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Brekke Stangeland, Elisabeth; Lundetrae, Kjersti; Reikerås, Elin – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2018
A body of studies, which are mostly based on parental reports, have documented gender differences in early language proficiency, and girls tend to outperform boys in both language production and language comprehension. In this study, staff in Norwegian Early Childhood Education and Care institutions observed language comprehension, word…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Parent Attitudes, Gender Differences, Language Proficiency
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Goodson, Barbara; Wolf, Anne; Bell, Steve; Turner, Herb; Finney, Pamela B. – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2011
This study is the first randomized study of the impacts of the vocabulary instruction program Kindergarten PAVEd for Success (K-PAVE) (Hamilton and Schwanenflugel 2011) on low-income students in kindergarten and grade 1. The study has two components. The first component is a test of the impacts of one year of the K-PAVE vocabulary instruction in…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Observation, Vocabulary, Teacher Surveys
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Barbara Goodson; Anne Wolf; Steve Bell; Herb Turner; Pamela B. Finney – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2010
State education departments, in discussions with Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Southeast, identified low reading achievement as a critical issue for their students and expressed an interest in identifying effective strategies to promote the foundational skills in young students that might improve reading achievement. The Mississippi…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Intervention, Reading Aloud to Others, Observation