Early Childhood Education Assessment Consortium
The Early Childhood Education Assessment (ECEA) Consortium provides guidance to decision makers on appropriate early childhood assessment systems that ensure high-quality learning opportunities for young children from birth through age 8 years. This project provides useful information and resources that are appropriate for all children, including those from various cultural and economic backgrounds, children who are learning English, and children with disabilities. Additionally, ECEA also communicates information about children’s growth and development in multiple domains to educators, caregivers, policymakers, parents, and the general public.
ECEA members include state assessment and early childhood staff, representatives from key early childhood education organizations such as the National Association of Early Childhood Specialists in State Departments of Education (NAECS/SDEs), the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), the National Child Care Information Center (NCCIC), the South Eastern Regional Education Laboratory (SERVE), and expert consultants from the field.
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Below are resources developed by or for the Early Childhood Standards and Assessment Collaborative focused on early learning standards, child assessment and early chiildhood program monitoring and evaluation.
ASSESSMENT– Key considerations about building an assessment system to support early learning.
STANDARDS – Key considerations about the relationship between early learning standards, program standards, program quality measures and accountability-and a table with web links to state early learning and program standards that are online.
EARLY CHILDHOOD GLOSSARY TERMS– links to more than thirty definitions, including related terms, explanatory comments, and additional resources for each term.
ECEA SCASS WEBINARS -- listen to, view and download presentations on the following topics:
For more information on:
2008 ECEA-SCASS CALENDER OF EVENTS
2007-2008 ECEA-SCASS MEMBERS
Joining the ECEA-SCASS
SCASS ECEA Roster
ECEA Meetings
Project Staff
Thomas Schultz, Project Coordinator, 202.312.6432, thomass[at]ccsso.org |