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What Works Clearinghouse, 2015
In the 2014 report, "Closing the Achievement Gap Through Modification of Neurocognitive and Neuroendocrine Function: Results from a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of an Innovative Approach to the Education of Children in Kindergarten," researchers examined the impacts of "Tools of the Mind" on cognitive and academic…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Randomized Controlled Trials, Educational Innovation, Kindergarten
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Cole, Kevin N.; Dale, Philip S. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1986
Forty-four language delayed preschoolers received either direct instruction or interactive instruction. After 8 months, children in both settings improved significantly and substantially on syntactic and semantic measures. There were no differences between the two groups at posttest nor any significant aptitude by treatment interactions for…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition, Language Handicaps, Preschool Education
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Dale, Philip S.; Cole, Kevin N. – Exceptional Children, 1988
Two highly contrasting models of preschool education for mildly handicapped children were compared. Direct Instruction led to greater gains on the Test of Early Language Development and the Basic Language Concepts test. Mediated Learning led to greater gains on the McCarthy Verbal and Memory scales and Mean Length of Utterance measure. (Author/VW)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition, Memory, Mild Disabilities
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Weisberg, Paul – Education and Treatment of Children, 1988
Cognitive and academic behaviors promoted by an ongoing, long-term Direct Instruction preschool project for poverty level children (N=109) are described. Children who received two years of training achieved at substantially higher normative levels than children trained for only one year and this advantage continued in first and second grades.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Methods