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21st Century Community Learning Center program: A study to evaluate the success of a program in a rural county in east Tennessee
Collingsworth, Joy, 2005
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City

An investigation of the impact of a 21st Century Community Learning Center program on students and their families in three schools in rural Tennessee and an examination of the extent to which the program successfully implemented criteria deemed necessary by the United States Department of Education

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Assessing the effectiveness of Tennessee’s pre-kindergarten program: Annual report 2008-2009
Tennessee. Offices of Research and Education Accountability,
Nashville: Tennessee, Offices of Research and Education Accountability.

A longitudinal evaluation of Tennessee's prekindergarten program, based on new analyses of children's assessments conducted during the 2004-2005, 2005-2006, and 2006-2007 school years that compared children who participated in the prekindergarten program from 1998-1999 through 2005-2006 with those who did not

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Assessing the effectiveness of Tennessee’s pre-kindergarten program: First interim report
Tennessee. Offices of Research and Education Accountability, 12 December, 2007
Nashville: Tennessee, Offices of Research and Education Accountability.

A longitudinal evaluation of Tennessee’s prekindergarten program; based on a comparison of annual assessments of 5 cohorts of children who attended prekindergarten programs between 1999-2000 and the 2003-2004 school year with the annual assessments of children who did not

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Assessing the effectiveness of Tennessee’s pre-kindergarten program: Preliminary report
Tennessee. Offices of Research and Education Accountability, 04 September, 2007
Nashville: Tennessee, Offices of Research and Education Accountability.

An investigation into the academic achievement of participants in Tennessee’s prekindergarten program, and an exploration of program characteristics that promote participants’ short- and long-term academic achievement, based on a comparison of assessments of prekindergarten participants from the 1998-1999 through 2000-2001 program years with assessments of a random sample of children who did not participate in a prekindergarten program

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Assessing the effectiveness of Tennessee’s pre-kindergarten program: Second interim report
Tennessee. Offices of Research and Education Accountability, 18 August, 2008
Nashville: Tennessee, Office of Research and Educational Accountability.

A longitudinal evaluation of Tennessee's prekindergarten program, based on an analysis of children's assessments conducted during the 2004-2005, 2005-2006, and 2006-2007 school years that compared children who participated in the prekindergarten program from 1998-1999 through 2006-2007 with those who did not

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Assessing the effectiveness of Tennessee's pre-kindergarten program: Third interim report
Strategic Research Group, 09 March, 2010
Nashville: Tennessee, Comptroller of the Treasury.

A longitudinal evaluation of Tennessee's prekindergarten program, based on an analysis of children's assessments conducted during the 2007-2008 school years that compared children who participated in the prekindergarten program from 1998-1999 through 2007-2008 with those who did not

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Assessing the impact of Tennessee's pre-kindergarten program: Final report
Strategic Research Group, 31 May, 2011
Nashville: Tennessee, Offices of Research and Educational Accountability.

A longitudinal study of the relationship of participation in Tennessee state-funded prekindergarten to academic outcomes in kindergarten through fifth grade, based on an analysis of assessment data from children who participated in the program and a matched sample of nonparticipants

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The association between type of preschool experience and student achievement of economically disadvantaged students in four northeast Tennessee schools
McClellan, Robin Wade, 2005
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City

An examination of the impact of preschool experience on low income third grade students' academic achievements as measured by the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP)

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The effect of Tennessee's prekindergarten programs on young children's school readiness skills: A regression discontinuity design
Coburn, Jamie Lynn, December 2009
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville

A comparison of school readiness skills in samples of 179 students entering prekindergarten and 67 prekindergarten completers entering kindergarten and a second comparison upon kindergarten entry of the school readiness skills of the same 67 prekindergarten completers and 86 who had not attended prekindergarten

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The effects of four-year-old preschool attendance on reading and math achievement of third and fourth grade students
Nichols, J. Robin, May 2009
Unpublished doctoral dissertation: Trevecca Nazarene University, Nashville, TN

A study of the association between attendance in Zion Christian Academy's preschool program and students’ reading and math achievement and attitude towards school for 30 third grade and 26 fourth grade student's report cards and from the 2007-2008 Stanford 9 Achievement tests

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The effects of pre-k experience on Kindergarten Readiness Indicator scores: 4-year trends
Sell, Marie, November, 2009
Memphis, TN: Memphis City Schools.

