The Environment Rating Scales in research

The ECERS-R is probably best known for its use in the Effective Provision of Pre-school Education Project (EPPE), where it underpinned the research on the relationships between quality provision in the early years and children’s later development. The EPPE team also developed a UK extension to the ECERS-R (the ECERS-E) to provide greater depth of assessment in some of the more ‘educational’ aspects of provision.

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The Environment Rating Scales have also been used in other large UK research studies, for example the National Evaluation of the Neighbourhood Nurseries Initiative, the National Evaluation of Sure Start (NESS), and the Evaluation of the Early Education Pilot for Two Year Old Children.

They are currently being used by the University of Oxford to assess the impact of Early Years Professional Status on the quality of Early Years Provision.

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The Effective Provision of Pre-school Education (EPPE) Project

Sylva, K., Melhuish, E.C, Sammons, P., Siraj-Blatchford, I. and Taggart, B. (2004)
The Effective Provision of Pre-School Education (EPPE) Project: Final Report, London: DfES/ Institute of Education, University of London.

The EPPE website can be found at: http://eppe.ioe.ac.uk

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The Evaluation of the Early Education Pilot for Two Year Old Children

The final evaluation report can be found at: 

http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/research/data/uploadfiles/DCSF-RR134.pdf

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The National Evaluation of the Neighbourhood Nurseries Initiative (NNI)

Mathers, S. and Sylva, K. (2007) National Evaluation of the Neighbourhood Nurseries Initiative: The Relationship Between Quality and Children's Behavioural Development, London: DfES

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The Millennium Cohort Study (MCS)

Mathers, S., Sylva, K. and Joshi, H. (2007) Quality of Childcare Settings in the Millennium Cohort Study: Final Report, London: DfES