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Preprimary Project
Pages 79-88

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From page 79...
... The TEA Preprimary Project is a response to the dearth of information about children's care and education experiences prior to formal schooling. Some key questions inspired by current trends in early childhood care and education that have dictated Me objectives and design of each phase of the Preprimary Project are as follows: Phase I: Phase 2: Phase 3: o o o o o o o o o What kinds of early childhood care and education services do families use in various countries around We world?
From page 80...
... Each participating country has established a national research center, appointed a national research coordinator to supervise the study, and assembled additional staff to coordinate data collection and analysis. In its capacity as international coordinating center, the High/Scope Foundation has appointed a research team to provide general supervision of project activities and to provide technical assistance to participating countries.
From page 81...
... In doing so, they used the joint-national project directorsdeveloped instrument, the Parent/Guardian Interview, which asked about the types of formal and informal care arrangements families use for their 4-year-olds. Other information collected in the interview included the number of different settings attended by children, the reasons families use care/education services, the amount of time children spent in their various settings, family satisfaction with services, family background, and a detailed description of a typical day in the child's life.
From page 82...
... The finding volume containing a wealth of descriptive information about the use of early childhood services in various countries is being published in Fall 1994. Additional reporting activities included presentations at the 1990 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association meeting and at the 1992 annual meeting of the National Association for the Education of Young Children.
From page 83...
... An early Phase 2 reporting activity was conducted at the 1989 annual meeting of the National Association for the Education of Young Children in a symposium co-sponsored with Organisation Modiale pour I' education Prescolaire (OMEP)
From page 84...
... 1990 National research coordinators and the deputy international coordinator made presentations at the AERA annual meeting. The international coordinating center and international steering committee presented Phase 2 (Quality of Life Study)
From page 85...
... Phase 3 data collection will be completed. 1997 Phase 2 Monograph #6 - causal models of the complete set of findings will be published.
From page 86...
... Patricia P Olmsted, International Deputy Coordinator High/Scope Educational Research Foundation 600 North River Street Ypsilanti, Michigan 48198-2898 telephone: 313/ 485-2000 facsimile: 313/ 485-0704 e-mail: Pat_Olmsted@UM.CC.UMICH.EDU International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement Secretariat c/o SVO Sweelinckplein 14 2517 OK The Hague THE NETHERLANDS telephone: 31-70-346-96-79 facsimile: 31-70-360-99-51 e-mail: iea@isvo.n!
From page 87...
... 1993 International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement 1990 IEA Preprimary Project Phase 2: Quality of Life Study and Phase 3: Follow-up Study Workplan. Submitted to the IEA General Assembly by the International Coordinating Center and International Steering Committee.
From page 88...
... * NOTE: This study summary was reviewed and edited by Patricia Olmsted at the High/Scope Educational Research Foundation in Ypsilanti, Michigan on June 24, 1994; Olmsted provided database information on December I, 1994.


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