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Tarullo LB, Vogel CA, Aikens N, Martin ES, Nogales E, Del Grosso P. 2008. Implementation of the Head Start National Reporting System: Spring 2007—Final report. Princeton, NJ: Mathematica, 130 pp.

Annotation: This final report provides information about the Head Start National Reporting System (NRS), an initiative to assess systematically the early literacy, language, and numeracy skills of all 4- and 5-year-olds enrolled in Head Start. The report provides background information about the NRS, describes the quality of cognitive child assessments and the experiences of staff in administering assessments, reports on programs' approaches to training staff to conduct assessments, describes approaches to implementing assessments and discusses costs, discusses ways that programs have used assessment results, summarizes what was learned from interviews and focus groups, and describes the administration of the social and emotional development rating form.

Keywords: Assessment, Costs, Early childhood development, Early childhood education, Emotional development, Evaluation, Focus groups, Head Start, Young children, Language development, Literacy, Social behavior, Training
   

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