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Fact Sheet: Personnel Prep - Study VIII At a Glance (Volume 8, Number 1)

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At a Glance - Vol. 8 No. 1 December 2008. Study VIII: Alignment of Early Childhood Special Education Higher Education Curriculum with National Personnel Standards and State Certification Policies. This study was conducted to determine the extent to which institutions of higher education (IHE) Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE) curricula align with DEC, CEC, and NAEYC (as appropriate) personnel standards. A previous Center study (The Center to Inform Policy and Practice in Personnel Preparation for Early Intervention and Preschool Education, 2008) identified the following certification models in ECSE: (1) ECSE, (2) Special Education, (3) Blended Early Childhood Education (ECE/ECSE), (4) ECSE endorsement on ECE or special education certification, (5) ECE endorsement on special education certification and completed an item-by-item content analysis comparing state certification standards. Three states were randomly selected per model. As a follow-up to that analysis, IHEs in those

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early childhood, special education, higher education, curriculum, national standards

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