Children's relationships with caregivers: Mothers and child care teachers
A study categorizing infants', toddlers', and preschool children's relationships with their mothers and teachers and relating these categories to levels of teacher involvement, based on direct observations
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Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project
This project involves both a cross-site national study and local longitudinal studies of low-income families with young children in Early Head Start sites in 17 communities in the United States. The project was funded in two waves: Birth to Three (1996-2001) and Pre-Kindergarten Follow-Up (2001-2004). The five major components of the project are: an implementation study, an impact evaluation, local research studies, policy studies, and efforts toward continuous program improvement. The implementation study assessed the level and quality of implementation of EHS at each site, as well as variations across sites, with regard to five program areas: child development and health care; family partnerships; community involvement and partnerships; staff development; and program management. Results include a profile of each of the 17 research programs, their services and expected outcomes. The information gathered was critical for the development of the impact evaluation analyses and the identification of pathways to full implementation. The impact evaluation followed a random assignment, longitudinal design to examine how child, parent and family outcomes were influenced by EHS programs, as well as by variations in program approaches and community contexts, program implementation and services, and the characteristics of children and their families. The third component involves 16 local research projects conducted by 15 university-based researchers who partnered with Early Head Start research programs. Designed to investigate the unique outcomes and program functions of each Early Head Start program, these longitudinal studies continue through the second phase of the project, Pre-Kindergarten Follow-up (2001-2004). The policy studies component focuses on issues related to welfare reform, health and disabilities, child-care and fatherhood. The component of continuous program improvement consists of reports and presentations disseminating new information that can help all Early Head Start programs to increase their ability to meet the needs of families.
Major Research Projects
Effects of a supplemental Spanish oral language program on sentence length, complexity, and grammaticality in Spanish-speaking children attending English-only preschools
A study the effects of a supplemental Spanish Oral Language program on Spanish sentence length, a subordination index, and grammar from 45 Spanish-speaking children attending English-only prekindergarten classrooms compared with 30 children in control classrooms, evaluated prior to, immediately after, and 4 months following intervention
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Impacts of child care subsidies on family and child well-being
An examination of the effects of child care subsidy receipt on low income mothers, comparing families receiving subsidies with families on waiting lists; factors examined included employment, income, percent of income spent on child care, and satisfaction with child care arrangements
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PAVEd for Success: An evaluation of a comprehensive preliteracy program for four-year-old children
A study of the effect of the prekindergarten-year implementation of the PAVEd for Success preliteracy curriculum, either alone or with supplementary literacy, phonological, or vocabulary training, on measures of classroom quality and changes in children's literacy and language skills through kindergarten, based on data collected from 350 children at control and experimental schools
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