EARLY-Q Project Evaluation of the quality of

Early Childhood Education in Greece

Grammatikopoulos Vasilis, Zachopoulou Evridiki

Gregoriadis Athanasios

Early-Q is implemented through the framework of the Operational Program «Education and Lifelong Learning» Co-financed from the European Union (European Social Fund) and from National sources (Greek ministry of education)

Duration of the Project: 45 months Jan 2012 – Sep 2015

Jan 2012

May 2015

Aim Evaluation of the Early Childhood Education quality in Greece

Lack of evaluation procedures for the quality of early childhood education environment

Lack of valid and reliable instruments for the evaluation of ECE in the Greek educational setting

Objectives

Provision of valid and reliable instruments for the evaluation of the quality of early childhood environments

Development of a training program for using the evaluation instruments

Evaluation of the quality of 650 early childhood classrooms

Creation of a data base about the quality of ECE in Greece

Quality comparison of the provision of ECE among Greece and other countries

1st Research Team (Evaluation & Training)

2nd Research Team (Supervision of applied

research)

3rd Research Team (Research Methodology &

Statistical Analyses)

External Contributors (school counselors & early

educators)

Early Childhood

Classrooms

Researchers from 9 universities

Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki

University of Crete

Fundação Carlos Chagas (São Paulo, Brazil)

University of Bielefeld (Germany)

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

University of Cyprus

University of Western Macedonia

University of Ioannina

University of Southampton (UK)

Invited Researchers

Eliana Bhering

Michael Glueer

Loizou Eleni

Tzavidis Nikolaos

Fundação Carlos Chagas (São Paulo, Brazil)

University of Bielefeld (Germany)

University of Cyprus

University of Southampton (UK)

20 assessors

Municipalities & Educational Districts

Instruments

ECERS-R (Early Childhood Enviroment Rating Scale-Revised)

ECERS-E (Early Childhood Enviroment Rating Scale-Extension)

Movement/Play scale

Completed actions

Content analysis & face validity of the translated instruments

Selection of assessors

Selection of classrooms (multistage sampling technique)

1st Training Seminar for the assessors

Training evaluation

Pilot study – 4months (1 March 2013 – 30 June 2013)

Pilot Study

to collect empirical data for initial examination of the psychometric properties of the scales

to obtain feedback regarding the understanding of the items and indicators

to enable the assessors to gain experience in using the scales

Forthcoming actions

Analysis of the data from the pilot study

Additional adaptations to the instruments

2nd Training Seminar for the assessors

Main Study – 15 months (1/2/2014-30/4/2015)

Analysis of the data from the main study

Dissemination actions (Conference presentations, publications, International workshop)

Envisaged main outcomes

A well-documented evaluation for the Quality of Early Childhood Education in Greece

Plethora of data and Reliable instruments that will allow future comparisons of the quality within the Greek educational system as long as with other countries.

http://earlyquality.teithe.gr

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