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Direct linkJesse Bruhn; Emily Emick – Blueprint Labs, 2023
This paper reviews research on the design and effectiveness of preschools in the United States. Three randomized controlled trials that enrolled roughly 350 total children in demonstration studies during the 1960s and 1970s shape much of the current discussion of preschool. We examine what these studies and more recent ones based on random…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Curriculum, Preschool Education, Preschool Evaluation
Peer reviewedJames, Adrienne Brant – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2008
Traditional approaches to education and youth work were transformed by two psychologists who came to the United States as Hitler rose to power. Practical theorist Kurt Lewin challenged mechanistic ideas of behavior by studying children in their natural "life space." Theory practitioner Fritz Redl applied life space concepts to work with…
Descriptors: Psychologists, Experimental Programs, Adolescents, Theories
Gettinger, Maribeth; Stoiber, Karen Callan – Journal of School Psychology, 2006
This study examined the effects of functional assessment and positive behavior support on classroom behaviors of young children. An experimental program, entitled FACET, was implemented by school-based teams in pre-kindergarten through first-grade classrooms. Observations of child behaviors and classroom variables were compared between…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Young Children, Functional Behavioral Assessment, Behavior Modification
