Head Start enhances school readiness during preschool, but effects diminish after children transition into kindergarten. Designed to promote sustained gains, the Research-based Developmentally Informed (REDI) Parent program (REDI-P) provided home visits before and after the kindergarten transition, giving parents evidence-based learning games,…

Investigates relationships between social status, social interaction, and knowledge of social relationships in preschool children. Forty-seven middle-class preschoolers were assessed on a sociometric test of popularity, an observational measure of social participation, a measure of referential communication, and an emotion-attribution task.…

Critically evaluates in terms of predictive and concurrent validity a widely used method of identifying children at risk in peer relations. This method emphasizes children's total rate of peer interaction, regardless of the quality or skillfulness of the interaction. Recommendations are given for future research in this area. (Author/DB)