Assessing Cognitive Skills in Early Childhood Education Using a Bilingual Early Language Learner Assessment Tool
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. The Current Focus of Skill Development in Pre-K
2.1. Developmental Emphases in Preschool Curricula
2.2. The Focus of Current Kindergarten Entry Assessments
2.3. A Few Examples of Well-Known KEAs
3. BELLA and Its Contributions to the Development and Evaluation of Cognitive Skills
3.1. BELLA’s Knowledge Domains
3.1.1. Early Literacy Skills
3.1.2. Early Numeracy Skills
3.1.3. Early Science Skills
3.2. BELLA’s Addition of Cognitive Skills
4. Capitalizing on Digital Technology to Capture Analytical, Creative, and Practical Skills
4.1. Assessing the Analytical Skill of Estimation
4.2. Assessing Creative Skills and Flexible Thinking through Novel Tasks
4.2.1. Creative Thinking in Novel Problems
4.2.2. Creative Thinking in Multiple Solutions
4.3. Assessing the Practical/Social Skills
4.3.1. Emotion Control/Emotion Recognition
4.3.2. Emotion Control/Relationships
4.3.3. Empathy and Perspective-Taking
5. BELLA’s Psychometric Properties with Regard to Cognitive Skill Assessment
5.1. Method
5.1.1. Sample
5.1.2. Procedure
5.1.3. Data Analyses
5.2. Results
6. Discussion & Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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n | Proportion | |
---|---|---|
Age | ||
3 | 85 | 16.80% |
4 | 233 | 46.05% |
5 | 123 | 24.30% |
6 | 65 | 12.85% |
Female | 218 | 43.08% |
Number of BELLA sessions | ||
1 | 200 | 39.53% |
2 | 219 | 43.28% |
3 | 69 | 13.67% |
>3 | 18 | 3.56% |
Item Type | Difficulty | Item Count | % |
---|---|---|---|
Partial Credit | Too easy (>90) | 1 | 1.61% |
Acceptable (10–90) | 58 | 93.55% | |
Too hard (<10) | 3 | 4.84% | |
Binary | Too easy (>90) | 23 | 16.20% |
Acceptable (10–90) | 117 | 82.39% | |
Too hard (<10) | 2 | 1.41% |
Item Types | Number of Items | Mean | SD | Minimum | Maximum |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Partial Credit Items | |||||
Overall Discrimination | 62 | 0.2507 | 0.1328 | −0.05 | 0.5476 |
Analytical | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Creative | 60 | 0.259 | 0.1266 | −0.05 | 0.5476 |
Literacy | 14 | 0.2194 | 0.1324 | 0 | 0.44 |
Mathematics | 12 | 0.2438 | 0.1537 | −0.05 | 0.4231 |
Science | 36 | 0.2652 | 0.1272 | 0.0171 | 0.5476 |
Binary Items | |||||
Overall Discrimination | 142 | 0.3543 | 0.159 | 0 | 0.88 |
Analytical | 60 | 0.3424 | 0.1493 | 0.0286 | 0.7424 |
Creative | 4 | 0.4396 | 0.5077 | 0 | 0.8889 |
Practical | 78 | 0.359 | 0.1367 | 0.0572 | 0.7024 |
Literacy | 24 | 0.3422 | 0.1148 | 0.1064 | 0.5294 |
Mathematics | 28 | 0.3815 | 0.225 | 0 | 0.8889 |
Science | 72 | 0.3466 | 0.1522 | 0.0286 | 0.7424 |
Social/Emotional | 18 | 0.3587 | 0.1147 | 0.1765 | 0.5238 |
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Tan, M.; Kilani, H.; Markov, I.; Hein, S.; Grigorenko, E.L. Assessing Cognitive Skills in Early Childhood Education Using a Bilingual Early Language Learner Assessment Tool. J. Intell. 2023, 11, 143. https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence11070143
Tan M, Kilani H, Markov I, Hein S, Grigorenko EL. Assessing Cognitive Skills in Early Childhood Education Using a Bilingual Early Language Learner Assessment Tool. Journal of Intelligence. 2023; 11(7):143. https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence11070143
Chicago/Turabian StyleTan, Mei, Hechmi Kilani, Ilia Markov, Sascha Hein, and Elena L. Grigorenko. 2023. "Assessing Cognitive Skills in Early Childhood Education Using a Bilingual Early Language Learner Assessment Tool" Journal of Intelligence 11, no. 7: 143. https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence11070143
APA StyleTan, M., Kilani, H., Markov, I., Hein, S., & Grigorenko, E. L. (2023). Assessing Cognitive Skills in Early Childhood Education Using a Bilingual Early Language Learner Assessment Tool. Journal of Intelligence, 11(7), 143. https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence11070143