Developing a Tool to Examine Teachers' Use of Ongoing Child Assessment to Individualize Instruction
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Developing a Tool to Examine Teachers' Use of Ongoing Child Assessment to Individualize Instruction

Published: Sep 30, 2015
Publisher: Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation
Human Services Quality Improvement Early Childhood Child Development Professional Development Quality Measurement Education Effective Data Use Data Analytics Surveys and Data Collection
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Authors

Shannon Monahan

Sally Atkins-Burnett

Barbara A. Wasik

Lauren Akers

Felicia Hurwitz

Judith Carta

In 2012, the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation in the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) engaged Mathematica Policy Research and its partners to conduct the iterative development of the EDIT measure. The EDIT is designed to help researchers understand how teachers conduct ongoing assessments for individualization and use those assessments to guide instruction. The EDIT focuses on the processes the teacher uses for (1) planning what information to collect and how to do so, (2) collecting valid data, (3) organizing and interpreting the data, and (4) using the data collected to inform both overall and individualized instruction. The EDIT uses a multimethod approach in gathering evidence with checklists, ratings, and rubrics that describe how the teacher collects and uses ongoing assessments.

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