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Continued impacts of New Mexico PreK on children's readiness for kindergarten: Results from the third year of implementation
Hustedt, Jason T.; Barnett, W. Steven; Jung, Kwanghee; Figueras, Alexandra; , September 2009

A study of the impacts of participation in New Mexico PreK, a state-funded preschool program for four-year-old children offered through a variety of public and community-based providers, on children's receptive vocabulary, early literacy, and early math skills at kindergarten entry

Reports & Papers

Contexts of reading instruction: Implications for literacy skills and kindergarteners' behavioral engagement
Ponitz, Claire E. Cameron; Rimm-Kaufman, Sara E.; , Q2 2011

A study the relationships among both kindergarten word-reading and phonological awareness and behavioral engagement, off-task behavior and instructional time in four instructional contexts: teacher or child-managed children's attention, or content or meaning focused instruction, based on data from 170 kindergarteners in 36 classrooms

Reports & Papers

Does the quality of stimulation and support in the home environment moderate the effect of early education programs?
Bradley, Robert H.; McKelvey, Lorraine; Whiteside-Mansell, Leanne; , November/December 2011

A study of the moderating influences of maternal emotional warmth and aspects of the home environment on the relationship between Early Head Start participation and measures of children's cognitive and psychosocial development at ages 3 and 5, based on data from 3,001 children

Reports & Papers

Woodcock-Johnson III Normative Update
Woodcock, Richard; Schrank, Frederick; Mather, Nancy; McGrew, Kevin; , 2007

Instruments

The effects of the New Mexico PreK Initiative on young children’s school readiness
Hustedt, Jason T.; Barnett, W. Steven; Jung, Kwanghee; Pew Charitable Trusts; , August 2007

A study of the effects of the New Mexico PreK initiative on the receptive vocabulary, early literacy, and early math skills of children entering kindergarten, using data from a sample of 886 children from across New Mexico

Reports & Papers

ACF-OPRE report: A second year in Head Start: Characteristics and outcomes of children who entered the program at age three
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation; , December 2010

A profile of the development, families, and home environments of children participating in their second year of Head Start who had entered the program at age 3 in the fall of 2006, based on spring 2008 data from the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey 2006 (FACES 2006)

Reports & Papers

Early education policy alternatives: Comparing quality and outcomes of Head Start and state prekindergarten
Henry, Gary T.; Gordon, Craig S.; Rickman, Dana K.; , 2006

A study comparing the impact of state prekindergarten and Head Start programs on young children's developmental outcomes by assessing their academic, social and emotional skills as well as program quality

Reports & Papers

Early school transitions and the social behavior of children with disabilities: Selected findings from the Pre-Elementary Education Longitudinal Study: Wave 3 overview report from the Pre-Elementary Education Longitudinal Study (PEELS)
Carlson, Elaine; Daley, Tamara; Bitterman, Amy; Heinzen, Harriotte; Keller, Brad; Markowitz, Joy; Riley, Jarnee; , 2009

Findings from the Pre-Elementary Education Longitudinal Study (PEELS), a nationally representative longitudinal study of three-, four-, and five-year-old children with disabilities, their program, grade, and school transitions, and their social behavior, from the study's first, second, and third waves during the 2003-04, 2004-05, and 2005-06 school years

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Validity, reliability, and utility of the Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement
Denton, Carolyn A.; Ciancio, Dennis J.; Fletcher, Jack M.; , 2006

An evaluation of the reliability, validity and utility of five of the six subtests of the Observation Study of Early Literacy Achievement

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Are teachers' education, major, and credentials related to classroom quality and children's academic gains in pre-kindergarten?
Early, Diane Marie; Bryant, Donna M.; Pianta, Robert C.; Clifford, Richard M.; Burchinal, Margaret; Ritchie, Sharon; Howes, Carollee; Barbarin, Oscar; , 2006

An investigation using data from the NCEDL Multi-State Study of Pre-Kindergarten, 2001-2003, to examine if early educators' education, early childhood major, and credentials are related to classroom quality and preschool children's academic achievements

Reports & Papers

Effects of preschool curriculum programs on school readiness: Report from the Preschool Curriculum Evaluation Research initiative
Preschool Curriculum Evaluation Research Consortium; , July 2008

The final report from the Preschool Curriculum Evaluation Research initiative, which conducted multi-site experimental evaluations of 14 preschool curricula's impacts on child outcomes (including behavior and early language, literacy, and math skills) at the end of preschool and in kindergarten, and on preschool classroom outcomes (including classroom quality, teacher-child interactions, and instructional practices)

Reports & Papers

Is preschool executive function causally related to academic achievement?
Willoughby, Michael T.; Kupersmidt, Janis; Voegler-Lee, Mary Ellen; , 2012

A reanalysis of data using an alternative analytic approach--a fixed effects regression analysis--to examine the relationship between preschool executive function and children's academic achievement, based on data from 794 preschool children, assessed in the fall and spring of an academic year

Reports & Papers

A profile of kindergarten readiness in East Yakima: Fall 2007
Boller, Kimberley; Paulsell, Diane; Aikens, Nikki; Potamites, Liz; Kovac, Martha C.; Carlson, Barbara Lepidus; , July 02, 2008

The first year of analyses from a multi-year kindergarten readiness study, one of four components in an overall evaluation, of the East Yakima Early Learning Initiative, part of a 10-year strategy to improve children's school readiness in Washington State, that describe the school readiness and family characteristics of children entering kindergarten in fall 2007 in East Yakima, Washington, based on parent interviews, home observations, direct child assessments, and teacher reports of children's skills and behavior

Reports & Papers

Preschoolers at risk of developing concurrent academic and behavioral difficulties
Zibulsky, Jamie , Spring 2009

A longitudinal study of the relationships between pre-reading, reading, and social skills from the fall of preschool through spring kindergarten in 1,041 children at 14 sites nationwide as part of the Preschool Curriculum Evaluation Research project

Reports & Papers

Evaluation of the pre-k summer readiness pilot program
Ponder, Bentley D.; Rickman, Dana K.; Henry, Gary T.; , 2004

An evaluation of the prekindergarten (Pre-K) summer enrichment pilot program for children in high poverty areas in metro Atlanta

Reports & Papers

ACF-OPRE report: A year in Head Start: Children, families and programs
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation; , October, 2010

A profile of the characteristics of Head Start children and families and their home and Head Start classroom environments from fall 2006 through spring 2007, including children's cognitive, physical, and socioemotional development, and Head Start classroom curricula and activities, based on data collected from a sample of 60 Head Start programs, 135 centers, 410 classrooms, 365 teachers, and 3,315 children and their parents

Reports & Papers

The relationships between home support for language and emergent literacy in low-income families, mother's education and immigrant status, and children's language and emergent literacy development at kindergarten entry
Illmer-Craciun, Doyna , 2009

An examination of both the relationships between home support for language and emergent literacy and children's language and emergent literacy development at kindergarten entry from a subsample 76 mothers and their 76 children participants from the National Early Head Start Parent Interview of Pre-K children

Reports & Papers

Preschool programs can boost school readiness
Gormley, Jr., William T.; Phillips, Deborah A.; Gayer, Ted; , June 27, 2008

A comparison of the academic skills of experimental groups of 1,264 children completing public prekindergarten and 327 children completing Head Start programs and control groups of 1,492 children entering public prekindergarten and 483 children entering Head Start programs in Tulsa

Reports & Papers

Access to the general education curriculum for preschoolers with disabilities: Children’s school success
Lieber, Joan; Horn, Eva M.; Palmer, Susan; Fleming, Kandace; , 2008

A study of the academic and social skill gains of 58 children with disabilities during their preschool year in classrooms using the Children’s School Success (CSS) curriculum

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A longitudinal view of the receptive vocabulary and math achievement of young children with disabilities
Carlson, Elaine; Jenkins, Frank; Bitterman, Amy; Keller, Brad; , August, 2011

A longitudinal study of the receptive vocabulary and math skills through age 10 of children who received preschool special education services and of the relationship of changes in skills to disability category, based on data from the nationally representative Pre-Elementary Education Longitudinal Study (PEELS)

Reports & Papers

Child Development Education Pilot Program (CDEPP): 2009-10 student and classroom assessment report
South Carolina Education Oversight Committee; , 11 October, 2010

A study of children's development and classroom quality during the 2009-2010 school year in the South Carolina Child Development Education Pilot Program (CDEPP), a prekindergarten initiative to improve the school readiness of students in poverty, and a longitudinal analysis of child development from prekindergarten to kindergarten in previous cohorts of CDEPP participants

Reports & Papers

The effects of New Jersey's Abbott Preschool Program on young children's school readiness
Lamy, Cynthia Esposito; Barnett, W. Steven; Jung, Kwanghee; , 2005

