CASTL Research Brief: Measuring Teacher-Child Interactions in Linguistically Diverse PreK Classrooms

AUTHORS: Jason T. Downer

DATE: January 11 2012

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Researchers investigated whether the Classroom Assessment Scoring System™ reliably characterized prekindergarten classrooms having varying ethnic and language compositions across the instrument’s three domains (Emotional Support, Classroom Organization, and Instructional Support). They also examined whether the instrument predicted children’s social, mathematics, and literacy outcomes equally well for Latino and dual language learner children as it does for their White, English-speaking peers.