
Vasilis GrammatikopoulosInternational Hellenic University · Department of Early Childhood Education and Care
Vasilis Grammatikopoulos
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May 2001 - February 2004
October 1998 - February 2001
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Teacher well-being is a psychological asset for educators, often associated with job engagement and retention. However, sophisticated measures to comprehensively assess teacher well-being are still under investigation. This study explores the factor structure and cross-country comparability of the Teacher Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire (TSWQ) a...
Family-preschool partnership is recognised as an important relationship between parents and teachers contributing to preschool child outcomes which has received increasing attention the last decades. This has led to the development of several tools measuring different aspects of family-preschool partnership. A synthesis of the information according...
The main aim of this study is to explore early childhood teachers’ social self-efficacy in Cyprus, Greece, and Portugal. In addition, this study examines the validity of the factorial structure of the Teachers’ Social Self-Efficacy Scale (TSSES). A sample of 349 early childhood teachers across the three countries participated in this study. An expl...
Professional Development (PD) can be a powerful lever for improving the quality of teacher-child interactions in early childhood education and care (ECEC) and teachers’ feelings of support and competence. However, there is a dearth of studies examining different formats of PD and their links with workplace features. The present study aims to unders...
The current report was prepared within the framework of ProW project (“Promoting Teachers’ Well-being through Positive Behaviour Support in Early Childhood Education”; 2021- 2024) under the ERASMUS + Key Action 3. The project spans the years 2021 to 2024 and operates within the ERASMUS + Key Action 3 framework, focusing on policy cooperation at the...
The current report was prepared in the scope of the ERASMUS + Action ProW (“Promoting Teachers’ Well-being through Positive Behaviour Support in Early Childhood Education”; 2021- 2024). This report is part of Implementation of the Field Trials Work Package 3 and presents the procedures that took place to implement the ProW intervention. This report...
The importance of teachers’ role for students’ learning and development is widely recognized, and the question whether teachers are commitment and satisfy with their teaching profession is often overlooked (Liang & Akiba, 2017). Research evidence showed that positive organizational climate, job autonomy, collective efficacy and job satisfaction are...
Three dimensions of child–teacher relationships (derived from the Student-Teacher Relationship Scale) closeness, conflict and dependency have been conceptualized and investigated. In individualistic cultures a close relationship has been associated with children's academic performance and behavioural adjustment, conflictual relationships have been...
The Preschool Early Numeracy Skills Test–Brief Version (PENS‐B) is a measure of early numeracy skills, developed and mainly used in the United States. The purpose of this study was to examine the factorial validity and measurement invariance across gender of PENS‐B in the Greek educational context. PENS‐B was administered to 906 preschool children...
A consortium of five partners from four European countries (Portugal, Cyprus, Greece, and Ireland) initiated the Erasmus+ project entitled “PBS-ECEC: Implementing Positive Behaviour Support in Early Childhood Education and Care” which aimed to respond to this need by promoting a schoolwide framework in ECEC. Through collaboration between ECEC centr...
This study examined the perceptions of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) professionals about the current status of young children’s behavioural and socioemotional difficulties, their current pedagogical practices in this area and their impact. ECEC teachers’ knowledge and needs in promoting socioemotional learning (SEL) and dealing with cha...
The Home Learning Environment (HLE) plays a prominent role in children’s development. Several measures have been developed to assess its quality; however, most of them seem to mainly focus on specific aspects of the HLE construct. The aim of this study was to develop and validate the Home Learning Environment Questionnaire (HLEQ); and to examine th...
Silva, B., Craveiro, C., Pinheiro, A. & Medeiros, P. (Org.). (2022). Training Perspectives and Experiences in Early Childhood Education. ESEPF.
The "Promoting Teachers Well-being through Positive Behavior Support in Early Childhood Education'' (ProW) is an ERASMUS+ Key Action 3 Policy Experimentation program. The ProW project aims to support early childhood educators, by ensuring that teachers will be trained to manage effectively children’s challenging social behaviours and to enhance the...
An extensive body of literature has shown that professional development (PD) opportunities and working conditions can act as contributors to the provision of high-quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) (OECD, 2012). An important issue in high-quality ECEC relates to supporting and promoting children’s social emotional development and pos...
Teachers’ social self-efficacy is an important construct that has not been examined adequately in education yet. Developing a comprehensive understanding of teachers’ social self-efficacy requires measuring these beliefs in the social domain of teachers’ functioning. This study developed the Teachers’ Social Self-Efficacy Scale (TSSES) scale and in...