A study on the effects of attending the New Jersey Abbott Preschool Program on language, early literacy and early math skills in children entering kindergarten, part of a larger study on school readiness

Reports & Papers

Missouri Preschool Project: Child assessment report
Fuger, Kathryn Lu Magnuson; Todd, Melissa L.; Stephens, Dawana J.; Thornburg, Kathy R.; Mathews, Michelle C.; Mayfield, Wayne A.; , July 2003

A study of the development of children participating in the Missouri Preschool Project (MPP) and its relation to program participation, based on assessments of participants and a comparison to a matched group of nonparticipants

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Early math matters: Kindergarten number competence and later mathematics outcomes
Jordan, Nancy C.; Kaplan, David; Ramineni, Chaitanya; Locuniak, Maria N.; , May 2009

A longitudinal study of the relationship between children's number competence scores in kindergarten through the middle of first grade and their mathematics achievement from the end of first grade through the end of third grade, based on data from 378 kindergarteners and 196 third graders from one public school district in northern Delaware

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The relations of observed pre-k classroom quality profiles to children's achievement and social competence
Curby, Timothy W.; LoCasale-Crouch, Jennifer; Konold, Timothy R.; Pianta, Robert C.; Howes, Carollee; Burchinal, Margaret; Bryant, Donna M.; Clifford, Richard M.; Early, Diane Marie; Barbarin, Oscar; , March 2009

A study of the relationship between the growth in social and academic competence of children in the prekindergarten year and the level of emotional support measured in classroom teacher-child interactions, based on data collected about 2,028 prekindergarten children from several states

Reports & Papers

Los Angeles Universal Preschool programs, children served, and children’s progress in the preschool year: Final report of the First 5 LA Universal Preschool Child Outcomes Study: Final report
Love, John M.; Atkins-Burnett, Sally; Vogel, Cheri; Aikens, Nikki; Xue, Yange; Mabutas, Maricar; Carlson, Barbara Lepidus; Sama Martin, Emily; Paxton, Nora; Caspe, Margaret; Sprachman, Susan; Sonnenfeld, Kathy; , June 24, 2009

An inquiry into the academic, developmental, and health related outcomes of the children enrolled in the universal prekindergarten program of Los Angeles County, California, based on direct assessments and interviews with parents and teachers

Reports & Papers

Contributions of hot and cool self-regulation to preschool disruptive behavior and academic achievement
Willoughby, Michael T.; Kupersmidt, Janis; Voegler-Lee, Mary Ellen; Bryant, Donna M. , 2011

A study of the relationships among children's self regulation style, disruptive behavior, letter-word identification ability, mathematical skills, phonological awareness, inhibitory control, age, gender, and Head Start attendance, based on data from sample of 926 3-through 5-year-olds from Head Start and child care programs within a 60-mile radius of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Reports & Papers

Evaluation of the North Carolina More at Four pre-kindergarten program: Year 3 report: July 1, 2003-June 30, 2004
Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen S.; Maris, Catherine L.; More at Four Evaluation Team; , 2005

An evaluation of the statewide North Carolina More at Four program, a state-funded initiative to provide high-quality educational experiences to at-risk four-year-olds, that addresses characteristics of local programs, quality of services provided, parent satisfaction, and participant outcomes, based on monthly program reports, classroom observations, parent surveys, and child assessments

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Do peers influence children's skill development in preschool?
Henry, Gary T.; Rickman, Dana K.; , February 2007

An examination of the relationship between peer abilities and educational outcomes in preschool children, based on data from the Early Childhood Study in Georgia, which included 630 participants from full-time private preschool, public subsidized pre-kindergarten, and Head Start programs

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Preschool executive functioning abilities predict early mathematics achievement
Clark, Caron A. C.; Pritchard, Verena E.; Woodward, Lianne J.; , September 2010

A study of the relationship between executive function abilities at age 4 and achievement in mathematics at age 6, 1 year after school entry, based on 104 children in New Zealand followed prospectively

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An evaluation of the implementation of Georgia's pre-k program: Report of the findings from the Georgia Early Childhood Study (2002-03)
Henry, Gary T.; Ponder, Bentley D.; Rickman, Dana K.; Mashburn, Andrew J.; Henderson, Laura W.; Gordon, Craig S.; , 2004

An assessment of the extent to which differences in implementation of Georgia full day, publicly subsidized Pre-K affects the development of enrolled four-year-olds

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Order in the house! Associations among household chaos, the home literacy environment, maternal reading ability, and children’s early reading
Johnson, Anna D.; Martin, Anne; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne; Petrill, Stephen A.; , October 2008

An examination of associations between household chaos, the home literacy environment, and early reading skills, based on data collected from a population of 455 twins enrolled in the Western Reserve Reading Project

Reports & Papers

Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery (Rev. ed.)
Woodcock, Richard; Johnson, M. Bonner; , 1990

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The APPLES Blossom: The Abbott Preschool Program Longitudinal Effects Study (APPLES): Preliminary results through 2nd grade: Interim report [Executive summary]
Frede, Ellen; Jung, Kwanghee; Barnett, W. Steven; Figueras, Alexandra; , June 2009

A summary of preliminary findings from a longitudinal study on the lasting effects of participation in an Abbott prekindergarten program on children’s language, literacy, and math skills in first and second grade

Executive Summary

Profiles of emergent literacy skills among preschool children who are at risk for academic difficulties
Cabell, Sonia Q.; Justice, Laura M.; Konold, Timothy R.; McGinty, Anita; , Q1 2011

A first study to identify reliable profiles of emergent literacy among preschoolers and a second study of the predictive validity of the profiles on mid-year teacher ratings of emergent literacy and end-of-kindergarten literacy assessments, based on data from 492 at risk children in 93 publically-funded preschool programs in a Midwest state

Reports & Papers

Project Early Kindergarten evaluation: Results through 2008-09 of a Saint Paul Public Schools initiative
Schultz, Jennifer Lee; Gozali-Lee, Edith; Mueller, Daniel P.; , September 2009

An evaluation of the efficacy of Project Early Kindergarten (PEK) in the improvement of at risk children’s school readiness, including a comparison of the readiness of children attending PEK programs in school-based settings and community-based PEK programs

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A two-generational child-focused program enhanced with employment services: Eighteen-month impacts from the Kansas and Missouri sites of the Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project
United States. Administration for Children and Families; United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation; , March, 2011

Interim findings on the impact of a program model that incorporates parental employment and educational services into Early Head Start on service receipt, child care and early education experiences, employment, earnings, household income, parenting practices, parental psychological well-being, and child outcomes, based on data collected from 610 families randomly assigned to treatment or control groups at two pilot sites in Kansas and Missouri

Reports & Papers

Head Start children, families, and programs: Present and past data from FACES
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation; , December, 2011

A profile of the characteristics of Head Start children and families and their home and Head Start classroom environments in fall 2009, including children's cognitive, physical, and socioemotional development, and Head Start classroom curricula and activities, and a comparison to profiles from 2000, 2003, and 2006, based on data collected in fall 2009 from a sample of 60 Head Start programs, 129 centers, 486 classrooms, and 3,349 children

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Evaluation of "Paths to QUALITY," Indiana's child care quality rating and improvement system: Final report
Elicker, James; Langill, Carolyn; Ruprecht, Karen; Lewsader, Joellen; Anderson, Treshawn; , 30 September, 2011

An evaluation of the influence of Indiana's Paths to QUALITY (PTQ) quality improvement system on the quality of child care offerings, the awareness of child care quality issues, the child care choices of parents, and select child development indicators, based on data collected at hundreds of child care sites throughout the state

Reports & Papers

Evaluating the effectiveness of Tennessee's Voluntary Pre-K Program: Initial results
Vanderbilt University. Peabody Research Institute; , March 01, 2011

An overview of findings from two randomized studies of the effect of prekindergarten participation on children's school readiness, based on data for more than 1,200 children from 23 schools in 14 Tennessee school districts during the 2009-2010 academic year

Fact Sheets & Briefs

Evaluation of the North Carolina More at Four pre-kindergarten program: Year 2 report: July 1, 2002-June 30, 2003
Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen S.; Maris, Catherine L.; More at Four Evaluation Team; , February 2005

An evaluation of the statewide North Carolina More at Four program, a state-funded initiative to provide high-quality educational experiences to at-risk four-year-olds, that addresses characteristics of local programs, quality of services provided, parent satisfaction, and participant outcomes, based on monthly program reports, classroom observations, parent surveys, and child assessments

Reports & Papers

The effects of Oklahoma's Early Childhood Four-Year-Old Program on young children's school readiness
Lamy, Cynthia Esposito; Barnett, W. Steven; Jung, Kwanghee; , 2005

A study on the effects of attending Oklahoma's Early Childhood Four-Year-Old Program on language, early literacy and early math skills in children entering kindergarten, part of a larger study on school readiness

Reports & Papers

Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES), 2003 Cohort
United States. Administration for Children and Families; , 2008

The Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) is an ongoing, national, longitudinal study of the cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development of Head Start children. It examines the characteristics, well-being, and accomplishments, of families, the observed quality of Head Start classrooms, and the characteristics and opinions of Head Start teachers and other program staff.

