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As one of the highest quality curriculum-based assessments available, AEPS® can be trusted to help you meet both state and national guidelines for early learning and developmentally appropriate practice.
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Do You Need AEPS to Be Aligned with Your State's Standards?
If you would like information about alignment to your state's early learning standards, please contact us. |
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Alignment with state standards is under way
We are currently aligning the AEPS Test and Curriculum with each state's individual set of early learning standards. As alignments are completed, they will be posted here as free PDF downloads. Each alignment has face validity; experienced early childhood experts closely examined the state's early learning standards and correlated them to AEPS, and the correlation was then verified by a second expert.
If you have conducted an alignment between AEPS and your state's standards, we invite you to contact us for possible coordination and review. Why alignment is only the first step
AEPS is backed by impeccable research, and its alignments with state standards are no exception. While alignments with face validity are a good first step in making sure that any curriculum you choose supports your state's early learning standards, they ultimately need to be validated by empirical research in order to have real meaning for your program. The developers of AEPS have undertaken a large research project to create an empirically valid alignment of AEPS with the Big Ideas—the common ideas and standards that cut across early learning standards around the country. When the Big Ideas project is complete, the AEPS developers can work with your state to create an empirically valid alignment to its specific standards.
AEPS aligns closely with best practice
In addition to state's early learning standards, AEPS meets the recommended practices for Early Intervention and Early Childhood Special Education as outlined by the Division for Early Childhood (DEC) of the Council for Exceptional Children and the Recommended Practices for Assessment of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) and the National Association of Early Childhood Specialists in State Departments of Education (NAECS/SDE).
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