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Sammons, Pamela; Sylva, Kathy; Hall, James; Evangelou, Maria; Smees, Rebecca – Oxford Review of Education, 2023
This paper discusses the challenges facing a national evaluation of an early years intervention programme, Sure Start Children's Centres (SSCCs), that was implemented across England in the first decade of the 21st century. The paper describes the rationale for the evaluation's mixed methods research design and the ecological theoretical approach…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Intervention, Equal Education
Children's Outcomes through Second Grade: Findings from Year 4 of Georgia's Pre-K Longitudinal Study
Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen; Van Manen, Karen; Mokrova, Irina; Burchinal, Margaret – FPG Child Development Institute, 2019
In 2011-2012, the Georgia legislature funded a series of ongoing studies to evaluate Georgia's Pre-K Program. The 2016-2017 Georgia's Pre-K Program Evaluation focuses on the results of the fourth year of this longitudinal study, through second grade. The purpose of the current evaluation study was to examine longitudinal outcomes for children…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Education, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness
Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen; Van Manen, Karen; Mokrova, Irina; Burchinal, Margaret – FPG Child Development Institute, 2019
In 2011-2012, the Georgia legislature funded a series of ongoing studies to evaluate Georgia's Pre-K Program. The 2016-2017 Georgia's Pre-K Program Evaluation focuses on the results of the fourth year of this longitudinal study, through second grade. The purpose of the current evaluation study was to examine longitudinal outcomes for children…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Education, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness
Piper, Benjamin; Sitabkhan, Yasmin; Nderu, Evangeline – Global Education Review, 2018
Given the dearth of research on early numeracy interventions in low- and middle-income countries, this paper presents the instructional methodology and impact results of the Tayari program. Tayari is a preprimary intervention in Kenya (2014-2019) that prepares children aged four and five for entry into primary school by providing materials for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education, Numeracy, Mathematics Skills
Bowne, Jocelyn Bonnes; Magnuson, Katherine A.; Schindler, Holly S.; Duncan, Greg J.; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2017
This study uses data from a comprehensive database of U.S. early childhood education program evaluations published between 1960 and 2007 to evaluate the relationship between class size, child-teacher ratio, and program effect sizes for cognitive, achievement, and socioemotional outcomes. Both class size and child-teacher ratio showed nonlinear…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Class Size, Early Childhood Education, Teacher Student Ratio
Kluczniok, Katharina; Anders, Yvonne; Sechtig, Jutta; Rossbach, Hans-Guenther – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
As a result of public discussions regarding Germany's standing on international rankings of student achievement, increased attention was focused on enhancing cognitive stimulation in preschools. There are some concerns that preschool curricula that focus more on cognitive stimulation rather than on socio-emotional skills might neglect the…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Academic Education, Social Development, Emotional Development
Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen S.; Garwood, Justin D.; Mokrova, Irina L. – FPG Child Development Institute, 2016
This executive summary presents results from a study that began in 2013-2014, and involves a longitudinal design to follow a sample of 1,169 children (139 Spanish-speaking DLLs) who attended 199 randomly-selected Georgia's Pre-K classrooms. These findings focus on results from the second year of the study, which included 1,034 of these children…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Education, Kindergarten
Rolfhus, Eric; Clarke, Ben; Decker, Lauren E.; Williams, Chuck; Dimino, Joseph – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2013
Large scale longitudinal research (Morgan, Farkas, & Wu, 2009) and a meta-analysis (Duncan et al., 2007) have found that early mathematics achievement is a strong predictor of later mathematics achievement. In fact, end of Kindergarten and end of grade 1 mathematics achievement on ECLS-K and similar mathematics proficiency measures tends to be…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Mathematics Instruction, Intervention
Schmitz, Stephanie L.; Loy, Sedona – Reading Improvement, 2014
As the ability to read proficiently is essential for success both in and out of the school setting, literacy has become an area of particular focus in today's classrooms. While recent assessments indicate that students are making progress in the area of reading (e.g., National Assessment of Educational Progress [NAEP], 2011), there continues to be…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Reading Achievement, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness
Eden, Sigal; Ingber, Sara – American Annals of the Deaf, 2014
The study examined the efficacy of an early intervention program to improve children's sequential time perception through virtual versus pictorial training in arranging episodes of temporal scripts. The researchers examined 65 deaf and hard of hearing children ages 4-7 years who were divided into two groups: (a) virtual environments technological…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Deafness, Partial Hearing, Early Intervention
Clarke, Brandy L.; Sheridan, Susan M.; Kim, Elizabeth M.; Kupzyk, Kevin A.; Knoche, Lisa L.; Ransom, Kelly A.; Sjuts, Tara M. – Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools, 2012
Children in poverty are at greater risk of academic failure due to impoverished living conditions and a lack of parental nurturance. Mothers' engagement in children's learning can be undermined by maternal depression, placing children at risk for cognitive and motor delays. With intervention, parents experiencing poverty and depression can…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, School Readiness, Intervention, Parent Child Relationship
Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen; Schaaf, Jennifer; Hildebrandt, Lisa; LaForett, Dore – FPG Child Development Institute, 2013
The North Carolina Pre-Kindergarten Program (NC Pre-K) is a state-funded initiative for at-risk 4-year-olds, designed to provide a high quality, classroom-based educational program during the year prior to kindergarten entry. Children are eligible for NC Pre-K based on age, family income (at or below 75% of state median income), and other risk…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Children, At Risk Students, State Programs
Denton, Carolyn A.; Tolar, Tammy D.; Fletcher, Jack M.; Barth, Amy E.; Vaughn, Sharon; Francis, David J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
This article describes a randomized controlled trial conducted to evaluate the effects of an intensive, individualized, Tier 3 reading intervention for second grade students who had previously experienced inadequate response to quality first grade classroom reading instruction (Tier 1) and supplemental small-group intervention (Tier 2). Also…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Intervention, Student Characteristics, Grade 2
Mamantov, Tonya Jean – ProQuest LLC, 2013
A challenge for todays instructional leaders is identifying the most effective method of educating English Language Learners (ELLs) who participate in the English as a Second Language (ESL) program. The primary purpose of the study was to compare the effectiveness of three programs used for ESL students in twelve elementary schools in a Urban…
Descriptors: Investigations, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English Language Learners
Jinnah, Hamida Amirali; Walters, Lynda Henley – Early Childhood Research & Practice, 2008
Program evaluation practices in early childhood care and education have been underdeveloped compared to the larger field of educational evaluation. The inclination not to include parental views in evaluation is mainly a result of the problem of positive response bias. Researchers who study client satisfaction with educational or child care…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Parent Attitudes, Parent Participation, Multivariate Analysis
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