Adapting the ECO Summary Form For Specific State Use

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Adapting the ECO Summary Form For Specific State
Use

• Erin Kinavey (AK) Part C
• Dee Gethmann (IA) Birth-5
• April 2006
• Albuquerque, NM

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About Alaska

• Building a Part C outcomes measurement system
• Received a GSEG in 2004

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About Iowa

• Building a birth - five outcomes measurement
  system
• Tying outcomes measurement to quality improvement
  efforts for preschool programs

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What prompted your state to adapt the ECO
Child Outcome Summary Form (COSF) AK?

• Programs and parents reacted strongly against a
  numbered rating scale -- it seemed to imply the
  reduction of a childs status or progress to a
  number

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What prompted your state to adapt the ECO Child
Outcome Summary Form (COSF) IA?

• Preferred a 3-point scale (rather than a 7-point
  scale) for reliability purposes

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How did you change the Child Outcomes Summary
Form AK?

• Replaced the numbers on the scale with the
  verbage from each rating category
• Inserted bulleted skills and behaviors for young
  children from our standards to help define each
  outcome

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How did you change the Child Outcomes Summary
Form IA?

• Rating categories respond to the question, Has
  the child reached or maintained skills and
  behaviors across a variety of settings and
  situations that are comparable to same-aged
• peers?
• Rating categories are
• 1) yes, 2) emerging
• or 3) no.

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What will be your process for using the form
AK?

• Five programs are piloting two versions of the AK
  COSF
• Procedures will need to be broad and flexible
• Parent role in the rating process may be
  different across programs

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What will be your process for using the form
IA?

• Rating process will be part of the annual
  IEP/IFSP meeting
• Emphasis is on the use of multiple sources of
  information for ongoing assessment
• A goal of the outcomes work is to
• promote the need for and benefit
• of ongoing assessment

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What are implications for communicating with
families and providers in your state AK? 

• AK Part C will work with the outcomes data and
  the ICC to promote the need for more EI services
• Outcomes data will move the field toward more
  data-based decision making

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What are implications for communicating with
families and providers in your state IA? 

• Crosswalked the three child outcomes to state
  early learning standards, as well as to the
  system used to code goals on IFSPs/IEPs
• Emphasizing outcomes as part of a bigger picture
  one that includes effective
• use of curricula, ongoing
• assessment, and routines-
• based intervention