The school-wide positive behavior intervention and support (SWPBS) is a three-tier framework, aiming to (a) prevent problem behavior from occurring and (b) intervene effectively with evidence-based strategies when problem behavior occurs. SWPBS has its roots in the theory of Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA), which asserts that each individual's beh...
The current study aims to examine the way in which teachers’ and children’s perceptions about their relationships influence children’s emergent literacy skills. Participants were 913 children and 114 kindergarten teachers within 72 preschool centers from Greece. The measures used were the Student–Teacher Relationship Scale (STRS), the Child Apprais...
Recent literature has shown the reciprocal influences of teacher-student relationships for both teachers and students in primary school. When it comes to early childhood education, very few studies have examined the level and the nature of agreement between teachers’ and students’ perceptions for their dyadic relationships. Using the one-with-many...
This paper presents a brief overview of the literature regarding preschool teachers’ careers and professional development. The main purpose of the part of the study presented here was to conduct a needs-assessment exercise to identify the specific needs for professional development of early childhood teachers’ in Greece. Data were collected through...
This study examines teachers' and children's perceptions of dependency , and their linkages with other relationship dimensions, in a cultural context with a more collectivistic orientation. Additionally, it examines the factorial validity and reliability of the Greek version of the Child Appraisal of Relationship with Teacher Scale (CARTS) and teac...
The School-wide positive behavior interventions and supports (SWPBIS) approach is a three-tier school-wide framework to create a safe and positive school climate, to promote student socio-emotional competencies and teacher effectiveness. The implementation of SWPBIS is related to positive outcomes such as a decrease of students’ behavioral problems...
Examining children’s perspectives about the quality of teacher-child relationships can contribute significantly to our understanding of how the quality of these relationships is developed. The Child Appraisal of the Relationship with the Teacher Scale (CARTS) is a newly developed measure that assesses the quality of teacher-child relationships from...
The main purpose of this study is to prompt reflection on teacher-child relationship assessment and attachment theory on one hand, and the influence of cultural contexts in the development and interpretation of this relationship on the other hand. More specifically, it tackles the question about the central role sociocultural processes and cultural...
Studies revealed that science learning in early childhood is associated with primary and secondary school readiness, improved causal reasoning, increased interest in science in later life, and with long-term effects on academic achievement. Thus, having valid and reliable instruments to assess children's science learning becomes critical in early c...
Self‐reported measures are an easy, time‐efficient, and low‐cost way to collect research data compared to other assessment methods. They are, however, characterized by several limitations regarding the quality and the clarity of the data they produce, especially when they are implemented in education. The main purpose of the current study was to us...
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of a structured, playful activity program on the development of social skills in kindergarten children during break time in the schoolyard. Twenty eight boys and thirty two girls aged from 5 to 6 years old consisted the sample of the present study. The participants were randomly divided into two g...
This chapter includes a brief description of the current framework and challenges related to Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC). It discusses the diversity of the existing terms regarding early childhood education and recent research findings in regard to the effects ECEC quality has on children’s development and well-being. The chapter also...
This chapter offers a brief description of the field of educator professional development and presents research-based evidence regarding the effectiveness of current alternative approaches. It describes the method that the authors propose for the professional development of early childhood educators and focuses on the conclusions drawn from using q...
This chapter provides detailed descriptions of the basic purpose, the goals, the methodology, the participants, and the philosophy of the Early Change project. It presents information about the project’s structure, consortium, and basic aims and discusses the methodology, the instruments, and the training procedures that were implemented during the...
This chapter focuses on the reflections and feedback from the implementation of the Early Change project in Greece. More specifically, it discusses the particular way in which the project was implemented in Greece, presents some experiences of the early childhood teachers who used the observational rating scales and the way that it influenced their...
Teacher-child relationships in early childhood are a fundamental prerequisite for children's social, emotional, and academic development. The Student-Teacher Relationship Scale (STRS) is one of the most widely accepted and used instruments that evaluate the quality of teacher-child relationships. STRS is a 28-item questionnaire that assess three re...
This book provides a global overview of developments and discussion around the evaluation of quality of early childhood education environments, and the professional development of early childhood teachers, during the last decade. It reports on the Early Change project, a European-funded research project with the participation of six European countr...
The Student–Teacher Relationship Scale (STRS) is one of the most extensively used instruments that evaluate the quality of teacher–child relationships. The STRS has a strong theoretical background based on attachment theory and research on parent–child and teacher–child relationships. The purpose of this study was to examine the dimensional structu...
Kindergarten teachers from different cultural backgrounds attribute various meanings to children’s autonomy. There seems to be cultural differences in early childhood education curricula with regard to how a child’s autonomy is described and how it is supported. This qualitative study asks: how do teachers narrate their perspective and pedagogical...
