Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale

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Front cover of the spiral edition.
Front cover of the spiral edition.

Commonly known as the ECERS, this evaluative system assists early childhood professionals in determining the level of optimization of an environment in which young children learn. It was developed jointly by Thelma Harms, Richard Clifford, and Debby Cryer from the University of North Carolina


A revised edition od ECERS was published in 1997. The revisons were made in relationship to the development of the National Association for the Education of Young children(NAEYC, 1984) and Developmenatally Appropriate Practices(Bredekemp,1986)