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Sarah Miller; Laura Dunne; Sharon Millen; Erin Early; Laura Grant; Jenny Davison; Clare McGeady – Irish Educational Studies, 2024
This five-year randomised controlled trial explored the impact of the Lifestart home visiting parenting programme, on parent and child development outcomes. The Lifestart Programme is a universal and structured child-centred programme of information and practical activity for parents of children aged from birth to five years of age. In total, 424…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Parent Child Relationship, Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation
Walker, Karen; Gooze, Rachel A.; Torres, Alicia – Child Trends, 2014
Early literacy skills are the foundation for school success. This is particularly important for groups of children at heightened risk of poor educational outcomes, such as English language learners and children from low-income families. Informed by a growing body of research and evaluation studies that point to the importance of home literacy…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Early Reading, Reading Skills, At Risk Students
Child Care & Early Education Research Connections, 2010
"Research Connections" conducted a comprehensive search of its collection for resources focused on early mathematics. This Key Topic Resource List includes an overview of the early mathematics literature, as well as a listing of selected resources on the topic. Search results are grouped into five broad areas: (1) Programs and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Skills, Knowledge Level, Parent Role
Prins, Esther; Toso, Blaire Willson – Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy, 2008
The Parent Education Profile (PEP) is an instrument that rates parents' support for children's literacy development. This study examined how the PEP portrays the ideal parent, its assumptions about parenting and education, and the values and ideals it promotes. In sum, many aspects of the PEP evaluate parents by the mainstream (White,…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Reading Instruction, Child Rearing, Parenting Styles
Davis, Dan; Kugelmass, Judith – 1974
The Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) is evaluated in this research report with respect to the effects of home environment. The main data of an original HIPPY study consisted of the children's performance in various tests of mental ability. In the present study, the same sample is used, but the focus of research is on the…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Family Environment, Home Instruction
Poertner, John – 1982
The trend in public child welfare toward increased purchase of services from local agencies is presented in this report as a rationale for developing monitoring systems which link service to client outcomes and to agency mandates. The monitoring system designed for the Parent Training Initiative, a parent education program, is described as one…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Evaluation Criteria, Family Environment, Parent Child Relationship
Craig, Marjorie; Borger, Jeanne – 1995
The Family Life Early Education Project (FLEEP) operated from September 1993 through August 1994 in Chicago public schools. The project sought to assist parents in acquiring skills that foster their young children's cognitive, social, physical, and emotional development, thus increasing children's readiness for school. To accomplish these goals,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Family Environment, Family Involvement, Parent Child Relationship
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Cabral, Rebecca J.; Callard, Esther Dean – Journal of Home Economics, 1982
Describes PACT (Parents and Children Together), a project designed to help parents create a wholesome environment for the child so that the child can remain in or be returned to the home. Failing this, PACT offers documentation to the social service agency so that the child can be permanently placed. (CT)
Descriptors: Adoption, Child Advocacy, Child Development, Child Psychology
John, Thomas – 1976
This is an evaluation study and final report on the Lenox Early Childhood Outreach Program for Parents (LECOPP), a program implemented to correct educational problems among children in low-income families. Conducted from August 1975 through July 1976 at the Lenox Elementary School, the program focused primarily on training the parent to regularly…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Early Childhood Education, Evaluation Methods, Family Environment