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Ten Countries Take a School-driven Approach to Measuring and Improving Preschool Quality
Rebecca Sayre & Abbie Raikes, ECD Measure We now know that quality early childhood programs can have a lasting positive impact. But we know less about how to translate that science into workable solutions for programs around the world. While there is increasing...
Learning Through Play: Insights from Measuring Early Learning Quality & Outcomes (MELQO) Analyses
Learning through play: Insights from Measuring Early Learning Quality & Outcomes (MELQO) analyses Abbie Raikes & Dawn Davis, ECD Measure We’re increasingly recognizing the power of play for children. Children learn best when they are supported to deeply...
Nebraska Early Childhood Collaborative Partnership to Support Family Child Care Providers
Family child care is extremely important to many families with young children. Often run by independent small business owners, family child care providers balance caring for children with all of the functions of running a small business. To help support these...
South Africa works toward a national ECE data system while adapting to COVID-19
By: Janeli Kotze, Deputy Director of Research Coordination, Monitoring and Evaluation, Department of Basic Education & Vuyelwa Ntuli, Chief Education Specialist, Early Childhood Development, Department of Basic Education. Cross-posted on together4ece.org ...
Collecting data to inform the scaling up of ECE in Mozambique
Mozambique is at a critical moment for early childhood education (ECE). Following the large-scale pilot of a community-based ECE program (known by its Portuguese acronym DICIPE- Desenvolvimento Integral da Criança em Idade Pré-Escolar), the country is now planning for...
Exploring Scales of Quality in Early Childhood Environments
In recent years, more and more children worldwide have access to pre-primary education. As access expands, it’s important to keep our attention focused on quality – the elements of the learning environment that determine children’s experiences in early childhood...
Measuring Early Learning Quality Through an Easy-to-use Checklist in Colombia and Liberia
The ECD Measure team is pleased to be partnering with colleagues from Universidad del Norte (Barranquilla, Colombia) and University of Liberia (Monrovia, Liberia) to test new ways to measure the quality of early childhood education (ECE). ECD Measure has recently...
Teachers, Partnership, and Data: How Do Early Childhood Stakeholders in Lesotho and Tanzania Define “Quality” in Pre-primary Programs?
The ECD Measure team, in partnership with in-country consultants, recently completed a project to explore how early childhood stakeholders in Lesotho and Tanzania define quality pre-primary programs. Interviews were completed with pre-primary teachers, school...
Reflecting on progress from the CPDMA taskforce
Liberia, Rwanda, South Africa, and Ethiopia reflect on CPDMA taskforce participation.