Strengthening School Connectedness to Increase Student Success
Category: Student Well-Being
Instrument Overview
The Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (ECERS) is an assessment of classroom quality measuring environmental provisions and teacher-child interactions affecting the developmental needs of preschool- and kindergarten-aged children. The third edition of the assessment, ECERS-3, includes 35 items focusing on the following six domains: space and furnishings, personal care routines, language and literacy, learning activities, interaction, and program structure. ECERS may be used to evaluate inclusive and culturally diverse educational settings.
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Organization
Topic
Student Well-Being Category
American Institutes for Research® partnered with the Annenberg Institute at Brown University to collect instruments related to student well-being.
Content
Grades
< 3 Years,
Pre-Kindergarten,
Kindergarten,
1st Grade,
2nd Grade,
3rd Grade,
4th Grade,
5th Grade
Keywords
Student Well-Being ; Child Development ; Early childhood program environment quality
Languages
Danish,
German,
Kazakh,
Japanese,
Portuguese (Brazil),
Russian,
Swedish,
Ukrainian
Respondent
Observer
Access and Use
Price
$12 each up to 499
$11 each 500 to 999
$10 each 1,000+
$20.50 each remote proctored test session
Contact
Environment Rating Scales Institute https://www.ersi.info//contactus.html
Open Access
No
Setting
Classroom
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
Psychometric References
Harms, T., Clifford, R. M., & Cryer, D. (1998). Early childhood environment rating scale. Teachers College Press, Columbia University.
Clifford, R. M., Reszka, S. S., & Rossbach, H. G. (2010). Reliability and validity of the early childhood environment rating scale. Unpublished manuscript. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina. https://ersi.info/PDF/ReliabilityEcers.pdf
