Examining the psychometric properties of the Infant-Toddler Environment Rating Scale-Revised Edition in a high-stakes context

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 121-132

  Bisceglia, Rossana ^a   Perlman, Michal ^a   Schaack, Diana ^b   Jenkins, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Child care quality; Factor Analysis; High stakes; Intra class Correlation; ITERS; ITERS R; Multilevel modeling; One classroom score; Psychometric Properties; Staff to child ratio

Indexed keywords

EID: 65449149528     PISSN: 08852006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2009.02.001     Document Type: Article

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