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Bereiter, Carl – Harvard Educ Rev, 1969
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Heredity, Individual Differences, Intellectual Development
Download full textLarson, Daro E. – 1969
The language, intellectual, and social deficits of economically deprived children are the targets of a 4-year study designed to follow the educational progress of a group of deprived children from preschool through grade 3. This document reports on the preschool year, the first phase of the longitudinal study, which investigated whether or not…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged, Intelligence
Cunningham, Grover; Pierce-Jones, John – 1969
In this study, a group of first graders who had attended full-year Head Start were compared cognitively to a group of first graders who had been eligible for Head Start but did not attend. Results of the study may be suspect because the children who participated in Head Start were selected from the most deprived of those eligible; therefore study…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education, Followup Studies
Deutsch, Martin; And Others – 1971
This Institute for Developmental Studies (IDS) program was established in 1958, and represented an attempt to study the inter-play of environment on psychological development, and to evolve and develop an enriched and stimulating school curriculum for socially disadvantaged children. Over the years, the IDS program has evolved into a comprehensive…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth
Archer, Philip D.; Sewall, Michael B. – 1973
The purpose of this study was to investigate the correlation between gain on the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test (S-B) in compensatory prekindergarten programs, and scores on the New York State Pupil Evaluation Program (PEP), Reading Section, over three years later. Four hundred and five subjects showed a correlation of 0.42 for the pre-post S-B…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Correlation, Intelligence Quotient
Goldstein, Leo S.; And Others – J Educ Meas, 1970
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education, Experimental Curriculum
Jones, Shuell H. – 1969
The purpose of the study was to determine the effectiveness of a "packaged" language development program, on the general cognitive, intellectual, and language development of preschool children. A selected basic language program (Buchanan Language Readiness Program) and supplementary materials (other language programs), were used to…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Compensatory Education, Language Arts, Language Skills
Johnson, Dale L.; And Others – 1973
The Houston Parent-Child Development Center (PCDC) is described. PCDC is similar to most compensatory education programs in its objectives, but different in process as it starts intervention during infancy and directs educational efforts at the parents. The program is open to low income Mexican-American families with at least one child under 3…
Descriptors: Child Development, Compensatory Education, Family Environment, Family Influence
Parker, Ronald K. – 1969
This study's purpose was to develop and evaluate programs based on psycholinguistic theory for rural black disadvantaged 4-year-olds. The treatment conditions, administered in mobile labs, were (1) a 9-month general enrichment curriculum, GE (N=8 comparatively advantaged white children), (2) a 3-month structured Peabody curriculum, P3 (N=8…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Curriculum Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Language Ability
Moseley, Dolly; And Others – 1969
The object of this study was to determine the extent to which disadvantaged kindergarten pupils would benefit from association with advantaged pupils and teachers in the improvement of basic skills and self-concept. The sample for 1967-68 was composed of 20 disadvantaged rural Negro and Caucasion 5-year-old children randomly selected. The sample…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged
Van De Riet, Vernon; Resnick, Michael B. – 1973
This study explores (a) the relative effects of the Learning to Learn Program on the educational competencies of the experimental children (E) who attended the Learning to Learn Program as compared to control children (C) who participated in traditional preschool and primary grade programs; and (b) the developmant and longitudinal educational…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Home Programs, Intellectual Development
Badger, Earladeen D. – 1969
This study hypothesized that mothers from a low socioeconomic area could be trained by teachers to implement an infant tutorial program using their 1- to 2-year-old children as subjects. The 20 mothers recruited were ADC recipients or met the OEO poverty definition. Mothers agreed to attend a 2 hour weekly class to learn teaching techniques to be…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged, Infants
Karnes, Merle B.; And Others – 1968
This 3-year study made a longitudinal comparison of three types of preschool intervention programs. The Traditional approach (two classes of 15 students and three teachers each) worked in conventional ways to improve personal, social, motor and general language development; children were placed in a regular public school kindergarten the following…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education, Conventional Instruction
TAMMINEN, ARMAS W.; AND OTHERS – 1967
TO FIND OUT IF CULTURALLY DEPRIVED CHILDREN SHOW CHANGE IN ACADEMIC READINESS AS A RESULT OF SPECIAL PRESCHOOL PROGRAMS, 3 GROUPS OF CHILDREN (14 TO 17 IN EACH) IN 3 DULUTH SCHOOL AREAS WERE PRE- AND POSTTESTED WITH THE STANFORD-BINET AND SRA PRIMARY MENTAL ABILITIES TESTS. A CONTROL GROUP OF 30 CHILDREN FROM THE SAME 3 SCHOOL AREAS WERE GIVEN THE…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA. – 1969
This preschool program concentrated on language development, self-concept, perception, and concept formation. Also, a vertically organized program of reading, math, science, and creative dramatics, along with parent activity, inservice training, and dissemination, covered prekindergarten through the third grade. Individual and small group work…
Descriptors: Blacks, Compensatory Education, Concept Formation, Educational Games
