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Sykes, Gary; Bell, Courtney; Shukla, Bhavya – ETS Center for Research on Human Capital and Education, 2020
This is the second in a series of policy notes and related publications exploring prospects for developing indicators of teaching quality. The first examined federal databases that include information about teachers, demonstrating that almost none of the measures in these datasets provides indication of teaching quality. This policy note takes the…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Quality, Equal Education, Educational Indicators
Friedman-Krauss, Allison H.; Connors, Maia C.; Morris, Pamela A. – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2017
Attending high-quality early childhood care and education (ECCE) is associated with higher cognitive and social-emotional skills, especially for children growing up in poverty, but access to high-quality ECCE is limited. This study capitalizes on the random assignment design of the Head Start Impact Study to better understand whether the…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality, Program Evaluation
Dong, Nianbo – American Journal of Evaluation, 2015
Researchers have become increasingly interested in programs' main and interaction effects of two variables (A and B, e.g., two treatment variables or one treatment variable and one moderator) on outcomes. A challenge for estimating main and interaction effects is to eliminate selection bias across A-by-B groups. I introduce Rubin's causal model to…
Descriptors: Probability, Statistical Analysis, Research Design, Causal Models
Powell, Douglas R.; Diamond, Karen E.; Burchinal, Margaret R.; Koehler, Matthew J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2010
Effects of a 1-semester professional development (PD) intervention that included expert coaching with Head Start teachers were investigated in a randomized controlled trial with 88 teachers and 759 children. Differential effects of technologically mediated (remote) versus in-person (on-site) delivery of individualized coaching with teachers also…
Descriptors: Intervention, Oral Language, Disadvantaged Youth, Emergent Literacy
Yazejian, Noreen; Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen S. – NHSA Dialog, 2009
This quasi-experimental study evaluated the effects of a supplementary preschool classroom music and movement curriculum on Head Start children's language skills. The curriculum consisted of sequenced music and movement activities conducted by outside interventionists. The evaluation compared the language skills of children attending either…
Descriptors: Intervention, Music Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Phonological Awareness
Hallam, Rena; Grisham-Brown, Jennifer; Gao, Xin; Brookshire, Robyn – Early Childhood Research & Practice, 2007
Twenty-six Head Start preschool classrooms participated in a yearlong intervention designed to link the Head Start Child Outcomes Framework with authentic assessment practices. Teachers in intervention and pilot classrooms implemented an assessment approach that incorporated the use of a curriculum-based assessment tool, the development of…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers
Administration for Children & Families, 2006
The Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) collects data on a nationally representative sample of Head Start programs, classrooms, teachers, parents, and children examining the quality and effects of Head Start. Three waves of data collection have occurred: in 1997, 2000, and 2003. Information presented in this publication is…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Learning Activities, Disadvantaged Youth, Young Children
Evangelou, Maria; Sylva, Kathy – Early Childhood Research & Practice, 2007
Efforts to improve the educational achievement of children, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds, are at the heart of current government policies in the United Kingdom. The Peers Early Education Partnership (PEEP) is an intervention that, since 1995, has worked directly with parents and caregivers of children from infancy to 5 years of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Program Evaluation, Disadvantaged Youth