Supplemental Material for Development and Validation of a Battery of Emotionally Evocative Film Clips for Use With Young Children

The purpose of this study is to develop and validate a faith scale for young children. Data were collected from 424 young children, who had not yet entered elementary school, with their parents rating their faith level. Sixty-five preliminary questions were formulated under three domains―knowing, loving, and living—that were based on existing studies related to faith. The questions were reduced to 40 through a content validity test conducted by a seven-member panel. These questions were subsequently refined through pilot study, main survey, and statistical analysis. After exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, the scale was finalized, comprising 25 questions that can be categorized into three factors: confessional faith life, missional life, and distinctive life. This scale is expected to measure early childhood faith and prove the effectiveness of Christian education programs on a young child’s faith development.

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Development and Validation of the Environment Preservation Knowledge Scale for Young Children based on Sustainable Development Education

Journal of Children s Literature and Education ◽

10.22154/jcle.17.2.20 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 17 (2) ◽

pp. 459-491

Author(s):

Yeon Seung Lee ◽

Suk Kyung Cha

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Young Children ◽

Development Education ◽

Knowledge Scale ◽

Development And Validation ◽

Sustainable Development Education ◽

Environment Preservation

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Young Children (4–8 years) in Group Care: Development and Validation of a Group Climate Instrument

Child Indicators Research ◽

10.1007/s12187-017-9496-1 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 11 (6) ◽

pp. 1769-1780

Author(s):

E. L. L. Strijbosch ◽

G. H. P. van der Helm ◽

G. J. J. M. Stams ◽

I. B. Wissink

Keyword(s):

Young Children ◽

Group Care ◽

Group Climate ◽

Development And Validation ◽

Care Development

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TechCheck

Teaching Computational Thinking and Coding to Young Children - Advances in Early Childhood and K-12 Education ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-7308-2.ch013 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 250-264

Author(s):

Emily Relkin

Keyword(s):

Young Children ◽

Psychometric Properties ◽

Prior Knowledge ◽

Developmentally Appropriate ◽

Computational Thinking ◽

Control Structures ◽

Development And Validation

This chapter describes the development and validation of TechCheck, a novel instrument for rapidly assessing computational thinking (CT) skills in 5-9 years old children. TechCheck assessments can be administered in classroom or online settings regardless of whether students have prior knowledge of coding. This assessment probes six domains of CT described by Bers (2018) as developmentally appropriate for young children including algorithms, modularity, control structures, representation, hardware/software, and debugging. TechCheck demonstrates good psychometric properties and can readily distinguish among young children with different CT abilities.

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