Data Sets

A profile of kindergarten readiness in White Center: Fall 2007
Boller, Kimberley; Paulsell, Diane; Aikens, Nikki; Potamites, Liz; Kovac, Martha C.; Carlson, Barbara Lepidus; , July 02, 2008

The first year of analyses from a multi-year kindergarten readiness study, one of four components in an overall evaluation, of the White Center Early Learning Initiative (WCELI), part of a 10-year strategy to improve children's school readiness in Washington State, that describe the school readiness and family characteristics of children entering kindergarten in fall 2007 in White Center, Washington, based on parent interviews, home observations, direct child assessments, and teacher reports of children's skills and behavior

Reports & Papers

An effectiveness-based evaluation of five state pre-kindergarten programs
Wong, Vivian C.; Cook, Thomas D.; Barnett, W. Steven; Jung, Kwanghee; , Winter 2008

A comparison of the pre-kindergarten programs in Michigan, New Jersey, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and West Virginia, including an examination of the math, reading, and vocabulary scores of participating children, and an exploration of the relationship between program quality and outcomes

Reports & Papers

An effectiveness-based evaluation of five state pre-kindergarten programs using regression-discontinuity
Wong, Vivian C.; Cook, Thomas D.; Barnett, W. Steven; Jung, Kwanghee; , June 2007

A study of the impact of state prekindergarten programs in Michigan, New Jersey, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and West Virginia on children's vocabulary, math, and print awareness skills by comparing children who had completed a year of prekindergarten with nonparticipants who had missed the enrollment age cut-off and were about to start prekindergarten

Reports & Papers

The effects of the Arkansas Better Chance program on young children's school readiness
Hustedt, Jason T.; Barnett, W. Steven; Jung, Kwanghee; Thomas, Jessica; , January 2007

A study of the effects of Arkansas Better Chance, a state-funded child care and early education program for preschool-age children from low-income families, on the literacy, language, and math development of children entering kindergarten

Reports & Papers

Beginning Head Start: Children, families and programs in fall 2006: FACES 2006 baseline report
Tarullo, Louisa B.; West, Jerry; Aikens, Nikki; Hulsey, Lara; , December 2008

A profile of the characteristics of newly enrolled Head Start children and families and their home and Head Start classroom environments in fall 2006, including children's cognitive, physical, and socioemotional development, and Head Start classroom curricula and activities, based on data collected from a sample of 60 Head Start programs, 135 centers, 410 classrooms, 365 teachers, and 3,315 children and their parents

Reports & Papers

Teacher activity orienting predicts preschoolers' academic and self-regulatory skills
Cameron, Claire; Morrison, Frederick J.; , July, 2011

A study of the relationship between teacher orienting both to the group and to individual students and both self-regulation and knowledge of five academic subjects in a sample 140 preschoolers in 41 classes

Reports & Papers

The effects of universal pre-k on cognitive development
Gormley, Jr., William T.; Gayer, Ted; Phillips, Deborah A.; Dawson, Brittany; , 2004

An evaluation of Oklahoma's universal prekindergarten program's impact on children's school readiness; standardized test scores of kindergarten children who completed the program were compared to the scores of preschool children just beginning the program

Reports & Papers

Evidence of alphabetic knowledge in writing: Connections to letter and word identification skills in preschool and kindergarten
Molfese, Victoria J.; Beswick, Jennifer L.; Jacobi-Vessels, Jill; Armstrong, Natalie E. ; Culver, Brittany L.; White, Jamie M.; Ferguson, Melissa C.; Rudasill, Kathleen M.; Molfese, Dennis L. , February, 2011

An investigation of the relationship between children's writing and the development of alphabetic knowledge, of letter identification, and of word reading skills throughout the preschool year and a second study comparison of two scoring rubrics for children's knowledge of writing names and letters, one composed of a single component and a second of multiple components, based on data 286 children and their teachers in 46 state-funded preschool and Head Start classrooms in two mid-western states with kindergarten follow-up

Reports & Papers

2009-2010 implementation & expansion of the Child Development Education Pilot Program (CDEPP): Evaluation report
South Carolina Education Oversight Committee; , 01 January, 2010

Findings from an evaluation of the fourth year of the Child Development Education Pilot Program (CDEPP), South Carolina's early childhood education program to improve the school readiness of students in poverty, during the 2009-2010 program year

Reports & Papers

Evaluation of the First 5 LA Family Literacy Initiative: Final phase I report
Quick, Heather; Parrish, Deborah (Montgomery); Manship, Karen; Gaertner, Freya; Waugh, Regina; Gonzalez, Raquel; Rojas, Daniela; Zuniga, Stephen; Jung, Youngok; Howes, Carollee; , March 07, 2007

Findings from the third and fourth years of the implementation and impact evaluation of the First 5 LA Family Literacy Initiative, a comprehensive program to promote literacy among low-income families in Los Angeles County, that examined program characteristics and quality and child and parent outcomes

Reports & Papers

Teachers' perceptions of conflict with young students: Looking beyond problem behaviors
Hamre, Bridget; Pianta, Robert C.; Downer, Jason T.; Mashburn, Andrew J.; , February 2008

A study of the correlations between levels of student-teacher conflict, child problem behavior, and child, teacher, and classroom characteristics, based on data collected from 2282 children, 597 teachers, and 597 classrooms in several states

Reports & Papers

Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery
Woodcock, Richard; Johnson, M. Bonner; , 1977

Instruments

Parental conceptions of school readiness: Relation to ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and children’s skills
Barbarin, Oscar; Early, Diane Marie; Clifford, Richard M.; Bryant, Donna M.; Frome, Pamela; Howes, Carollee; Pianta, Robert C.; Burchinal, Margaret; , September 2008

A study of the family demographic characteristics and child skills associated with parental conceptions of school readiness, based on interviews with 452 parents of 4-year-olds enrolled public prekindergarten programs

Reports & Papers

The effects of state prekindergarten programs on young children's school readiness in five states
Barnett, W. Steven; Lamy, Cynthia Esposito; Jung, Kwanghee; , 2005

A study on the effects of state-funded preschool programs on the school readiness of children from New Jersey, Illinois, Michigan, Oklahoma, South Carolina and West Virginia

Reports & Papers

African American preschoolers' language, emergent literacy skills, and use of African American English: A complex relation
Connor, Carol McDonald; Craig, Holly K.; , August 2006

An examination of the relation between Head Start African American preschoolers' use of African American English and their language and emergent literacy skills

Reports & Papers

Ecological influences on emergent literacy development: The role of home and preschool experiences in the transition from language to literacy
Genone, Sophia Sarah , Spring 2009

An examination of the relationships between measures of children's home and preschool settings and their performance on tests of emergent literacy, as well as an examination of pre-reading abilities and the factors that contribute to their growth, from longitudinal data collected by the Preschool Curriculum Evaluation Research (PCER)

Reports & Papers

Preschool programs can boost school readiness
Gormley, Jr., William T.; Phillips, Deborah A.; Gayer, Ted; , June 2008

A study comparing the impacts on children's early reading, writing, and math skills of participating in Head Start or participating in Oklahoma's universal prekindergarten program, and relating the variation in impacts to differences in classroom practices in the programs

Reports & Papers

Ready to learn?: Children’s pre-academic achievement in pre-kindergarten programs
Howes, Carollee; Burchinal, Margaret; Pianta, Robert C.; Bryant, Donna M.; Early, Diane Marie; Clifford, Richard M.; Barbarin, Oscar; , February 2008

An evaluation of the effects of program structural and process quality, materials, effective teaching, and teacher-child relationships on academic and social skills outcomes in a sample of 2800 children from state-funded pre-kindergarten programs in eleven states

Reports & Papers

Longitudinal effects of the Arkansas Better Chance program: Findings from kindergarten and first grade
Hustedt, Jason T.; Barnett, W. Steven; Jung, Kwanghee; , May 2008

A study of the relation of participation in Arkansas Better Chance (ABC), a state-funded child care and early education program for preschool-age children from low-income families, to the literacy, language, and math development of children at the beginning and end of kindergarten and at the end of first grade, and a study of classroom quality in the ABC program

Reports & Papers

Supporting online material for: Preschool programs can boost school readiness
Gormley, Jr., William T.; Phillips, Deborah A.; Gayer, Ted; , July 01, 2008