The aim of the current study was to evaluate the relation of early childhood education global quality with children outcomes in the Greek early childhood education settings. Quality was assessed by the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale-Revised (ECERS-R), whereas the Utrecht Early Math Competence Scale and Concepts About Print Scale were used...
The purpose of this study was to examine whether kindergartens and childcare centres differ in terms of educational and caregiving components. More specifically, two aspects of the process quality of the early childhood education and care were examined regarding the ‘Activities’ and the ‘Programme Structure’. A multi-stage sampling technique was ap...
The purpose of the current chapter is to discuss the significance and the evaluation of process and structural quality in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC), and how they are linked with children's and teacher's characteristics. The term “quality” and its relationship with several aspects of early childhood education are presented. Furthermo...
Movement activities are crucial for the health and the overall development of young children. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the quality of the environment for movement activities in the Greek early childhood education (ECE) using the “Movement-Play Scale” (MPS) (Archer & Siraj, 2012; 2015a). This scale consists of three items, with 30 i...
The aim of the current study was to provide a valid and reliable instrument for
the evaluation of the teaching effectiveness in the Greek higher education system. Other
objectives of the study were (a) the examination of the dimensionality and the higher-order
structure of the Greek version of Students’ Evaluation of Educational Quality (SEEQ)
ques...
The aim of the present study is to explore the effect of dramatic play on the development of playfulness in early childhood.
Dramatic play is a psycho-educational and artistic-theatrical procedure which gives children the opportunity to play and communicate in group according to their needs. It motivates the inspiration of ideas and imagination, e...
The aim of the present study is to provide information and suggest ways to improve and evaluate metacognition in early childhood. Metacognition is important to learning and knowledge transfer and preparing students to become lifelong learners is a main aim of schooling. The engagement of young students in metacognitive thinking is considered necess...
From the beginning of the twenty-first century, many authorities and educational
policies had begun to campaign their curricula towards the promotion of
creativity. Researchers’ interest turned to teachers’ perceptions, implicit theories
and beliefs about creativity-related issues which reflect and influence their
behaviours and actions in classroo...
1. Good Practices in Early Childhood Education
The 21st century has been described by many researchers as an era of educational change. The constantly evolving smart technologies, the Internet and the ICTs claim a substantial part of teachers' and children's daily time, interest and practices. It is true that the change that has occurred in educati...
The purpose of this study was to examine kindergarten teachers’ and children’s perceptions of their relationships following a person-centred approach, and to describe patterns of relationships between them. 67 Kindergarten teachers and 403 children completed two measures designed to explore their perceptions of their relations. Four patterns of kin...
The aim of the current study was to examine the assessments of
parents of the quality of early childhood education (ECE) in Greece. Five
hundred and fifty three preschoolers’ parents participated in this study providing
quality and importance ratings based on the Early Childhood Environment
Rating Scale Parent Questionnaire (ECERSPQ) for the aspect...
The aim of the current study was to evaluate the training provided by the project “Early Change: Promoting the professional development of early educators.” The training was conducted in six European countries between October 2012 and January 2013, and the participants were 122 early educators from six different countries. The aim of the training w...
The aim of the current study was to evaluate the training provided by the project “Early Change: Promoting the professional development of early educators.” The training was conducted in six European countries between October 2012 and January 2013, and the participants were 122 early educators from six different countries. The aim of the training w...
The purpose of this chapter was to highlight the contribution of the motor domain in the development of creativity in early childhood education. In this chapter the argument is made that the development of creativity can be equally fostered through movement programs as in other domains such as art or music. The existence of a general mechanism of c...
The current study attempts to integrate parts of program theory and systems-based procedures in educational program evaluation. The educational program that was implemented, called the “Early Steps” project, proposed that physical education can contribute to various educational goals apart from the usual motor skills improvement. Basic elements of...
The purpose of this chapter is to highlight the impact of an ‘‘Early Steps Physical Education Curriculum’’ (ESPEC) in children’s attitudes and awareness toward a healthy lifestyle in early childhood. ESPEC was a
part of a five-European country intervention program named ‘‘Early Steps’’ project. Early Steps project was a European Union funded initia...
Many concerns have been raised about the validity of the existing instruments measuring teachers’
efficacy. Recently, a new instrument to measure teachers’ perceived efficacy has been presented,
namely, the Teachers’ Sense of Efficacy Scale (TSES). The purpose of the present study is to examine
the psychometric properties of the TSES in the Greek e...
