Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (ECERS)

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

Sub-Category
Domains
Early childhood program environment quality
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 Unpublished manuscript.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

Psychometric Considerations

Psychometrics is the science of psychological assessment. A primary goal of EdInstruments is to provide information on crucial psychometric topics including Validity and Reliability – essential concepts of evaluation, which indicate how well an instrument measures a construct - as well as additional properties that are worthy of consideration when selecting an instrument of measurement.

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