MEFS
PLS
Data
ITERS/ECERS
CLASS
100

Minnesota Executive Function Scale

What are the MEFS?

100

Preschool Language Scale

What is the PLS?

100

100

What is the goal we want to reach?

100

Infant/Toddler Environment Rating Scale 

What is ITERS?

100

Classroom Assessment Scoring System

What is CLASS?

200

These skills underlie the capacity to plan ahead and meet goals, display self-control, follow multiple-step directions even when interrupted, and stay focused despite distractions, among others.

What are Executive Function Skills?

200

An interactive assessment of developmental language skills.

What is PLS?

200

Guide teachers planning, support school and family partnerships and provide Information for Evaluating Program Quality and Inform Policy.

What are assessments?
200

Early Childhood Environment Rating Scales

What is ECERS?

200

Is an observation instrument that assesses the quality of teacher-child interactions in center-based preschool classrooms.

What is The Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS)?

300

Executive function skills are the root of both of these abilities.

What is academic success and social-emotional competence?

300

The process by which children come to understand and communicate.

What is Language Development?

300

The practice of continuously monitoring children’s development and responding to learning needs, administrators can determine specific areas of program need and identify teacher and staff professional development to improve their ability to support all students

What is quality early childhood program?

300

Is a classroom assessment tool designed to measure the quality of group programs for infants and toddlers (birth to age 3) by collecting data through classroom observations and a staff interview.

What is ITERS?

300

Emotional support, classroom organization, and instructional support.

What are the three domains for  pre-K (ages 3-5) age level, the CLASS tool?

400

100 

What is the goal of the MEFS score?

400

100

What is the goal of the PLS score?

400

Helps teachers communicate important milestones in students’ development to families and provides opportunity for teachers and parents to work together to support children as they grow.

What are Assessments that Support School and Family Partnerships?

400

Is a 39-item rating scale organized into seven environmental subscales.

What is The ITERS scale?

400

Creating an environment in which they’re comfortable to tell you how they feel results in happier, more confident children who are ready to learn.

What is positive climate?

500

Is responding appropriately to another person’s spoken language.

What is Receptive language?

500

To evaluate the scope of a child's comprehension of language. Includes recall, reasoning, and making inferences. It is the most complex auditory ability

What is Auditory Comprehension?

500

Observing children, assessing them and teaching are inseparable processes. When children are assessed as part of the teaching-learning process, then observation and assessment information tells caregivers and teachers what each child can do and what he or she is ready to learn next.

What is Data Collection through Observation?


500

 Should be completed 2(twice) a year.

What is the ITERS/ECERS assessment?

500

These kind of questions can start interesting conversations that you can contribute to by expanding vocabulary.

What are open-ended questions?