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Resources For Measuring Services And Outcomes In Head Start Programs Serving Infants And Toddlers
 
Head Start programs that serve pregnant women and families with infants and toddlers should develop a performance measurement plan. Program managers and evaluation staff can learn how to develop a plan that includes existing screening and assessment activities required by the Head Start Program Performance Standards. Profiles of screening and assessment instruments and a checklist for choosing the correct screening and assessment tool are included.

The following report is provided courtesy of the Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research & Evaluation at www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre.



Resources for Measuring Services And Outcomes in Head Start Programs Serving Infants And Toddlers

Title Page

Section 1

Report Abstract
Report Table of Contents
Section 1: Performance Measurement
Figure 1: Conceptual Framework for Programs Serving Infants & Toddlers
Box 1: Making a Difference In The Lives of Infants & Toddlers & Their Families

Section 2

Section 2: Formulating a Performance Measurement Plan

Section 2 continued

Box 2: Checklist to Help Identify Appropriate Screening & Assessment Instruments
Figure 2: The Development of a Continuous Improvement Model Clayton Family Futures
Box 3: An Example of a Statewide Approach to Measuring Outcomes

Section 3

Section 3: Information Included for Each Instrument
Box 4: Brief Definitions of Key Terms

References - Appendix A

References
Appendix A: Worksheet to Help Develop a Comprehensive Plan for Gathering & Analyzing Data

Appendix B

Appendix B: Performance Measures Framework
Figure 1: Conceptual Framework
Figure 2: Program Performance Measures

Appendix C

List of Measures
Child Development Instruments

Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment
Ages and Stages Questionnaires
Ages and Stages Questionnaires:Social-Emotional
Assessment, Evaluation, and Programming System for Infants and Children
Batelle Development Inventory
Bayley Scale for Infant Development, Second Edition
Brigance Diagnostic Inventory of Early Development-Revised
Carey Temperament Scales
Carolina Curriculum for Infants and Toddlers with Special Needs Assessment Log II
Denver II Development Screening Test
Developmental Observation Checklist System
Developmental Profile II
Devereux Early Childhood Assessment
Early Coping Inventory
Early Head Start Evaluation--Parent Interviews and Child Assessments
Early Learning Accomplishment Profile--Revised Edition
Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory/Sutter-Eyberg Student Behavior Inventory-Revised
Functional Emotional Assessment Scale
Hawaii Early Learning Profile
High/Scope Child Observation Record
High/Scope Child Observation Record for Infants and Toddlers
Humanics National Infant-Toddler Assessment
Infant-Toddler Developmental Assessment
Infant Toddler Social-Emotional Assessment
Infant Toddler Symptom Checklist
Leiter International Performance Scale-Revised
Macarthur Communicative Development Inventories
Mullen Scales of Early Learning
The Ounce Scale
Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Third Edition
Preschool Language Scale
Receptive-Expressive Emergent Language Test--2nd Ed.
Rossetti Infant-Toddler Language Scale
Temperament and Atypical Behavior Scale
Test de Vocabulario en Imagenes Peabody
Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale
Vineland Social-Emotional Early Childhood Scales
Woodcock-Johnson III

Parenting, the Home Environment, and Parent Well-Being Instruments

Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory-2
Beck Anxiety Inventory
Beck Depression Inventory-Second Edition
Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale
Child Abuse Potential Inventory
Composite International Diagnostic Interview
Conflict Tactics Scales, Parent-Child Version
Confusion, Hubbub, and Order Scale
Early Head Start National Evaluation Questionnaires
Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale
Family Environment Scale
Family Needs Scale
Family Resource Scale
Family Support Scale
Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment
Infant-Toddler and Family Instrument
Kempe Family Stress Inventory
Knowledge of Infant Development Inventory
Nursing Child Assessment Teaching Scales
Parenting Stress Index
Support Functions Scale

Program Implementation and Quality Instruments

Arnett Caregiver Interaction Scale
Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale-Revised
Early Head Start Evaluation--Parent Services Interviews
Family Day Care Rating Scale
Head Start Family Information System
Infant/Toddler Environment Rating Scale
National Association for the Education of Young Children Accreditation Criteria
Program Implementation Checklist and Rating Scales
Program Review Instrument for Systems Monitoring

 

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Resources For Measuring Services And Outcomes In Head Start Programs Serving Infants And Toddlers. HHS/ACF/OPRE. 2003. English.

Last Reviewed: June 2006

Last Updated: August 11, 2010