Supplemental material to a comparison of the academic skills of experimental groups of 1,264 children completing public prekindergarten and 327 children completing Head Start programs and control groups of 1,492 children entering public prekindergarten and 483 children entering Head Start programs in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Reports & Papers

Analysis of individual child assessment for a sample of children who are receiving Child Development Education Pilot Program (CDEPP) services: Spring 2007 and fall 2007
Greer, Fred; Googe, Heather Smith; Brown, William H.; ,

An assessment of the progress of children receiving Child Development Education Pilot Program (CDEPP) services, based on data for 150 children receiving CDEPP services in public school and private center classrooms in South Carolina

Reports & Papers

The New Mexico PreK evaluation: Results from the initial four years of a new state preschool initiative: Final report
Hustedt, Jason T.; Barnett, W. Steven; Jung, Kwanghee; Goetze, Linda D.; , November 2009

An evaluation of the quality, economic impact, and parent provider perceptions of New Mexico’s prekindergarten program, and an examination of the influence of the program on children’s academic achievements, based on data on participants in the program from the 2005-2006 through 2007-2008 academic school year

Reports & Papers

The New Mexico PreK evaluation: Impacts from the fourth year (2008-2009) of New Mexico's state-funded prek program
Hustedt, Jason T.; Barnett, W. Steven; Jung, Kwanghee; Friedman, Allison H.; , November 2010

A study of the impact of participation in New Mexico PreK, a state-funded preschool program for four-year-old children offered through a variety of public and community-based providers, on children's receptive vocabulary, early literacy, and early math skills at kindergarten entry, based on comparisons of assessments of children who had completed a year of prekindergarten with nonparticipants who had missed the enrollment age cut-off and were about to start prekindergarten

Reports & Papers

Kentucky Professional Development Framework Impact on Quality and Child Outcomes, 2006-2007
Rous, Beth; Grisham-Brown, Jennifer; , 2010

A study of the factors that predict early childhood education and care professional development outcomes and the relationship of these factors to program quality, child outcomes, and staff retention, based on data collected from participants in a statewide professional development system in Kentucky and from their students, classrooms, and programs.

Data Sets

How many letters should preschoolers in public programs know?: The diagnostic efficiency of various preschool letter-naming benchmarks for predicting first-grade literacy achievement
Piasta, Shayne B.; Petscher, Yaacov; Justice, Laura M.; , 2012

A study of the association between end-of-preschool letter-naming abilities and risk status on first-grade measures of word reading, spelling, and reading comprehension, and an examination of optimal end-of-preschool letter-naming benchmarks for the children in the sample, based on data from 371 children in Virginia and Ohio

Reports & Papers

Effects of five state prekindergarten programs on early learning
Barnett, W. Steven; Jung, Kwanghee; Wong, Vivian C.; Cook, Thomas D.; Lamy, Cynthia Esposito; , October 2007

A study of the impact of state prekindergarten programs in Michigan, New Jersey, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and West Virginia on children's vocabulary, math, and print awareness skills by comparing children who had completed a year of prekindergarten with nonparticipants who had missed the enrollment age cut-off and were about to start prekindergarten

Reports & Papers

Accounting for movement between childcare classrooms: Does it change teacher effects interpretations?
Setodji, Claude M.; Le, Vi-Nhuan; Schaack, Diana , January-February 2012

A study of the prevalence of teacher and child movement between classrooms, of the link between head and assistant teachers' qualifications and quality of care, and of the relationship between head and assistant teacher qualifications and children's literacy, receptive language, and mathematics skills that includes an examination of the mediating influence of child and teacher movement on that relationship, based on data from community-based child care centers serving 790 primarily low-income children in Colorado

Reports & Papers

The effects of Oklahoma’s pre-K program on Hispanic children
Gormley, Jr., William T.; , December 2008

An assessment of the effects of Oklahoma’s universal prekindergarten program on the learning gains of Hispanic students in Tulsa, based on an experimental group of 274 students who have completed prekindergarten and a control group of 333 students about to enter prekindergarten

Reports & Papers

A study of Classroom Literacy Interventions and Outcomes in Even Start
Judkins, David R.; St. Pierre, Robert G.; Gutmann, Babette; Goodson, Barbara D.; Von Glatz, Adrienne; Hamilton, Jennifer; Webber, Ann; Troppe, Patricia; Rimdzius, Tracy; , September 2008

An evaluation of the impacts of research-based, literacy-focused early childhood education and parenting education curricula in Even Start programs on child language, literacy, and social competence, parenting skills, parent literacy, and instructional practices in Even Start, including: a comparison of the impacts of preschool, parenting, and parent-child curricula with the impacts of existing Even Start services; and an examination of the value added by parenting and parent-child curricula to preschool curricula

Reports & Papers

Fostering alphabet knowledge development: A comparison of two instructional approaches
Piasta, Shayne B.; Purpura, David J.; Wagner, Richard K.; , July 2010

An examination of the effect of letter instruction on children’s learning of the alphabet, based on a sample of 58 3- and 4-year olds from 4 private child care settings in a mid-sized southeastern city randomly assigned to receive letter name and sound instruction (LNLS), letter sound instruction (LS), or number instruction

Reports & Papers

Report of the findings from the Early Childhood Study: 2001-02
Henry, Gary T.; Henderson, Laura W.; Ponder, Bentley D.; Gordon, Craig S.; Mashburn, Andrew J.; Rickman, Dana K.; , 2003

A study of the development of young children attending private and state-funded preschool programs under Georgia's prekindergarten initiative

Reports & Papers

Head Start's comparative advantage: Myth or reality?
Gormley, Jr., William T.; Phillips, Deborah A.; Adelstein, Shirley; Shaw, Catherine; , August 2010

A comparison of the cognitive, socioemotional, and health effects of Head Start and public prekindergarten programs in Tulsa, Oklahoma, based on child assessments, a survey of parents and teachers, and administrative data

Reports & Papers

Final evaluation report: Lessons learned from the MELF community grants
University of Minnesota. Center for Early Education and Development; , December, 2009

Findings from an evaluation of high quality early childhood education and care programs funded by community grants from the Minnesota Early Learning Foundation, based on participant data gathered through student assessments and parent surveys

Reports & Papers

What helps and hinders Hmong pre-kindergartners' school readiness?: Learning from and about the Hmong in St. Paul, Minnesota
Xiong, Zha Blong; Yang, Kao Kalia; Lee, Jesse Kao; , April 2008

A study of the conditions of Hmong children and families in St. Paul, Minnesota, Hmong children's school readiness, and factors that help and hinder Hmong children's school readiness, based on administrative and child care provider data and on focus groups

Reports & Papers

Promoting the development of preschool children's emergent literacy skills: A randomized evaluation of a literacy-focused curriculum and two professional development models
Lonigan, Christopher J.; Farver, Jo Ann M.; Phillips, Beth M.; Clancy-Menchetti, Jeanine; , March, 2011

A study of the impact of a literacy-focused preschool curriculum and two types of professional development on the emergent literacy skills of at-risk children, based on data from teachers and 739 children in 48 preschools

Reports & Papers

Early literacy and early numeracy: The value of including early literacy skills in the prediction of numeracy development
Purpura, David J.; Hume, Laura E.; Sims, Darcey M.; Lonigan, Christopher J.; , December, 2011

A study of the relationship between the early preschool measures of print knowledge, vocabulary, and phonological awareness, and the measures of numeracy skills a year later, in a sample of 69 children enrolled in 10 Florida preschools

Reports & Papers

Relation of preschool teachers' linguistic responsiveness to growth in children's language and literacy outcomes
Cockburn, Mary K. , August 2009

A linguistic study of the relationships between preschool teachers’ language responses and children’s growth in vocabulary, print concepts, and letter knowledge scores from transcripts of recordings during book reading and non-book reading contexts from 270 students in Head Start centers

Reports & Papers

Two approaches to teaching young children science concepts, vocabulary, and scientific problem-solving skills
Hong, Soo-Young; Diamond, Karen E. , Q2 2012

A comparison of the impact of two different approaches to teaching science--responsive teaching and the combination of responsive teaching and explicit instruction--on children's learning about science concepts, science vocabulary, and scientific problem-solving skills, based on data from 104 four- and five-year-olds attending early childhood programs in a mid-size midwestern community and their parents

Reports & Papers

Impacts of New Mexico PreK on children's school readiness at kindergarten entry: Results from the second year of a growing initiative
Hustedt, Jason T.; Barnett, W. Steven; Jung, Kwanghee; Figueras, Alexandra; , June 2008

