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Xiaoyun Shangguan; Jianfen Wu; Yunpeng Wu; Chen Chen – Early Education and Development, 2024
"Research Findings:" Sustained attention is a fundamental cognitive function for young children's development. We investigated the effects of school-based audiovisual game training with parental involvement on sustained attention (SA) in 5-6-year-old Chinese children. Totally 75 children and their parents participated and were assigned…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, Training, Parent Participation
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Xumei Fan; Leigh Kale D'Amico; Janice Kilburn; Alexis Jones; Chelsea Richard; Lauren Zollars; Sommer Garrett; D'Arion Johnston – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2024
Based on the intersection of different systems at school entry, children and families often experience uncertainty about their preparedness and impending shift from other early childhood settings. This study used a mixed-methods explanatory sequential design and investigated the perspectives of parents and caregivers on kindergarten readiness with…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Kindergarten, Parents, Caregiver Attitudes
Pollard, Steve J. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study was to examine teachers' perceptions of the purposes and effectiveness of homework and effective and ineffective homework strategies at the elementary level. A hermeneutic phenomenological approach was used to explore the lived experiences of six elementary teachers from one public school division in the southeast region…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Program Effectiveness, Homework, Educational Practices
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Colby Hall; Katlynn Dahl-Leonard; Garrett J. Roberts; Philip Capin; Delanie Peacott; Lauren Thayer; Kristin Conradi Smith – Grantee Submission, 2025
Although phonics knowledge and decoding skill are important for academic and life success, there is little research that examines the effects of home-based, family-implemented instruction on the development of these early literacy skills. The purpose of this multiple baseline across participants single case experimental design study was to…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Parents, Parents as Teachers, Parent Background
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Eck, Lindsay B.; Whitley, Samuel F. – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2022
Parent involvement is a reverently studied, crucial concept that impacts overall student achievement. An educational technology tool, involvED, was developed by a School Psychologist and Licensed Clinical Social Worker using principles of behavioral change research and grounded in family systems theory. Incorporating a scientific approach for…
Descriptors: Family School Relationship, Parent Participation, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Xumei Fan; Leigh Kale D'Amico; Janice Kilburn; Alexis Jones; Chelsea Richard; Sommer Garrett; Logan Leverage – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2024
Transition to kindergarten is an important developmental milestone for children and families. This study explored factors associated with kindergarten readiness focusing on the impact of a summer kindergarten transition program. A mixed-method design was employed, and the qualitative data from interviews with 16 randomly selected kindergarten…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Preschool Teachers, School Readiness
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Amie F. Bettencourt; Deborah Gross; Natalie Schock; Rebecca Ferro; Nancy Perrin – Early Education and Development, 2024
This sequential mixed methods study evaluated the impact of the Chicago Parent Program (CPP) in 12 Baltimore Title I PreK programs on parent engagement and student outcomes from kindergarten through 2nd grade. Phase 1 (quasi-experiment; N = 11,996) compared PreK students whose parents enrolled in CPP with those whose parents did not enroll in CPP…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Parenting Skills, Public Education, Federal Programs
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Sharon Wolf; Guilherme Lichand – npj Science of Learning, 2023
Whether SMS-based nudge interventions can increase parent engagement and improve child learning outcomes across diverse contexts such as rural West Africa is unknown. We conducted a school-randomized trial to test the impacts of an audio or text-message intervention (two messages per week for one school year) to parents and teachers of second and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Participation, Program Effectiveness, Telecommunications
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Marij A. Veldman; Mariëtte Hingstman; Hester de Boer – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2024
Success for All (SfA) is a comprehensive school reform program designed to support schools serving many students of disadvantaged backgrounds to increase students' achievement. SfA includes daily 90-min reading lessons with extensive use of cooperative learning, tutoring for struggling readers, and an emphasis on parental involvement. School teams…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Reading Skills, Success, Disadvantaged
Kelly M. Purtell; Hui Jiang; Laura M. Justice; Robin Sayers; Rebecca Dore; Logan Pelfrey – Grantee Submission, 2022
Background: Strong connections between children's teachers and their parents fosters their learning and development in early childhood and throughout their schooling. Developing strong connections in preschool may ease the transition to elementary school for children. Objective: The goal of this study is to examine the initial implementation of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship
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Kelly M. Purtell; Hui Jiang; Laura M. Justice; Robin Sayers; Rebecca Dore; Logan Pelfrey – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2022
Background: Strong connections between children's teachers and their parents fosters their learning and development in early childhood and throughout their schooling. Developing strong connections in preschool may ease the transition to elementary school for children. Objective: The goal of this study is to examine the initial implementation of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship
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Jones, Curtis J.; Christian, Michael – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2021
This report presents the results of a two-year randomized control trial evaluation of the SPARK foundational literacy program. SPARK is an early grade literacy program developed by Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee that pairs one-on-one tutoring with parent engagement. In 2010, SPARK was awarded an Investing in Innovation (i3) U.S.…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Early Childhood Education, Tutoring, Individual Instruction
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Reynolds, Arthur J.; Richardson, Brandt A.; Lee, Sangyoo – Developmental Psychology, 2021
The Midwest Child-Parent Center (CPC) Expansion began preschool implementation in fall 2012 in 5 Minnesota and Illinois districts. This study reports preschool and kindergarten impact findings for the Saint Paul Public School District. It is the first impact study of CPC outside of Chicago. After documenting that implementation quality was…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Kindergarten, Program Effectiveness
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Robles-Goodwin, Patsy J.; Salazar, Jessica C.; Garza, Tiberio; Torres, Bertha Y.; Martinez, Carlos – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2023
The purpose of this study was to assess the increase of Latino parents' confidence in advocating and supporting their child's schooling. The intervention was implemented in six public independent school districts in the Southwest United States. The data was examined through matched pre- and post-surveys (n = 45). Findings are consistent in…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Parents, Parent Participation, Family Involvement
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Kigobe, Janeth; Van den Noortgate, Wim; Ligembe, Nestory; Ogondiek, Mary; Ghesquière, Pol; Van Leeuwen, Karla – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2021
This study reports on the effects of a 1-year parental involvement intervention on reading development of primary school children. The intervention included a teacher and parent training, focusing on teacher-parent communication and parental involvement in homework and reading at home. We used a cluster randomized controlled trial design with…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Emergent Literacy
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