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Direct linkLaura M. Justice; Hui Jiang; Julie Planke; Kelly Purtell; Logan Pelfrey; Rebecca Dore – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2025
Background: Home-visiting programs are an often-used intervention for supporting the well-being of families with young children, and there is long-standing interest among researchers in ensuring the effectiveness of this practice. Especially, retention and attrition play important roles in achieving desired outcomes of the intervention. Objective:…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Preschool Children, Kindergarten, School Transition
Peer reviewedErika Gaylor; Elisa Garcia; Xin Wei; Madeline Cincebeaux – Grantee Submission, 2024
Research consistently shows that among young children, poor social skills and problem behaviors can lead to poor relationships with teachers and peers (Boivin et al., 1995), higher risk of academic failure (Buhs et al., 2006), and higher school dropout (Gilliam, 2005). Moreover, prekindergarten (PreK) and kindergarten (K) teachers report feeling…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Social Emotional Learning, Urban Schools, Rural Schools
Mark Fredrickson; Ben B. Hansen – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2021
Context: Assessments of baseline equivalency of intervention and control groups, "balance," play a critical role in evaluating educational interventions. The highest What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) of the Institute of Educational Studies (IES) standard for educational studies, "Meets WWC Design Standards Without Reservations,"…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Intervention
Download full textJessica Whittaker; Mable B. Kinzie; Virginia Vitiello; Jamie DeCoster; Christina Mulcahy; Emily A. Barton – Grantee Submission, 2020
This randomized controlled trial examined effects of the MyTeachingPartner-Math/Science intervention on the quality and quantity of teachers' mathematics and science instruction, and children's mathematics and science outcomes in 140 pre-kindergarten classrooms. Teachers participated in the intervention for two years with consecutive cohorts of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Mathematics Instruction, Science Instruction, Preschool Children
Jessica V. Whittaker; Mable B. Kinzie; Virginia Vitiello; Jamie DeCoster; Christina Mulcahy; Emily A. Barton – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2020
This randomized controlled trial examined effects of the MyTeachingPartner-Math/Science intervention on the quality and quantity of teachers' mathematics and science instruction, and children's mathematics and science outcomes in 140 pre-kindergarten classrooms. Teachers participated in the intervention for two years with consecutive cohorts of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Intervention, Mathematics Instruction, Science Instruction
Elizabeth A. D. Wacker; Shauna L. Rienks; Julie S. McCrae – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2018
Identifying effective literacy interventions for teachers of very young children is important, but it is not easy. In this case study, we share our experiences implementing a quasi-experimental evaluation of an early literacy program. We describe the design and context of the study and discuss three key issues that we encountered with data…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Early Childhood Education
Fernandez, Melanie A.; Eyberg, Sheila M. – Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention, 2005
We review existing studies of attrition in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), an empirically supported treatment for preschool-aged children with disruptive behavior disorders. Variables identified as pretreatment predictors of attrition in a statistically derived search for pretreatment predictors included maternal distress, negative…
Descriptors: Health Services, Behavior Disorders, Interaction, Parents
