A new video assessment tool that can inform teacher selection and hiring has implications for education reform, a new study concludes. The researchers say there is a growing focus as part of ...

Even if your goal is to make sure that 4-year-olds don't get too comfortable, CLASS -- the Classroom Assessment Scoring System -- seems like a clumsy approach.

We are using the observation instrument, CLASS (Classroom Assessment Scoring System), to assess interactions between teachers and children in preschool classrooms as a professional development tool.

Using the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, we observed 26 teachers in low- and high-track classrooms in spring 2012. We found that teachers, on the whole, structured generative rules that ...

Quality of teacher–child interactions is central to prekindergarten children's learning. In the United States, the quality of teacher–child interactions is commonly assessed using the teaching through ...