Called the Sustained Shared Thinking and Emotional Well-being (SSTEW) scale, it will build on the ITERS and ECERS, which consider adult-child interactions alongside the planning and organisation of learning spaces, to provide a deeper focus on the adult role.
Its authors are Prof Iram Siraj, University College London (UCL), Prof Edward Melhuish, of the Universities of Oxford and Birbeck, University of London, and Denise Kingston, a senior lecturer at the University of Brighton and research officer at UCL. The new scale was unveiled at this week's 4Children Early Childhood Matters conference.
SSTEW has evolved out of earlier scales and research such as the EPPSE (Effective Primary, Pre-School and Secondary Education) longitudinal study and has a similar format to its predecessors — in this instance, with five sub-scales and 14 items (see below).
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