Assessment

Academic Readiness for Children (ARCH) - Turkey

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The Academic Readiness of Children in Arabic (ARCH-A) and Turkish (ARCH-T) is a measure that was designed to assess 8 domains of school readiness - visual perception, auditory perception, attention and memory, problem solving, basic concept skills, motor skills, social-emotional skills, and self-care - through a combination of child-completed performance tasks and parent-report survey questions. In its current form, it is intended to provide data for formative and program evaluation purposes, although future testing will evaluate its suitability for use as a screening tool.

For more information, please contact Dr. Selçuk Şirin at sirins@nyu.edu.

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Evidence Snapshot

Summary

Much of the evidence is positive, and we are somewhat confident in the stability of the evidence. The small sample size, convenience sampling, and missing data may produce results that are unique to this dataset. Given that there is clear guidance on how the measure can be revised, we preliminarily recommend this measure for its specified purpose(s) with caution, suggesting revisions and additional testing with a larger, representative sample.

Where

Türkiye

Sample

160 Turkish children and caregivers and 160 Syrian refugee children and caregivers ages 4 - 8

Measure Snapshot

For what?

Formative feedback

About what?

Social-emotional Skills

How?

Paper/Pencil format

Respondant

Child, Parent

By what method?

Observation, Performance-based assessmen

Resource Info

Published

21 October 2019

Published by

New York University (NYU)

Bahçeşehir University, Hacettepe University

Authored by

Selçuk Şirin, Tülin Güler-Yildiz, Clare Clingain, Sibel Baykut, Derya Şirin

Topic(s)

Literacy and Communication

Numeracy and Mathematics

Social and Emotional Learning

Geographic Focus

Türkiye

Use:

Program evaluation, Formative feedback

Resource Category:

Social-emotional Skills, Academic Subject Matter Skills, Physical Skills and Health

Resources

Instructions (187.5 KB)

English

Evidence Report (1.87 MB)

English

ARCH (Arabic) (11.94 MB)

Arabic

ARCH (Turkish) (26.41 MB)

Turkish