A study of the relationship of Memphis, Tennessee, kindergarteners' language and mathematics skills to their child care and early education arrangements as 4-year-olds, based on assessment scores and parent survey data from 2006 through 2009 for more than 20,000 children

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An evaluation of a functional analysis assessment of preschool conceptual development: Examining the intervention efficacy of the Bracken Concept Development Program and the Bracken Basic Concept Scale-Revised with Head Start students
Wilson, Patti, 1999
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN

An inquiry into the efficacy of the Bracken Basic Concept Scale-Revised (BBCS-R) and the Bracken Concept Development Program (BCDP), based on a sample of 54 Head Start children in Shelby County, Tennessee

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High-quality pre-kindergarten: The key to crime prevention and school success in Tennessee
Fight Crime: Invest in Kids,
Washington, DC: Fight Crime: Invest in Kids.

An investigation into the use of children’s attendance in quality early childhood education and care in Tennessee as a deterrent for later participation in crime, based on longitudinal data from early years programs nationwide

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Increasing early literacy instruction of Head Start teachers using videotape consultation
Bose-Deakins, Jillayne E., 2005
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN

An evaluation of the effects of videotape consultation procedures on the literacy teaching practices of Head Start teachers to determine if the videotape created an increase in literacy instruction

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Initial results of the evaluation of the Tennessee Voluntary Pre-K Program
Lipsey, Mark W., April, 2011
Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University, Peabody Research Institute.

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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Map to Inclusive Child Care: Outcomes for year one
University of Connecticut. Health Center. Division of Child and Family Studies,
Farmington, CT: University of Connecticut, Health Center, Division of Child and Family Studies.

A presentation of outcomes of Map to Inclusive Child Care, an initiative to promote inclusive early childhood education and care in 10 states, including information on educator training, parent awareness, and legislation and policy

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Measuring quality in pre-kindergarten classrooms: Assessing the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale
Hofer, Kerry G., May, 2008
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

An examination of alternative scoring methods for and the psychometric properties of the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale, Revised Edition (ECERS-R), and a discussion of ECERS-R content and its implications for policy, based on secondary analyses of observation data for 261 early childhood classrooms from three studies and on survey responses from 16 experts

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Municipal leadership for afterschool: Citywide approaches spreading across the country
Institute for Youth, Education, and Families, 2011
Washington, DC: Institute for Youth, Education, and Families.

An examination and profiles of city-led efforts to build comprehensive out-of-school time systems, based on surveys and interviews with representatives from 27 cities

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Patterns of after-school care in middle childhood: Risk factors and developmental outcomes
Pettit, Gregory S., 1997
Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 43(3), 515-538

A study of the relationship between students’ participation in differing types of after-school care in the first, third, and fifth grades and the prediction of behavioral adjustment and academic performance in the sixth grade through examination of school records, interviews with 466 mothers, and teachers’ ratings for study participants in kindergarten and sixth-grade classes

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Responding to nonresponders: An experimental field trial of identification and intervention methods
McMaster, Kristen L., 2005
Exceptional Children, 71(4), 445-463

A comparison of the effectiveness of 2 treatments, a modified classroom intervention or individualized tutoring, for nonresponders to Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS), an evidence-based classwide reading intervention

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Seeds of Success: State Prekindergarten Initiatives 1998-1999
Blank, Helen, 1999
Washington, DC: Children's Defense Fund

A study of prekindergarten initiatives across different states in order to assess the quality of prekindergarten, the accessibility of prekindergarten and the way in which prekindergarten initiatives are integrated with other early childhood programs.

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A study of the impact of Imagination Library participation on kindergarten reading achievement
Embree, Lisa, December 2009
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Walden Unviersity, Minneapolis, MN

A study of the relationships between instructional reading levels and participation in a program that provides one free children’s book in the mail every month, by subsamples of children who qualify for free and reduced price school lunch, by gender, by the reported frequency of books read to children prior to kindergarten, as well as length of participation in the program, based on data from a stratified random sample 90 kindergartners from 3 schools in Sullivan County, Tennessee

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A study of prekindergarten literacy experiences in a northeast Tennessee school system
Gamble, Barbara Jean, May 2009
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City

An examination of the scores of prekindergarten students when presented with 3 different methods of literacy instruction

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