A study of the effects of participation in New Mexico PreK, a state-funded preschool program for four-year-old children offered through a variety of public and community-based providers, on children's receptive vocabulary, early literacy, and early math skills at kindergarten entry, based on assessments of children participating in the program's second year

Reports & Papers

Giant steps for the littlest children: Progress in the sixth year of the Abbott preschool program: Year three initial update, 2004-2005
Lamy, Cynthia Esposito; Frede, Ellen; Seplocha, Holly; Strasser, Janis; Jambunathan, Saigeetha; Juncker, Jo Ann; Wolock, Ellen; , 2005

An annual report evaluating the quality of Abbott School District preschool classrooms in New Jersey and measuring Abbott preschoolers' academic performance

Other

Children's classroom engagement and school readiness gains in prekindergarten
Chien, Nina C.; Howes, Carollee; Burchinal, Margaret; Pianta, Robert C.; Ritchie, Sharon; Bryant, Donna M.; Clifford, Richard M.; Early, Diane Marie; Barbarin, Oscar; , September/October 2010

A study of the relationship between child engagement in public prekindergarten classrooms and school readiness gains, based on data from 2,751 children from the Multi-State Study of Pre-Kindergarten and the State-Wide Early Education Programs Study (SWEEP)

Reports & Papers

Developing emergent literacy skills: The impact of alphabet instruction
Piasta, Shayne B.; , 2008

An examination of the effect of alphabetic instruction on children’s letter knowledge and the links between alphabet instruction on children’s acquisition of phonological processing and emergent literacy skills, based on a sample of 58 three- and 4-year old children from four child care centers in a mid-sized Southeastern city who received either letter name and letter sound instruction, only letter name instruction, or a number identification as part of a control group

Reports & Papers

How do linguistically diverse students fare in full- and half-day kindergarten? Examining academic achievement, instructional quality, and attendance
Hall-Kenyon, Kendra M.; Bingham, Gary; Korth, Byran B.; , January 2009

A comparison of four full-day and four half-day kindergartens in the areas of instructional quality, attendance rates, and student academic achievement, and an examination of the scores of the sub-populations of kindergarteners learning English as an additional language within these classrooms

Reports & Papers

Mental health screening of preschool children: Validity and reliability of ABLE
Barbarin, Oscar; , July 2007

An assessment of a screening tool used to identify preschool children potentially suffering from attention, behavior, language, and emotional difficulties

Reports & Papers

How do parents support preschoolers’ numeracy learning experiences at home?
Skwarchuk, Sheri-Lynn; , December 2009

An examination of the relationship between parental involvement in early numeracy experiences and home activities and preschooler's numeracy knowledge based on data collected from 25 participant children and their parents attending a university preschool in Canada

Reports & Papers

Teacher and classroom characteristics associated with teachers' ratings of prekindergartners' relationships and behaviors
Mashburn, Andrew J.; Hamre, Bridget; Downer, Jason T.; Pianta, Robert C.; , 2006

An investigation of the effects of teacher and classroom characteristics on their ratings of preschool socioemotional competence using data from the National Center for Early Development and Learning Multi-State Study of Pre-Kindergarten, 2001-2003

Reports & Papers

Prediction of kindergartners' academic achievement from their effortful control and emotionality: Evidence for direct and moderated relations
Valiente, Carlos; Lemery-Chalfant, Kathryn; Swanson, Jodi; , 2010

A study of the relationships between academic achievement and both effortful control and emotionality, including anger, sadness, and shyness, based on data from a longitudinal study of 291 kindergartners

Reports & Papers

What is pre-kindergarten?: Characteristics of public pre-kindergarten programs
Clifford, Richard M.; Barbarin, Oscar; Chang, Florence; Early, Diane Marie; Bryant, Donna M.; Howes, Carollee; Burchinal, Margaret; Pianta, Robert C.; , 2005

A study of the demographics and staff and structural quality of publicly-funded prekindergarten programs across 6 states

Reports & Papers

Project Early Kindergarten evaluation: Results through 2009-10 of a Saint Paul Public Schools initiative
Maxfield, Jennifer; Gozali-Lee, Edith; Mueller, Daniel P.; , November 2010

A longitudinal evaluation of Project Early Kindergarten (PEK), a prekindergarten program offered in public schools and community-based child care settings in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to improve the school readiness of at risk children, that examined the relationship of program participation to children's academic and social skills in kindergarten through third grade

Reports & Papers

Preschoolers with disabilities: Characteristics, services, and results: Wave 1 overview from the Pre-Elementary Education Longitudinal Study (PEELS)
National Center for Special Education Research; , 2006

An overview of data collected during the first year of the Pre-Elementary Education Longitudinal Study (PEELS), a national study of 2,906 preschool children with special needs, including data on: characteristics of children, families, services, and providers; transitions; and school-related readiness and behavior

Reports & Papers

Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES), 2006 Cohort
United States. Administration for Children and Families; , 2010

The Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) is a periodic, ongoing longitudinal study of program performance. Successive nationally representative samples of Head Start children, their families, classrooms, and programs provide descriptive information on the population of children and families served; staff qualifications, credentials, and opinions; Head Start classroom practices and quality measures; and child and family outcomes. FACES includes a battery of child assessments across multiple developmental domains (cognitive, social, emotional, and physical).

Data Sets

The impact of the Kentucky professional development framework on child care, Head Start and public preschool classroom quality and child outcomes
Rous, Beth; Grove, Jaime; Cox, Megan; Townley, Kimberly; Crumpton, Gwendolyn; , 2008

A study of the factors that predict early childhood education and care professional development outcomes and the relationship of these factors to program quality, child outcomes, and staff retention, based on data collected from participants in a statewide professional development system in Kentucky and from their students, classrooms, and programs

Reports & Papers

Educational effects of a vocabulary intervention on preschoolers' word knowledge and conceptual development: A cluster-randomized trial
Neuman, Susan B.; Newman, Ellen H.; Dwyer, Julie , July/August/September 2011

An examination of the effects of the World of Words vocabulary program on children's word, conceptual, category, and property knowledge, based data from 3- and 4-year-old children in 28 Head Start classrooms in 12 schools

Reports & Papers

Evaluation of Parent Aware: Minnesota's quality rating and improvement system pilot: Final evaluation report
Tout, Kathryn; Starr, Rebecca; Isner, Tabitha K.; Cleveland, Jennifer; Albertson-Junkans, Ladia; Soli, Margaret; Quinn, Katie; , December, 2011

An evaluation of Parent Aware, Minnesota's quality rating and improvement system (QRIS), that examines programs' experiences and patterns of enrollment, ratings, and improvement, risk status of children served, parent and child ratings, and the relationship of program ratings to observed quality and children's developmental gains, based on program surveys and observations, direct and indirect child assessments, parent interviews, administrative data, and data on program supports

Reports & Papers

Activity settings and daily routines in preschool classrooms: Diverse experiences in early learning settings for low-income children
Fuligni, Allison Sidle; Howes, Carollee; Huang, Yiching; Hong, Sandra Soliday; Lara-Cinisomo, Sandraluz; , Q2 2012

An identification of two routines profiles--structured-balanced and high free choice, derived from varying proportions of teacher-directed and child-initiated activities during the preschool day, and a study of the relationship between those routine profiles and structural program characteristics, measures of process quality, children's engagement in activities of various academic contents, teachers' instructional strategies, and children's school readiness skills, based on data from 53 public preschool classrooms, 47 private preschool classrooms, and 25 family child care homes that serve low-income children in Los Angeles, California

Reports & Papers

The development of cognitive skills and gains in academic school readiness for children from low-income families
Welsh, Janet A.; Nix, Robert L.; Blair, Clancy; Bierman, Karen L.; Nelson, Keith E. , February 2010

A longitudinal study of the relationship between executive function and growth in both emergent literacy and numeracy in the prekindergarten year and the kindergarten reading and math achievement of 164 children in Head Start

Reports & Papers

Links between behavioral regulation and preschoolers' literacy, vocabulary, and math skills
McClelland, Megan; Cameron, Claire; Connor, Carol McDonald; Farris, Carrie L.; Jewkes, Abigail M.; Morrison, Frederick J.; , July 2007

A longitudinal study of the effect of preschool students' behavioral regulation skills, including paying attention, following instructions, and inhibiting inappropriate action, on their emergent literacy, math skills, and vocabulary, based on a sample of 310 preschool children

Reports & Papers

Evaluation of the First 5 LA Family Literacy Initiative: Final evaluation report
Quick, Heather; Manship, Karen; Parrish, Deborah (Montgomery); Madsen, Shannon; Lyman-Munt, Eva; Ernandes, Jessica; Rojas, Daniela; Helsel, Fiona; Howes, Carollee; Jung, Youngok; , 12 January, 2011

