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Brunner, Josie – Online Submission, 2011
Although pre-K students' average gains on the 2010-2011 Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT in English, TVIP in Spanish) significantly differed by vertical team, these differences were attributed more to the students' school or classroom rather than to the vertical team in which a school resided. [For "Prekindergarten Evaluation Series,…
Descriptors: School Districts, Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Program Evaluation
Brunner, Josie – Online Submission, 2011
Although more than a third of tested pre-K students (37%) entered AISD one standard deviation below the national average in receptive vocabulary, the AISD pre-K program accelerated these students' growth by nearly twice the national average by the end of the 2010-2011 school year.
Descriptors: School Districts, Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Program Evaluation
Brunner, Josie – Online Submission, 2010
This is the full report, and a separate research brief also was published. Austin Independent School District (AISD) served 5,450 pre-K students in 2009-2010. Approximately 70% of sampled English-speaking pre-K students and 74% of sampled Spanish-speaking pre-K students had faster than the expected growth rate on an assessment of receptive…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, School Districts, Spanish Speaking, Receptive Language
Seeman, Elissa – Online Submission, 2008
The purpose of this study was to examine the short-term effects of a music education intervention on the receptive language skills of students in an at-risk early childhood program. The target population was nine students ages 3, 4, and 5 in an at-risk, inclusive classroom in a Chicago public school. The problem of language delay is indicated in…
Descriptors: Music Education, Intervention, Music Activities, Delayed Speech
Curry, Janice – Online Submission, 2009
Austin Independent School District provided full-day prekindergarten to 5,196 4-year-olds in 2008-2009 at 66 schools. Seventy percent or more of students made measureable gains on a test of receptive vocabulary, and average gains showed growth about two times greater than that expected for 4-year-olds after a 7-month period.
Descriptors: Preschool Education, School Schedules, School Districts, Achievement Tests