among early childhood stakeholders in Wyoming. Understanding the power and impact of assessments on children, families, schools, and communities, Wyoming teachers resisted the adoption of a published checklist or standardized readiness assessment. In response to national trends to collect child performance data, policy makers at the Wyoming Department of Education chose to be proactive in developing an observation tool as a measure of children's foundations for success in kindergarten for use in publicly funded preschool programs for 4- to 5-year-old children and kindergartners in their first year of public education.