Findings from an eight-year process and outcome evaluation of the First 5 LA Family Literacy Initiative, a comprehensive program to promote literacy among low-income families in Los Angeles County, that examines both program characteristics and quality and both child and parent school participation and literacy outcomes

Reports & Papers

The effects of West Virginia's Early Education Program on young children's school readiness
Lamy, Cynthia Esposito; Barnett, W. Steven; Jung, Kwanghee; , 2005

A study of the impact of West Virginia’s Early Education Program regarding entering kindergarten student’s language, early literacy, and early math skills

Reports & Papers

Evaluation of the First 5 LA Family Literacy Initiative: Year 5/6 report
Quick, Heather; Manship, Karen; Parrish, Deborah (Montgomery); Rojas, Daniela; Hauser, Alison; Howes, Carollee; Jung, Youngok; , May 22, 2009

Findings from the fifth and sixth years of the implementation and impact evaluation of the First 5 LA Family Literacy Initiative, a comprehensive program to promote literacy among low-income families in Los Angeles County, that examined program characteristics and quality and child and parent outcomes

Reports & Papers

A structured observation of behavioral self-regulation and its contribution to kindergarten outcomes
Ponitz, Claire E. Cameron; McClellan, Michelle M.; Matthews, J. S.; Morrison, Frederick J.; , May 2009

An assessment of the predictive validity of the Head-Toes-Knees-Shoulders (HTKS) task through a longitudinal study of the correlations between children's HTKS scores and measures of their behavioral regulation, classroom functioning, and math, reading, and vocabulary scores before and in kindergarten, based on data collected from 343 children from Oregon and Michigan

Reports & Papers

Evaluation of the North Carolina More at Four pre-kindergarten program: Year 5 report (July 1, 2005-June 30, 2006): Children's outcomes & program quality in the fifth year
Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen S.; Schaaf, Jennifer M.; More at Four Evaluation Team; , February 2007

An evaluation of the 2003-2004 and 2005-2006 years of the North Carolina More at Four program, a state-funded initiative to provide high-quality educational experiences to at-risk four-year-olds, that addresses characteristics of local programs, quality of services provided, and participant outcomes, based on monthly program reports, classroom observations, and child assessments

Reports & Papers

Estimated impacts of number of years of preschool attendance on vocabulary, literacy and math skills at kindergarten entry
Barnett, W. Steven; Lamy, Cynthia Esposito; , 2006

An analysis of the effects of years of preschool attendance on vocabulary, literacy, and math skills at kindergarten entrance based on direct child assessments

Reports & Papers

The measurement of executive function at age 5: Psychometric properties and relationship to academic achievement
Willoughby, Michael T.; Blair, Clancy; Wirth, R. J.; Greenberg, Mark; The Family Life Project Investigators; , March, 2012

An examination of the psychometric properties and the criterion validity of a newly developed battery of executive function tasks for use in early childhood, based on data from a prospective longitudinal study of 1,009 families oversampled from low-income and African American families who participated in the age 5 home visit of the Family Life Project

Reports & Papers

Genetic and environmental influences on vocabulary and reading development
Olson, Richard K.; Keenan, Janice M.; Byrne, Brian; Samuelsson, Stefan; Coventry, William L.; Corley, Robin; Wadsworth, Sally J.; Willcutt, Erik G.; DeFries, J. C.; Pennington, Bruce Franklin; Hulslander, Jacqueline; , January, 2011

A longitudinal study of changes in the influence of genes and the environment on the reading and vocabulary scores of children measured at prekindergarten, second grade, and fourth grade, based on data collected from 997 pairs of twins from four countries

Reports & Papers

Head Start Impact Study final report
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation; , January 2010

A longitudinal study of the effect of Head Start participation on both children's school readiness and the practices of parents, based on data collected from more than 4,600 applicants, randomly assigned to either Head Start or alternate programs, from a nationally representative sample of 378 Head Start centers

Reports & Papers

Assessing preschool number sense: Skills demonstrated by children prior to school entry
Howell, Sally; Kemp, Coral , July 2010

A study of the relationships between mathematics difficulties, receptive vocabulary, and mathematical skills, a second study of essential components of early number sense, and a third study of the relationship between receptive vocabulary and mathematics skills and both type of early childhood setting and gender for 176 children at preschools and child care centers in a socially inclusive urban area of Sydney, Australia

Reports & Papers

Instruction in Spanish in pre-kindergarten classrooms and child outcomes for English language learners
Burchinal, Margaret; Field, Samuel; Lopez, Michael; Howes, Carollee; Pianta, Robert C.; , Q2 2012

An examination of the relationship between the language, reading, and math skills of English language learners and both the proportion of instruction in Spanish and observed quality of teacher-child interactions, based on data from 357 Spanish-speaking 4-year-old children who attended state-funded pre-kindergarten programs in 11 states

Reports & Papers

Children enrolled in public pre-K: The relation of family life, neighborhood quality, and socioeconomic resources to early competence
Barbarin, Oscar; Bryant, Donna M.; McCandies, Terry T.; Burchinal, Margaret; Early, Diane Marie; Clifford, Richard M.; Pianta, Robert C.; Howes, Carollee; , 2006

An examination of the relations of young children's sociodemographic characteristics, parental well-being, family functioning, and neighborhood quality to their early academic achievements and socioemotional competence

Reports & Papers

How is taking care of caregivers of children with disabilities related to academic achievement?
Barnard-Brak, Lucy; Thomson, David , April 2009

A longitudinal examination of the links between respite care services for parents of children with disabilities and children's academic achievement, based on a sample of more than 13,000 children from a larger national study on special needs children

Reports & Papers

Parent–school relationships and children's academic and social outcomes in public school pre-kindergarten
Powell, Douglas R.; Son, Seung-Hee; File, Nancy; San Juan, Robert R.; , August 2010

A study of the associations between parent-school relationships and child early reading, mathematics, language, social skills, and problem behavior outcomes based on data from 140 preschool children and their parents or primary caregivers in 13 prekindergarten classrooms in 12 elementary schools in a large urban school district in the Midwest

Reports & Papers

Effects of an early literacy professional development intervention on Head Start teachers and children
Powell, Douglas R.; Diamond, Karen E.; Burchinal, Margaret; Koehler, Matthew J.; , May 2010

A study of the effects of participation in one semester of Classroom Links to Early Literacy on teacher's teaching practices, classroom environment, early literacy classroom supports, and children's early literacy development and an examination of pre- and post-intervention classsroom and child outcomes for teachers assigned to remote or on-site coaching conditions for 88 Head Start teachers of 759 children, across 5 Head Start programs in a midwest state

Reports & Papers

The short-term effect of grade retention on peer relations and academic performance of at-risk first graders
Gleason, Katie A.; Kwok, Oi-man; Hughes, Jan N.; , 2007

A longitudinal study of the effects of grade retention on children's academic competencies and peer acceptance, using a sample of 350 ethnically diverse and academically at-risk first graders in Texas

Reports & Papers

A time lag analysis of temporal relations between motivation, academic achievement, and two cognitive abilities
Greene, Monica R.; Pasnak, Robert; Romero, Sandy L.; , September 2009

A study of the direction of relationships between motivation, and children's cognitive, math and reading levels, in a sample of 38 boys and 49 girls ranging in age from 4 to 5 years old tested twice for each variable with an interval of 11 weeks between the first and second test

Reports & Papers

Role of resilient personality on lower achieving first grade students' current and future achievement
Kwok, Oi-man; Hughes, Jan N.; Luo, Wen; , February 2007

A longitudinal study of the effect of personality resilience on the academic achievement of lower achieving first grade children, taking into account children's externalizing behaviors, cognitive ability, and family adversity, in a sample of 445 children from three school districts in Texas

Reports & Papers

The effects of Oklahoma's pre-k program on Hispanic children
Gormley, Jr., William T.; , November 08, 2007

A study of the impacts of Oklahoma's publicly-funded, universal prekindergarten program on the early reading, writing, and math skills of Hispanic students in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the variation of impacts with primary language spoken in the child's home, parents' country of origin, and teachers' Spanish-language ability, based on child assessment data

Reports & Papers

Schooling effects on preschoolers' self-regulation, early literacy, and language growth
Skibbe, Lori E.; Connor, Carol McDonald; Morrison, Frederick J.; Jewkes, Abigail M.; , Q1 2011

An examination of the influence of preschool attendance on children's self-regulation and early language and literacy skills, based on assessments of 76 children assessed in the fall and spring of either their first or second years of preschool

Reports & Papers

Saint Paul Early Childhood Scholarship Program evaluation: Annual report: Year 3
Minnesota Early Learning Foundation; , 15 April, 2011

