WHAT SHAPE IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHILD OUTCOMES AND CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT SCORING SYSTEM?

儿童成绩与课堂评估评分系统之间的关系是什么？

• 批准号: 100128
• 负责人: ALAN COBO-LEWIS
• 金额: $ 13.46万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MAINE ORONO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-29 至 2017-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/100128
• 关键词: WHAT; SHAPE; RELATIONSHIP; BETWEEN; CHILD

Child care quality is associated with child outcomes, but high-quality child care is rare. The goal of this project is to improve the understanding of the quantitative relationship between child outcomes and a measure of teacher-child interactions (the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, or CLASS) that is increasingly used in program improvement and in high-stakes applications such as quality rating and improvement systems and Head Start designated renewal. The study will use monotonic generalized additive models (monotonic GAM) to analyze the possibly curvilinear relationship between CLASS (and specific domains and dimensions within CLASS) and child outcomes in existing datasets available from Research Connections. The analysis plan includes specific hypotheses about curvilinear relationships between CLASS and child outcomes that will allow us to test for the presence of low thresholds for achieving strong relationships, high thresholds beyond which diminishing returns are seen, and differences in curvilinear relationships among specific domains and dimensions of the CLASS. By addressing the nature of the link between child care observation tools and child outcomes, this proposal addresses two research topics of current relevance to decision makers at local, state, and national levels: ongoing child care quality improvement and child wellbeing.

儿童保育质量与儿童的结局相关，但高质量的儿童保育很少见。该项目的目标是提高对儿童成果与师生互动衡量标准（课堂评估评分系统或 CLASS）之间定量关系的理解，该衡量标准越来越多地用于项目改进和高风险应用，例如质量评级和改进系统以及 Head Start 指定更新。该研究将使用单调广义加性模型（单调 GAM）来分析 CLASS（以及 CLASS 中的特定领域和维度）与 Research Connections 现有数据集中的儿童结果之间可能的曲线关系。分析计划包括关于 CLASS 和儿童结果之间曲线关系的具体假设，这些假设将使我们能够测试是否存在实现牢固关系的低阈值、超过后会出现收益递减的高阈值，以及 CLASS 的特定领域和维度之间曲线关系的差异。通过解决儿童保育观察工具与儿童结果之间联系的性质，该提案解决了当前与地方、州和国家各级决策者相关的两个研究主题：持续的儿童保育质量改进和儿童福祉。