A few states—Alabama, Alaska, Nevada, and Virginia—use direct assessments to show whether a child has met a specific skill such as recognizing a letter in the alphabet. The authors caution ...

ODENTON, Md. — The results from this year's kindergarten readiness assessment (KRA), is a preview of how prepared pre-schools are to learn. A new state report shows more students enter ...

“Historically in early childhood, there’s been a concern about whether we have really high-quality assessment tools that inform teachers in how to guide their work with kids,” Mr. Schultz said.

Most of Stamford’s students took the PELI assessment at their kindergarten orientation in May, but for those who didn’t, SPEF held four community events in the early mornings and evenings ...

This involves over 2,000 early childhood institutions (ECIs), yielding thousands of four-year-old children. This report immediately raised red flags in my mind.

This assessment tool, the Preschool Aged Psychiatric Assessment (PAPA), uses semi-structured interviews to diagnose psychiatric symptoms in children up to five years of age.