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Rebecca Slotkin; Karen L. Bierman; Brenda S. Heinrichs; Janet A. Welsh – Prevention Science, 2024
The Research-based Developmentally Informed (REDI) program enriched Head Start classrooms with teacher-delivered curriculum components designed to enhance child social-emotional learning and language-literacy skills. Parents received information about the program via backpack express, including weekly handouts about program topics and three DVDs…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Parent Child Relationship, Intervention, Parent Participation
Tobin, Joseph; Hayashi, Akiko – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2017
This paper uses examples from research conducted in preschools in Japan, China, and the United States to illustrate the features and virtues of return interviews with informants with whom ethnographers have long research engagements. Return interviews and long research engagements are powerful research strategies that help the ethnographers ask…
Descriptors: Interviews, Ethnography, Preschool Education, Followup Studies
Baumgartner, Erin; Thrash, Courtney – Houston Education Research Consortium, 2021
Wide variation exists with respect to how Literacy by 3 is implemented. Though the Literacy by 3 program has been in the Houston Independent School District (HISD) since the 2014-2015 school year, there remains wide variation with respect to which aspects of Literacy by 3 are implemented in classrooms and to what extent the practices are utilized.…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Literacy Education, Classroom Techniques, Models
Garcia, David; Dukes, Charles; Brady, Michael P.; Scott, Jack; Wilson, Cynthia L. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2016
We evaluated the efficacy of an instructional procedure to teach young children with autism to evacuate settings and notify an adult during a fire alarm. A multiple baseline design across children showed that an intervention that included modeling, rehearsal, and praise was effective in teaching fire safety skills. Safety skills generalized to…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Safety Education, Teaching Methods
Sarama, Julie; Clements, Douglas H.; Spitler, Mary Elaine – Mathematics Teacher Education and Development, 2017
Increased attention has been given to learning trajectories (LT) as structural frameworks for educational instruction. The purpose of this study was to explore preschool teachers' descriptions of self-change, seven years after the start of their participation in LT-based professional development and instruction. This study was part of a larger…
Descriptors: Evidence, Preschool Teachers, Faculty Development, Instructional Innovation
Chang, Ya-Chih; Shire, Stephanie Y.; Shih, Wendy; Gelfand, Carolyn; Kasari, Connie – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2016
Few research-developed early intervention models have been deployed to and tested in real world preschool programs. In this study, teaching staff implemented a social communication modularized intervention, JASPER, in their daily program. Sixty-six preschool children with autism in twelve classrooms (12 teachers) were randomized to receive…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Interpersonal Communication, Program Implementation, Early Intervention
Stormont, Melissa; Cohen, Daniel R.; Herman, Keith C.; Reinke, Wendy M. – School Psychology, 2019
The purpose of the study was to investigate the effectiveness of a brief and feasible universal screener for kindergarten readiness for predicting follow-up outcomes in first grade. Participants included kindergarten and first-grade teachers and students from 6 urban elementary schools. Students included slightly more males than females (54%;…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Teacher Attitudes
Robinson, Chanele D.; Diamond, Karen E. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2014
This study examined the association between preschool children's social-interpersonal skills and their transition to school in the beginning months of kindergarten. One hundred and thirty-three preschool children participated in this study. During the spring of the pre-kindergarten year, children's social-interpersonal skills were…
Descriptors: Correlation, Preschool Children, Interpersonal Competence, Kindergarten
Lehrl, Simone; Kluczniok, Katharina; Rossbach, Hans-Guenther; Anders, Yvonne – Global Education Review, 2017
The present study examines how attending the German model project "Kindergarten of the Future in Bavaria" (KiDZ), which provided 138 children (aged 3 to 6) with traditional preschool stimulation combined with cognitive and domain-specific stimulation, is associated with children's competencies in mathematics over time to age 12 compared…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Mathematics Skills, Mathematics Instruction
Improving Quality of the Child Care Environment through a Consultancy Programme for Centre Directors
Helmerhorst, Katrien O. W.; Fukkink, Ruben G.; Riksen-Walraven, J. Marianne A.; Gevers Deynoot-Schaub, Mirjam J. J. M.; Tavecchio, Louis W. C. – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2017
This study examined the effects of a newly developed on-site consultancy programme to improve global quality of the child care environment in non-parental child care centres for 0- to 4-year-old children as measured with the ITERS-R/ECERS-R. Using a randomised controlled trial with a pretest, posttest, and follow-up test, we compared 35…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Care Centers, Consultation Programs, Educational Quality
Lleras, Christy; McKillip, Mary – Journal of Educational Research, 2017
School moves are common during elementary school in the United States. The authors address whether changing schools and residences affects the academic and behavioral development of young students. Utilizing data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, the regression analyses show that, after controlling for prior achievement and behavior,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Student Behavior, Learner Engagement, Academic Achievement
Lyster, Solveig-Alma Halaas; Lervåg, Arne Olav; Hulme, Charles – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
We evaluated the effect of morphological awareness training delivered in preschool (8 months before school entry) on reading ability at the end of grade 1 and 5 years later (in Grade 6). In preschool, one group of children received morphological awareness training, while a second group received phonological awareness training. A control group…
Descriptors: Reading, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Control Groups
Riddle, Mark A.; Yershova, Kseniya; Lazzaretto, Deborah; Paykina, Natalya; Yenokyan, Gayane; Greenhill, Laurence; Abikoff, Howard; Vitiello, Benedetto; Wigal, Tim; McCracken, James T.; Kollins, Scott H.; Murray, Desiree W.; Wigal, Sharon; Kastelic, Elizabeth; McGough, James J.; dosReis, Susan; Bauzo-Rosario, Audrey; Stehli, Annamarie; Posner, Kelly – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2013
Objective: To describe the clinical course of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptom severity and diagnosis from ages 3 to 5 up to 9 to 12 years during a 6-year follow-up after the original Preschool ADHD Treatment Study (PATS). Method: A total of 207 participants (75% male) from the original PATS, assessed at baseline (mean age,…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Age, Preschool Children, Severity (of Disability)
Strain, Phillip S. – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2017
This article reports on a 4-year follow-up study from the Learning Experiences and Alternative Program for Preschoolers and Their Parents (LEAP) randomized trial of early intervention for young children with autism. Overall, participants from LEAP classes were marginally superior to comparison class children on elementary school outcomes specific…
Descriptors: Followup Studies, Preschool Children, Parents, Early Intervention
Burke, Lindsey M.; Muhlhausen, David B. – Heritage Foundation, 2013
In 2008, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) completed data collection for its third-grade follow-up study of Head Start, a federal preschool program designed to improve the kindergarten readiness of low-income children. Four years later, just before Christmas, the agency finally published the results of the congressionally mandated…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Preschool Education, Preschool Children