Detecting and promoting a 0-6 perspective for the providers of educational services for children: developing an instrument

Abstract This article is focused on a research project part of large survey concerning contextual formative evaluation, and it is one of the studies carried out by the pedagogical research group of the University of Pavia (Italy). The research concerns the elaboration of indicators able to support forms of reflexive self-assesment for preschool educators, considered from a continuity perspective (0-6) in order to promote an integration between early childhood services. The main result is methodological: the developing of the tool described in this article. The future steps of the study will evaluate how this tool can affect the professional development of early childhood teachers. Therefore, the theoretical references, the methodology, and the steps that led to the processing of the tool are presented. Finally, the first results of a research in progress are proposed.