This 2013 session focuses on Educational Environments data for preschool aged children and Indicator B6 APR reporting. Participants will have an opportunity to discuss data collection methods, related strengths, challenges, […]
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Expanding the National Tool Box for Measuring Part C Participation Rates: Feasibility and Utility of the Birth Cohort Methodology
This 2013 session presents the progress in its examination of the viability of using a birth cohort methodology as another measure of Part C participation. Presented at the Improving Data, […]
Promising Practices for Incorporating IDEA Birth-Five Programs in State Professional Development Systems
This 2013 session provides information about a variety of approaches used by Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge Grantees to integrate IDEA programs in their professional development systems development. […]
Planful Changes: Using Self-Assessments to Improve Child and Family Outcome Measurement Systems
The 2013 session describes the Early Childhood Outcomes (ECO) Center’s self-assessments and how states are using them for planning and systems improvement. The session is targeted to those who are […]
Essentials of Data-Based Action: Getting Data Out of Your Data System (so you can use it)
This 2013 session describes the importance of using data to inform decision-making. Principles of data use are broken out into three main categories: planning for who the users are, creating […]
Developing a Framework to Build High Quality Part C and Section 619 Systems
This 2013 session presents the system framework the ECTA Center is developing to support states in analyzing the capacity of their current Part C and Section 619 systems and building […]
The Child Outcomes Summary (COS) Competency Check
This 2013 session highlights the ECO Center’s new COS Competency Check product. This resource offers a structured way to ensure staff completing the COS process have the basic knowledge and […]
Data Governance: The Foundation for an Effective Early Childhood Data System
This 2013 session discusses the increased need for data governance, but from a different approach. Instead of data governance administered within a single state agency to define when data are […]
Key Fiscal Tools and Indicators to Include in Early Childhood Data Collections
This 2013 session provides an overview on the types of finance data that states should be collecting for short-term planning and long-term projections as well as alternatives for collecting such […]
Creating a Culture of Data: Focus on People
This 2013 session provides an overview of the Data Quality Campaign’s 2012 document, “Focus on People to Change Data Culture,” that presents national trends in states’ progress on building and […]