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QUALITY

promoting excellence in Bristol though the Bristol Standard.

This page is designed to help you find interesting research on Early Years & Childcare. Quality is not a magic answer - but a process of continually searching. In due course we hope to develop these pages into an eMail newsletter which can promote debate on relevant issues, such as
what is the role of Reception Year - faced with Baseline Assessment & the literacy hour?
how can EY&C Partnerships have a say in emerging government policy?

Generally we do not consider the Desirable Learning Outcomes to be good enough. The QCA consultation on changes is due out for consultation in next month. The Bristol Standard seeks to provide a local quality kitemark. This provides a self assessment scheme with 10 dimensions, applicable across a range of settings. Quality was covered in Section F of the 1998 Plan.
Social Services are also developing their Quality Protects Action Plan.

LEARNING FROM RESEARCH

Check the WWW links for a fuller list. The best info I have found is:

The High/Scope Educational Research Foundation. They have a catalogue.
Note this site can be difficult to get through to. Also that the High Scope 2 study is not yet available (despite comments at Conference).

The Perry Pre-School Project

	Headstart Quality Research Centre
	Latest Research project
	Programme Recognition Project
	Evaluation of the Mitchigan Readiness Program

	IEA Pre-Primary Project
	Educational Models Study
	Preschool Curriculum Comparison Project
	High/Scope: Training of Trainers Evaluation.

There is also a summary of the Hi/Scope Approach for preschool, primary, and adolescent age groups.

ERIC digests and ERIC titles (lots of good research summaries from Lilian Katz; Sylvia Chard; etc

	Lasting Benefits of Preschool Programmes
	Child initiated learning activities for young children living in poverty
	The Project Approach
	Issues in selecting Topics for Projects
	Another page on the Project Approach

	Developmental approach to assessment of young children
	Developmentally appropriate practices
	The contribution of documentation to Quality of Early Childhood Education
	Checklist for Young Childrens Development
	The Benefits of Mixed Age Grouping
	Non graded & mixed age grouping in Early Childhood programs

	Action Research in Early Childhood Education
	The Head Start Experience
	Encouraging creativity in Early Childhood classrooms
	Integrating Children with disabilities into Preschool
	Family involvement in Early Multi-cultural Learning
	Father Involvement in School

	Effects of Early Childhood Intervention on Primary School Progress
	Why we Should invest in Early Years
	Early Excellence (Summary of Labour Election policy)
	Bright Beginnings
	History of Consultative Group on Early Childhood Care & Development

Note: most of these are from the ERIC digests site. Please acknowledge their role in making this reasearch available. You will need to use BACK on your browser to return to this page. Where these are held locally to ease access the links won't work. Go to their site.

NFER site - including papers on

impact of class size,

on age of starting school,

Parents views of pre-school and

on raising achievement in Newham

REGGIO EMILIA

Montessori Links

Montessori World - Helping Children Become

London Montessori Centre Online and their magazine

Reggio Emilia - Some lessons for Educators Go to ERIC digests for live links.

Reggio Emilia - links Go to ERIC digests for live links.

Montessori resource page

Waldorf resources

OTHER SITES:

Multiple intelligences or Multiple ways of knowing.

Also check the WWW links.
Report broken links. Thanks.

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