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Westinghouse Learning Corp., New York, NY. – 1969
The Westinghouse Learning Corporation and Ohio University carried out a study on the impact of Head Start for the Office of Economic Opportunity. The main inquiry of the study concerned the difference between Head Start first, second, and third graders and non-Head Start first, second, and third graders in intellectual and social-personal…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Compensatory Education, Federal Programs
Burgess, Joanne – 1977
This study sought to determine the mean differences in readiness test scores of three groups of children: (1) children whose parents volunteered to particpate in a training program and received the training before their children were tested (Experimental Group); (2) children whose parents volunteered to participate in the training program and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Language Acquisition, Parent Child Relationship