A survey of 955 early childhood practitioners in one Midwestern state was conducted to assess judgments of their desired use versus their current use or implementation of 10 sets of recommended practices from the Division for Early Childhood of the Council of Exceptional Children. Practitioners from early intervention, preschool, preschool special education, Early Head Start, Head Start, and other early childhood programs participated in the study. Results indicated large effect size differences in practitioners’ judgments of their desired versus current use of the practices, differences in terms in which practices were considered most valued and most frequently used by the practitioners, and a continued gap in the use of practices compared with results reported in similar studies conducted 15 and 22 years ago, respectively. The findings are discussed in terms of the need to adopt and use effective professional development practices to ensure practitioner use of valued practices and the need to develop a comprehensive system of personnel development to provide an infrastructure to support practitioners’ knowledge and skills of recommended practices.

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从业者对 2014 年早期儿童推荐做法部的期望和当前使用的评估

对中西部一个州的 955 名幼儿从业者进行了一项调查，以评估对他们的期望用途与目前使用或实施来自特殊儿童委员会幼儿部的 10 套推荐做法的判断。来自早期干预、学前班、学前特殊教育、Early Head Start、Head Start 和其他早期儿童项目的从业者参与了这项研究。结果表明，从业者对实践的期望与当前使用的判断存在巨大的效应大小差异，实践被认为最有价值和最常被从业者使用的术语存在差异，以及实践的使用与结果相比持续存在差距分别在 15 年和 22 年前进行的类似研究中报道。