{"id":7798,"date":"2019-05-22T16:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/early_childhood_environment_rating_scale_-ecers\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:00:46","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:00:46","slug":"early_childhood_environment_rating_scale_-ecers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/early_childhood_environment_rating_scale_-ecers\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (ECERS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An instrument devised by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ersi.info\/scales_history.html\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.ersi.info\/scales_history.html&amp;target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thelma Harms, Richard M. Clifford<\/a> and Denny Cryer for measuring aspects of the environment of pre-school children from 2.5 to 5 years of age, which can be considered to be measures of the quality of the preschool environment. &nbsp;It consists of 43 items assigned to 7 sub-scales:&nbsp;space and furnishing, personal care routines, language reasoning, activities, interactions, program structure, and parents and staff. &nbsp;Items recently added have included curriculum (nature\/science and math\/number), and health and safety. &nbsp;Other ECRS scales concern infant\/toddler (0-2.5 years), school-age (5-12 years), and family day care in provider&#8217;s home rating scale.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"home_inventory\">HOME inventory<\/a>, <a href=\"quality_of_daycare\">Quality of daycare<\/a>, Teacher Belief Scale   <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An instrument devised by Thelma Harms, Richard M. Clifford and Denny Cryer for measuring aspects of the environment of pre-school children from 2.5 to 5 years of age, which can be considered to be measures of the quality of the preschool environment. &nbsp;It consists of 43 items assigned to 7 sub-scales:&nbsp;space and furnishing, personal care &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/early_childhood_environment_rating_scale_-ecers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (ECERS)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}