1. EARLY-Q Project
Evaluation of the quality of
Early Childhood Education in Greece
Grammatikopoulos Vasilis,
Zachopoulou Evridiki
Gregoriadis Athanasios

2. Early-Q is implemented through the
framework of the Operational Program
«Education and Lifelong Learning»
Co-financed from the European Union
(European Social Fund) and from National
sources (Greek ministry of education)

3. Duration of the Project: 45 months
Jan 2012 – Sep 2015
Jan
2012
May
2015

4. Aim
Evaluation of the Early Childhood
Education quality in Greece

5. Lack of evaluation procedures
for the quality of early childhood
education environment
Lack of valid and reliable instruments for
the evaluation of ECE in the Greek
educational setting

6. Objectives
Provision of valid and reliable instruments for the evaluation of
the quality of early childhood environments
Development of a training program for using the evaluation
instruments
Evaluation of the quality of 650 early childhood classrooms
Creation of a data base about the quality of ECE in Greece
Quality comparison of the provision of ECE among Greece and
other countries

7. 1st Research Team
(Evaluation & Training)
2nd Research Team
(Supervision of applied
research)
3rd Research Team
(Research Methodology &
Statistical Analyses)
External Contributors
(school counselors & early
educators)
Early
Childhood
Classrooms

8. Researchers from 9 universities
Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki
University of Crete
Fundação Carlos Chagas (São Paulo, Brazil)
University of Bielefeld (Germany)
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
University of Cyprus
University of Western Macedonia
University of Ioannina
University of Southampton (UK)

9. Invited Researchers
Eliana Bhering
Michael Glueer
Loizou Eleni
Tzavidis Nikolaos
Fundação Carlos Chagas (São Paulo, Brazil)
University of Bielefeld (Germany)
University of Cyprus
University of Southampton (UK)

10. 20 assessors
Municipalities & Educational Districts

11. Instruments
ECERS-R (Early Childhood Enviroment Rating Scale-Revised)
ECERS-E (Early Childhood Enviroment Rating Scale-Extension)
Movement/Play scale

12. Completed actions
Content analysis & face validity of the translated
instruments
Selection of assessors
Selection of classrooms (multistage sampling technique)
1st Training Seminar for the assessors
Training evaluation
Pilot study – 4months (1 March 2013 – 30 June 2013)

13. Pilot Study
to collect empirical data for initial examination of
the psychometric properties of the scales
to obtain feedback regarding the understanding
of the items and indicators
to enable the assessors to gain experience in
using the scales

14. Forthcoming actions
Analysis of the data from the pilot study
Additional adaptations to the instruments
2nd Training Seminar for the assessors
Main Study – 15 months (1/2/2014-30/4/2015)
Analysis of the data from the main study
Dissemination actions (Conference presentations,
publications, International workshop)

15. Envisaged main outcomes
A well-documented evaluation for the Quality of
Early Childhood Education in Greece
Plethora of data and Reliable instruments that will
allow future comparisons of the quality within the
Greek educational system as long as with other
countries.

16. http://earlyquality.teithe.gr
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