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Family-school connectedness and children's early social development
Serpell, Zewelanji Natashya, February, 2012
Social Development, 21(1), 21-46

An examination of the relationship between the qualities of family-school interactions and teacher ratings of child social abilities, and an examination of the moderating influences of family characteristics, based on data collected from 2966 children, their parents, their preschool teachers, and some of their kindergarten teachers

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Instruction in Spanish in pre-kindergarten classrooms and child outcomes for English language learners
Burchinal, Margaret, Q2 2012
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 27(2), 188-197

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

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A new measure for assessing the contributions of higher level processes to language comprehension performance in preschoolers
Hannon, Brenda, 2012
Journal of Educational Psychology, , 1-25

A validation of the preschooler component processes task (PR-CPT), a measure that provides estimates of a preschooler's ability to recall text, to make text-based inferences, to access knowledge from long-term memory, and to integrate this accessed knowledge with new information from the text, based on data from 73 4- to 6-year-old children recruited via flyers posted at the University of Texas at San Antonio and child care centers in the surrounding area

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A pilot study of a pictorial bilingual nutrition education game to improve the consumption of healthful foods in a Head Start population
Piziak, Veronica Kelly, April, 2012
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 9(4), 1319-1325

A comparison of the frequency of water, soda, milk, fruits, and vegetables offered to children in the home both at the beginning and at the end of the school year by parents after the introduction of a bilingual nutrition game to parents at school start and its regular use in Head Start centers over the course of the year, based on data from 413 parents of Head Start children at the Bastrop County Head Start in Texas

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Predicting kindergarteners' response to early reading intervention: An examination of progress-monitoring measures
Oslund, Eric L., January, 2012
Reading Psychology, 33(1-2), 78-103

A study of the predictive validity of The Early Reading Intervention (ERI) curriculum-embedded mastery checks of phonemic and alphabetic/decoding performance and of individual Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) nonsense word fluency and phoneme segmentation fluency-- two forms of progress-monitoring measures, on reading outcomes of kindergarten students, and an examination of what combinations of both DIBELS and curriculum-embedded phonemic and alphabetic/decoding measures have the best predictive validity, based on data from 64 children in Connecticut and in Texas kindergartens

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State pre-k assessment policies: Issues and status
Ackerman, Debra J., February, 2012
Princeton, NJ: ETS Policy Information Center.

A discussion of considerations for and approaches to the assessment of young children and a study of state prekindergarten child assessment policies in the 2011-2012 school year, based on a survey of state prekindergarten program personnel

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