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Hamre, Bridget; Henry, Anne; Locasale-Crouch, Jennifer; Downer, Jason; Pianta, Robert; Burchinal, Peg; Howes, Carollee; LaParo, Karen; Scott-Little, Catherine – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2011
The National Center for Research on Early Childhood Education's (NCRECE) program of research is a series of experimental studies of specific approaches to training early childhood (EC) educators to be effective in implementation of curriculum and instructional interactions focused on promoting language and literacy skills, two domains that operate…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Early Childhood Education, Course Content, Literacy Education
Klein, Alice; Starkey, Prentice; Molfese, Victoria; Brown, Elizabeth Todd; Molfese, Dennis – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2009
The Scale-Up Pre-K Mathematics project, was conducted at a customary program-wide level of scale in Head Start and state-funded preschool programs in California and Kentucky/Indiana. The objectives of this randomized field trial were twofold: (1) to determine whether the intervention, the Pre-K Mathematics curriculum, continues to be effective…
Descriptors: Mathematics Curriculum, Mathematics Education, School Readiness, Intervention
Gropen, Jess; Clark-Chiarelli, Nancy; Chalufour, Ingrid; Hoisington, Cindy; Eggers-Pierola, Costanza – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2009
Over the past three years, the authors' team at Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC) has been researching a professional development program in science, "Foundations of Science Literacy" ("FSL"), for preschool lead and assistant Head Start teachers in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Year 1 was a pilot year, so it is the…
Descriptors: Assignments, Science Activities, Disadvantaged Youth, Physical Sciences