All About the ITERS-R

This is a resource guide designed to be used with the ECERS-R and ITERS-R assessments. They provide important information on why each item is important, what is needed to meet the requirements of each item and how to score.

Debby Cryer

Ph.D, is a Scientist at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, Univesity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has taught in a variety of early childhood programs, and has studied and written about early childhood program quality for more than twenty years. Thelma Harris, Ph.D, is Director of Curriculum Development at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute and Research Professor in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she has been since 1975. She earned an M.A. in Child Development and a Ph.D in Early Childhood Education at the University of California at Berkely. Cathy Riley, M.S. is a lead trainer on the Environment Rating Scales and program coordinator at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she has worked for the past 15 years. She has a M.S. in Early Childhood Education.