The aim of this study was to examine the applicability of a smoking prevention educational resource for secondary education students named ;I do not smoke, I exercise'. The main focus of this program was the promotion of exercise as an alternative behaviour to smoking.
The applicability of the intervention was assessed through questionnaires regard...
The aim of this study was to develop an instrument to evaluate the knowledge of preschool children about healthy lifestyle behavior. The innovation was that the instrument was designed to get direct evidence about healthy lifestyle from children aged 4 -6 years old. Usually, children knowledge is estimated indirectly (parents, teachers), but the cu...
The body of research relating to assessment in education suggests that professional developers and seminar administrators have generally paid little attention to evaluation procedures. Scholars have also been critical of evaluations which use a single data source and have favoured the use of a multiple method design to generate a complete picture o...
Purpose
The purpose of the present study is to examine the applicability of the Teachers' Sense of Efficacy Scale (TSES, Tschannen‐Moran and Woolfolk‐Hoy) to educators teaching an innovative program, namely, the Olympic Education Program. TSES applicability was inferred from examination of the TSES factor structure, its internal consistency and its...
The aim of this study was to examine the underlying structure of the Evaluation Scale of Educational Programme Implementation (ESEPI). The ESEPI consists of six factors that play an important role in educational programme implementation, namely: training, educational material, administration, facilities, relationships and educational procedure. The...
The purpose of the present study was to examine perceived levels of burnout and job satisfaction of Greek early educators, across public and private sector. One hundred and seventy eight childhood educators participated in the study. 108 were working in the public sector, 67 in private sector, whereas three did not respond. Participants were admini...
The Service Quality Scale, developed to evaluate perceived service quality in sport services in Greece, was administrated to 389 participants, 208 men and 181 women. Their mean age was 36.4 yr. (SD = 8.7). A confirmatory factor analysis did not support the prior five-factor solution. When the outcome dimension was removed, a four-factor model appea...
The aim of this study was to examine the underlying structure of the Special Event Volunteer Motivation Scale (SEVMS; Farrell, Johnston, & Twynam, 1998) in a Greek context. The sample consisted of 272 volunteers from the 2001 Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) Children’s Summer Camps. Participants completed a Greek version of the SEVMS. Confi...
The purpose of the present study was to examine the construct validity and predictive utility of the reasoned action and planned behavior theory for predicting intentions to participate as volunteer in major sport events, like Olympic Games. Three hundred and six undergraduate students completed self-administered questionnaires. The sample was rand...
Evaluation as a distinct scientific area has been appeared recently. The evaluation development has been started in the USA and the United Kingdom in the middle of sixties (60’) and grew in the eighties (Worthen & Sanders, 1987). The fundamental setting of the evaluation development was education. School curricula were the first objects of the init...
This study was conducted to provide further information regarding factors associated with educational evaluation, using a qualitative approach. Fitly-five interviews were carried out with school principals. The results of the present study supported the notion that the qualitative methods could provide information that quantitative procedures could...
The aim of this study was to develop an instrument for evaluating how an education program has been implemented. Such evaluation can provide insight into the effectiveness of a program. Examined here was the Olympic Education Program used in Greek schools since 2000. In it, students learn the history of the Olympic games and the importance of exerc...
The purpose of the current study was to implement a newly proposed evaluation method (Dimitropoulos, 1999), that is, the dynamic evaluation approach in the field of education. The dynamic approach was applied in order to evaluate the Olympic Education Program in Greece. The results of the present field study were encouraging. Dynamic evaluation app...
The Professional Development Evaluation Form, developed to evaluate training of physical education teachers for the Olympic education program in Greece, was administered to 438 physical educators (205 men and 233 women; M age=32.2 yr., SD= 9.1). A confirmatory factor analysis indicated an adequate fit of the proposed model.
The importance of evaluating educators' professional development is reflected in policy documents (National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, 1996), as well as in numerous articles and publications (Guskey and Humberman, 1995; Lieberman, 1995a; Sparks, 1995). It is also apparent in the everyday conversations of educators (Rallis and Zaja...
This study was designed to examine the underlying structure of the Children's Playfulness Scale (CPS). The CPS was administered to 602 children who were randomly divided into two groups (calibration and validation group). The calibration group (n= 279) included 137 boys and 142 girls, and the validation group (n= 323) included 162 boys and 161 girl...
This study was designed to examine the underlying structure of the Children’s Playfulness Scale
(CPS). The CPS was administered to 602 children who were randomly divided into two groups
(calibration and validation group). The calibration group (n = 279) included 137 boys and 142
girls, and the validation group (n = 323) included 162 boys and 161 gi...