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Ruddy, Jonah; Ciancio, Dennis; Skinner, Christopher H.; Blonder, Megan – Contemporary School Psychology, 2019
Oral reading fluency was investigated as a predictor of standard scores on the Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Achievement III Broad Reading Cluster (BRC). Participants included first- through third-grade students (n = 1301) from elementary schools in and around Houston, Texas. Median words correct per minute scores from three oral reading passages were…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Achievement Tests, Elementary School Students, Scores
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Roseth, Cary J.; Missall, Kristen N.; McConnell, Scott R. – Journal of School Psychology, 2012
Early literacy individual growth and development indicators (EL-IGDIs) assess preschoolers' expressive vocabulary development and phonological awareness. This study investigated longitudinal change in EL-IGDIs using a large (N=7355), internet-based sample of 36- to 60-month-old United States preschoolers without identified risks for later…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, National Norms, Emergent Literacy, Vocabulary Development
Smith, Christina – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This program evaluation is a study of the effectiveness of a core reading program, Journeys, by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), on the early literacy skills and oral reading fluency (ORF) of kindergarten through second grade students in a rural elementary school. The scores of the students in the experimental group were compared to scores of…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Program Effectiveness, Rural Schools, Elementary School Students
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Millei, Zsuzsa; Imre, Robert J. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2013
In this paper we argue that the socialist kindergarten in Hungary (1948-1989) was set up to aid the modernizing of a nation in a particular way and in a historical and political context in which the only way forward was to leave behind aspects of the past and start a new chapter in Hungarian history. Comparing this project to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Social Systems, Ideology
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Ayoub, Catherine; O'Connor, Erin; Rappolt-Schlictmann, Gabrielle; Vallotton, Claire; Raikes, Helen; Chazan-Cohen, Rachel – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2009
The purposes of the present study were to examine associations between risk factors and the cognitive performance from one to three years of age of children living in poverty, and to investigate the protective and/or promotive effects of EHS on children's cognitive skill performance. Analyses were conducted using data from the Early Head Start…
Descriptors: Stimulation, Poverty, Mothers, Disadvantaged Youth
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Gerard, Maureen – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2005
Multiage settings are alternative educational groupings that promote complexity in young children's thinking. Grouping children across ages and grades encourages interconnectedness in social and intellectual development. This study compared the academic achievement of one group of multiage students to national norms on standardized achievement…
Descriptors: Children, National Norms, Intellectual Development, Academic Achievement