An evaluation of the third year of the pilot of the Saint Paul Early Childhood Scholarship Program--a market-oriented scholarship model that includes home visits to inform parents about the benefits of high-quality early care and education, scholarships for low-income families to pay for high-quality early care and education, and Parent Aware, a program quality rating system--that examines enrollment, participation, and characteristics of children and families, children's developmental outcomes, early childhood education program supply and quality in pilot communities, and the costs and uses of the scholarship funds

Reports & Papers

Evaluation of the North Carolina More at Four pre-kindergarten program year 6 report (July 1, 2006-June 30, 2007): Children's longitudinal outcomes and program quality over time (2003-2007)
Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen S.; Schaaf, Jennifer M.; , February 2008

A longitudinal follow-up in their kindergarten year of two cohorts of participants (starting the program in 2003-2004 and 2005-2006, respectively) in the North Carolina More at Four pre-kindergarten program, a state-funded initiative to provide high-quality educational experiences to at-risk four-year-olds, that evaluated classroom quality and participant outcomes, based on classroom observations and child assessments

Reports & Papers

Pre-kindergarten in eleven states: NCEDL's Multi-State Study of Pre-Kindergarten and study of State-Wide Early Education Programs (SWEEP): Preliminary descriptive report
Early, Diane Marie; Barbarin, Oscar; Bryant, Donna M.; Burchinal, Margaret; Chang, Florence; Clifford, Richard M.; Crawford, Gisele M.; Howes, Carollee; Ritchie, Sharon; Kraft-Sayre, Marcia E.; Pianta, Robert C.; Barnett, W. Steven; Weaver, Wanda; , 2005

An outline of key descriptive findings about the characteristics of prekindergarten children and their families, teachers and their classes, classroom quality, and academic assessments, from the Multi-State Study of Pre-Kindergarten and the Study of State-Wide Early Education Programs (SWEEP)

Reports & Papers

The effects of the Michigan School Readiness Program on young children's abilities at kindergarten entry
Lamy, Cynthia Esposito; Barnett, W. Steven; Jung, Kwanghee; , 2005

A study on the effects of the Michigan School Readiness Program on language, early literacy and early math skills in children entering kindergarten, part of a larger study on school readiness

Reports & Papers

Educational effects of an embedded multimedia vocabulary intervention for economically disadvantaged pre-k children: A randomized trial
Neuman, Susan B.; Newman, Ellen H.; Dwyer, Julie; ,

An examination of the effect of a multimedia intervention on children's vocabulary and early literacy skills, based on data for 604 three and four year old children from 7 classrooms randomly assigned to receive the intervention and 7 classrooms randomly assigned to a control group

Reports & Papers

Neighborhood community influences on preschool children's development and school readiness
Hanson, Marci; Miller, Angela D.; Diamond, Karen E.; Odom, Samuel L.; Lieber, Joan; Butera, Gretchen; Horn, Eva M.; Palmer, Susan; Fleming, Kandace; , January-March 2011

An examination of the influence of socioeconomic disadvantage and language isolation on children's social skills and academic outcomes, based on a sample of 1,006 four-year-old children, including 195 English language learners (ELLs) and 164 children with disabilities

Reports & Papers

ESTART validation study: Final report
Klute, Mary M.; , June 2008

A study of the reliability and validity of the Early Childhood Standards Assessment of Readiness Tool (ESTART)

Reports & Papers

Missouri Preschool Project: Parent report
Fuger, Kathryn Lu Magnuson; Todd, Melissa L.; Thornburg, Kathy R.; Mathews, Michelle C.; Mayfield, Wayne A.; , July 2003

An inquiry into the child care experiences and development of children and families prior to entering kindergarten, based on a survey of 232 parents whose children participated in the Missouri Preschool Program (MPP) and were assessed for a previous study

Reports & Papers

Red light, purple light: Findings from a randomized trial using circle time games to improve behavioral self-regulation in preschool
Tominey, Shauna L.; McClelland, Megan , May, 2011

A study of the impact of several circle time games on changes in behavioral self-regulation, letter-word identification, expressive vocabulary, and mathematical operations abilities over the prekindergarten year, based on experimental data from 65 preschool children in two child development centers in Oregon

Reports & Papers

Infant-toddler teachers can successfully employ authentic assessment: The Learning Through Relating system
Moreno, Amanda J.; Klute, Mary M.; , Q4 2011

A documentation of the reliability and validity of the Learning Through Relating Child Assets Record infant-toddler authentic assessment and its feasibility for use by infant-toddler caregivers in an Early Head Start program, based on data from sample of 98 children and their caregivers

Reports & Papers

ACF/OPRE report: Head Start children go to kindergarten
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation; , December 2010

A profile of the development, families, and home and school environments of kindergarten children who had entered Head Start in the fall of 2006, based on data from the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey 2006 (FACES 2006)

Reports & Papers

Changes in the characteristics, services, and performance of preschoolers with disabilities from 2003-04 to 2004-05: Wave 2 overview report from the Pre-Elementary Education Longitudinal Study (PEELS)
Carlson, Elaine; Daley, Tamara; Shimshak, Amy; Riley, Jarnee; Keller, Brad; Jenkins, Frank; Markowitz, Joy; , 2008

Findings from the Pre-Elementary Education Longitudinal Study (PEELS), a nationally representative longitudinal study of three-, four-, and five-year-old children with disabilities, the services they receive, and their transition to and performance in school, from the study's first and second waves during the 2003-04 and 2004-05 school years

Reports & Papers

Evaluating the efficacy of the Parents Activate Literacy Skills (PALS) program
Corbisiero, Amii M. , 2009

A study of the effect of the PALS parent implemented emergent literacy intervention and a study of the effect of Supportive Parenting Training on both the reading readiness of preschoolers and parent-child relationships among preschoolers and their caregivers in a sample 24 parents and their children 3 through 5 years who attend preschool

Reports & Papers

Assessing the validity of the Qualistar Early Learning quality rating and improvement system as a tool for improving child-care quality
Zellman, Gail L.; Perlman, Michal; Le, Vi-Nhuan; Setodji, Claude M.; , 2008

An evaluation of the Colorado Qualistar Early Learning quality rating and improvement system (QRIS), including: an assessment of system components and the relationships between them; a comparison of Qualistar measures to other established quality measures; and an examination of the association between quality improvements as measured by Qualistar components and children's socioemotional and cognitive outcomes.

Reports & Papers

Minnesota Family Literacy and School Readiness study: Results through year 2
Gozali-Lee, Edith; Mueller, Daniel P.; , March 2010

Findings from a two-year study that examined the relationship of Minnesota family literacy program dosage to children's school readiness and parents' literacy and involvement in their children's education

Reports & Papers

Patterns of young children's motivation for science and teacher-child relationships
Patrick, Helen; Mantzicopoulos, Panayota; Samarapungavan, Ala; French, Brian; , Winter 2008

An examination of demographic, early academic achievement, teacher-child relationship and science learning differences in the motivational profiles of a sample of 110 kindergarteners

Reports & Papers

Early gender differences in self-regulation and academic achievement
Matthews, J. S.; Ponitz, Claire E. Cameron; Morrison, Frederick J.; , August 2009

An exploration of gender differences in children’s abilities to self-regulate their behavior and their discrepancies in academic achievement, and an inquiry into the correlation between direct measures versus teacher ratings of students' behavior, based on a sample of 268 kindergarteners from 87 classrooms in 12 schools in a public school district in southeast Michigan

Reports & Papers

Assessing school readiness: Validity and bias in preschool and kindergarten teachers' ratings
Mashburn, Andrew J.; Henry, Gary T.; , December 2004

An examination of how preschool and kindergarten teachers' rate their students in terms of school readiness, academic skills, and communication skills and a comparison of these ratings with direct assessments of the children's skills

Reports & Papers

Project Early Kindergarten evaluation update: General overview of results through 2007-08 of a Saint Paul Public Schools initiative
Mohr, Caryn; Mueller, Daniel P.; Gozali-Lee, Edith; , September 2008

A synthesis of different components of an implementation and outcomes evaluation through the fourth year of Project Early Kindergarten, an early kindergarten program in St. Paul, Minnesota, for four-year-old children intended to facilitate the transition to kindergarten

Reports & Papers

Enhanced Early Head Start with employment services: 42-month impacts from the Kansas and Missouri sites of the Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation; United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation; , February, 2012

A study of the impact of a program model that incorporates parental employment and educational services into Early Head Start on service receipt, child care and early education experiences, employment, earnings, household income, parenting practices, parental psychological well-being, and child outcomes, based on data collected from 610 families randomly assigned to treatment or control groups at two pilot sites in Kansas and Missouri

