Strengthening School Connectedness to Increase Student Success
Category: Student Well-Being and Mental Health
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.
Content
Grades
Pre-Kindergarten,
Kindergarten
Languages
English
Spanish
Other
Other Language/s
ECERS-3: Danish, German, Kazakh, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil only), Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian
Respondent
Observer
Administration Information
Qualifications
Training needed, available at at the Environment Rating Scales Institute (ERSI) website www.ersi.info
Access and Use
Price
See publisher’s (Kaplan) website for pricing.
Contact
Environment Rating Scales Institute https://www.ersi.info//contactus.html
Open Access
No
Use in Research
See a detailed list here: https://ers.fpg.unc.edu/research
Psychometrics
Scoring
Manual scoring
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 Unpublished manuscript.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
Designed for students with disabilities
No
Designed for English Language Learners
No