Reports & Papers

Reliability and validity of child outcome measures with culturally and linguistically diverse preschoolers: The First 5 LA Universal Preschool Child Outcomes Study spring 2007 pilot study
Vogel, Cheri; Aikens, Nikki; Atkins-Burnett, Sally; Sama Martin, Emily; Caspe, Margaret; Sprachman, Susan; Love, John M.; , March 28, 2008

A pilot study identifying culturally and linguistically appropriate child developmental measures to be used in the Los Angeles Universal Preschool Child Outcomes Study, a study of children enrolled in Los Angeles Universal Preschool

Reports & Papers

Denver Preschool Program: Report on child outcomes: 2009-10 school year
Klute, Mary M.; , November 29, 2010

An investigation into children's school readiness after participation in the Denver Preschool Program (DPP), based on a sample of 201 children from Denver, Colorado who either received a tuition credit or attended a DPP quality improvement site compared with more than 3,000 children who did not

Reports & Papers

Effects of the structure of classmates’ perceptions of peers’ academic abilities on children’s perceived cognitive competence, peer acceptance, and engagement
Hughes, Jan N.; Zhang, Duan; , July 2007

An examination of the impact of the structure of peers’ perceptions of classmates’ academic abilities on children’s social acceptance, self-perceived cognitive competence, and teacher-rated classroom engagement, based on evaluations of 291 first grade students

Reports & Papers

Fine motor skills and executive function both contribute to kindergarten achievement
Cameron, Claire; Brock, Laura L.; Murrah, William M.; Bell, Lindsay H.; Worzalla, Samantha L.; Grissmer, David; Morrison, Frederick J.; , 2012

An examination of the relationships between both executive function and fine motor skills and multiple aspects of kindergarten academic achievement, based on data from 213 middle-socioeconomic status kindergarteners in 81 classrooms from a school district in the Midwest

Reports & Papers

Increasing young children's contact with print during shared reading: Longitudinal effects on literacy achievement
Piasta, Shayne B.; Justice, Laura M.; McGinty, Anita; Kaderavek, Joan N.; , May-June 2012

An examination of the impact of different weekly dosage levels of a 30-week intervention during which preschool teachers systematically referenced print during shared reading on preschoolers' early literacy, both 1 and 2 years later, based on data from 366 children in 85 preschool classrooms

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The effects of theoretically different instruction and student characteristics on the skills of struggling readers
Mathes, Patricia G.; Denton, Carolyn A.; Fletcher, Jack M.; Anthony, Jason L.; Francis, David J.; Schatschneider, Christopher; , 2005

A study examining the effects of two supplemental interventions on the skills of elementary school children with reading difficulties

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Informing the performance-based contract between First 5 LA and LAUP: Assessing child progress: Spring report
Xue, Yange; Atkins-Burnett, Sally; Caronongan, Pia; Moiduddin, Emily M.; , 10 December, 2010

A study of children's development from fall to spring in the Los Angeles Universal Preschool program and an examination of the validity of teacher-administered child assessments, based on a full battery of direct child assessments and brief teacher-administered assessments for a sample of 875 children

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The Chicago Program Evaluation Project: A picture of early childhood programs, teachers, and preschool-age children in Chicago: Final external report
Ross, Christine; Moiduddin, Emily M.; Meagher, Cassandra; Carlson, Barbara Lepidus; , December 2008

A study of four-year-old children and their experiences in early childhood education programs in Chicago in the 2006-2007 school year, including children's characteristics and developmental levels, characteristics of early childhood program teachers and classrooms, and children's development over the course of the school year and its relationship to family and classroom characteristics, based on child assessments, teacher interviews, and classroom observations in a representative sample of children and classes

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Concurrent and predictive validity of the Phelps Kindergarten Readiness Scale-II
Duncan, Jennifer; Rafter, Erin M.; , 2005

A study of the concurrent and predictive validity of the Phelps Kindergarten Readiness Scale, Second Edition (PKRS-II) in a sample of 74 kindergarten students as a screening tool for possible learning difficulties

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The Abbott Preschool Program Longitudinal Effects Study (APPLES): Interim report
Frede, Ellen; Jung, Kwanghee; Barnett, W. Steven; Lamy, Cynthia Esposito; Figueras, Alexandra; , June 2007

The interim results through kindergarten of a longitudinal study of the impact of participation in the New Jersey Abbott Preschool Program, a publicly-funded, high-quality preschool program for children in high-poverty school districts, based on classroom observations and direct child assessments

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Initial results of the evaluation of the Tennessee Voluntary Pre-K Program
Lipsey, Mark W.; Farran, Dale; Bilbrey, Carol; Hofer, Kerry G.; Dong, Nianbo; , April 2011

Findings from a random assignment study of and a regression discontinuity design study of the impact of participation in the Tennessee Voluntary Pre-K Program on children's literacy, language, and math skills

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Head Start Impact Study: First year findings
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation; , 2005

Preliminary first year findings from the Head Start Impact Study, a congressionally-mandated longitudinal controlled analysis of Head Start programs' impact on the development, learning skills, and school readiness of low income 3- and 4-year-old children, conducted across 23 states and 84 randomly selected Head Start agencies, using a sample of 5,000 children and based on data collected from parent interviews, child assessments, teacher surveys, interviews with center directors and other care providers, direct observations of the quality of care settings, and care provider ratings of children

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Evaluation of the North Carolina More at Four pre-kindergarten program: Children's longitudinal outcomes and classroom quality in kindergarten
Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen S.; Maris, Catherine L.; More at Four Evaluation Team; , August 2006

A longitudinal follow-up at kindergarten of participants in the 2003-2004 year of the North Carolina More at Four pre-kindergarten program, a state-funded initiative to provide high-quality educational experiences to at-risk four-year-olds, that evaluated classroom quality and participant outcomes, based on classroom observations and child assessments

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Project Early K 2005-06 evaluation results: School component
Mueller, Daniel P.; Heinrichs, Marian; Gozali-Lee, Edith; Schultz, Jennifer Lee; , September 2006

An evaluation of the implementation and outcomes of Project Early K, an early kindergarten program in St. Paul, Minnesota, for four-year-old children intended to facilitate the transition to kindergarten, based on interviews with principals, classroom observations, school and program records, parent surveys, and child assessments

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The APPLES Blossom: The Abbott Preschool Program Longitudinal Effects Study (APPLES): Preliminary results through 2nd grade: Interim report
Frede, Ellen; Jung, Kwanghee; Barnett, W. Steven; Figueras, Alexandra; , June 2009

Preliminary findings from a longitudinal study on the lasting effects of participation in an Abbott prekindergarten program on children’s language, literacy, and math skills in first and second grade

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Untangling the effects of shared book reading: Multiple factors and their associations with preschool literacy outcomes
Hindman, Annemarie H.; Connor, Carol McDonald; Jewkes, Abigail M.; Morrison, Frederick J.; , Q3 2008

An examination of code- and meaning-related verbal exchanges during adult-child book reading sessions in homes and preschools, and an examination of the relationship between the verbal exchanges and the children’s literacy skills on school entry, among a sample of 130 children and their caregivers and teachers.

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Saint Paul Early Childhood Scholarship Program evaluation: Final evaluation report: 2008-2011
Gaylor, Erika; Spiker, Donna; Williamson, Cyndi; Ferguson, Kate; , 31 December, 2011

An evaluation of the pilot of the Saint Paul Early Childhood Scholarship Program--a market-oriented scholarship model that includes home visits to inform parents about the benefits of high-quality early care and education, scholarships for low-income families to pay for high-quality early care and education, and Parent Aware, a program quality rating system--that examines characteristics of participating children, families, and programs, developmental outcomes of participating and nonparticipating children, early childhood education program supply and quality in pilot communities, and the costs and uses of the scholarship funds

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Comparing universal and targeted prekindergarten programs
Dotterer, Aryn M.; Burchinal, Margaret; Bryant, Donna M.; Early, Diane Marie; Pianta, Robert C.; , 2009

A comparison of classroom characteristics and preschooler achievement outcomes in universal and targeted pre-k programs based on a sample of over 400 children in over 800 classrooms

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Evaluation of the North Carolina More at Four pre-kindergarten program: Performance and progress in the seventh year (2007-2008): Year 7 report (July 1, 2007-June 30, 2008)
Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen S.; Schaaf, Jennifer M.; , 2008

A statewide evaluation of the 2007-2008 program year of the North Carolina More at Four pre-kindergarten program, a state-funded initiative to provide high-quality educational experiences to at-risk four-year-olds, that examined program characteristics, classroom quality, and participant outcomes, based on monthly program reports, classroom observations and child assessments

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Preschool instruction and children's emergent literacy growth
Connor, Carol McDonald; Morrison, Frederick J.; Slominski, Lisa; , November 2006

An examination of the relation between the type (implicit compared with explicit) of reading instruction and preschool children's emergent literacy development

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