Achieving high school graduation: Citizen Schools' youth outcomes in Boston
Findings from an evaluation of the seventh year of a longitudinal investigation into the influence of participation in Citizen Schools' 8th Grade Academy on students' later academic achievement, based on data for 448 participants from Boston, Massachusetts followed from high school selection to high school graduation
Reports & Papers
Advantages of gardening as a form of physical activity in an after-school program
A study of the relationship between participation in a Cooperative Extension Service after school gardening program and the self-reported physical activity levels of children, based on data from 31 children in third through fifth grade in Oklahoma
Reports & Papers
Afterschool programs in Vermont: Supporting success for all students
An overview of the features of high-quality after school programs, with a discussion of examples from Vermont
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Alberta Aboriginal Head Start in Urban and Northern Communities: Longitudinal study pilot phase
A pilot longitudinal evaluation study in one Alberta Head Start (AHS) site to assess outcomes for participants compared to age-matched non-AHS peers on literacy, achievement in school, prosocial skills and receptive vocabulary, the feasibility of the longitudinal method used, and its applicability to future longitudinal evaluative studies of AHS programs in Alberta, based on data from 48 children at one school in a small rural off-reserve aboriginal community northwest of Edmonton, Alberta
Reports & Papers
Alphabet and phonological awareness: Can it be enhanced in the early childhood setting?
A proposal to use professional development to increase teachers' understandings of both the alphabet principle and phonological awareness and to implement them both within a holistic curriculum and within the context of children’s play, based on literacy research conducted in New Zealand
Other
American Community Survey (ACS): Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS), 2007
The American Community Survey (ACS) is a nationwide survey designed to provide communities with a fresh look at how they are changing. It will replace the decennial long form in future censuses and is a critical element in the Bureau of the Census' re-engineered 2010 census. The decennial census has two parts, the short form, which counts the population, and the long form, which obtains demographic, housing, social and economic information from a 1-in-6 sample of households. The goals of the American Community Survey are to provide an information base to federal, state, and local governments for the administration and evaluation of their programs, to improve the 2010 Census, and to provide data users with timely demographic, housing, social, and economic data that can be compared across states, communities, and population groups. The American Community Survey will provide estimates of demographic, housing, social, and economic characteristics every year for all states, as well as for all cities, counties, metropolitan areas, and population groups.
Data Sets
American Community Survey (ACS): Three-Year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS), 2005-2007
The American Community Survey (ACS) is a nationwide survey designed to provide communities with a fresh look at how they are changing. It will replace the decennial long form in future censuses and is a critical element in the Bureau of the Census' re-engineered 2010 census. The decennial census has two parts, the short form, which counts the population, and the long form, which obtains demographic, housing, social and economic information from a 1-in-6 sample of households. Conducted under the authority of Title 13, United States Code, Sections 141 and 193, full implementation of the American Community Survey is planned in every county in the United States. The survey would include approximately three million households. Response is mandatory and data are collected by mail with Bureau of the Census staff conducting a follow-up with those who do not respond. The goals of the American Community Survey are to provide an information base to federal, state, and local governments for the administration and evaluation of their programs, to improve the 2010 Census, and to provide users with timely demographic, housing, social, and economic data every year for all states, as well as for all cities, counties, metropolitan areas, and population groups.The scope of the 1996 ACS was limited to housing units, occupied and vacant, in four sites. The four sites represented a broad mix of geographic areas ranging from a large, central city in a metropolitan area to a small nonmetropolitan county. These sites (1) Rockland County, New York; (2) Brevard County, Florida; (3) Fulton County, Pennsylvania; and (4) Multnomah County, Oregon and the city of Portland, Oregon.
Data Sets
Analysis of a mentoring program to change attitudes related to turnover of special needs teachers
A qualitative study of teachers' reasons for turnover, perceptions of successful program components, ideas for program implementation, and feedback on a pilot teacher mentoring program from semi-structured interviews with 5 newly-hired teachers in a preschool for autistic students in the 2008-2009 school year
Reports & Papers
Analyzing social experiments as implemented: A reexamination of the evidence from the High Scope Perry Preschool Program
A reanalysis of data from the Perry Preschool Project, a longitudinal experimental study of the impact of a preschool education and home visitation intervention on over 715 measured outcome variables of disadvantaged children in preschool, based on data from participants from age 3 through age 40
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Antecedents and correlates of the popular-aggressive phenomenon in elementary school
A study of the relationship between popular-aggressive behavior in grades 3 through 6 and cognitive functioning, maternal sensitivity, and participation in child care through age 4.5 from a secondary analysis of data from 1022 children
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Arizona Head Start State Collaboration Office: 2010 needs assessment
An examination of Arizona Head Start State Collaboration Office activities, based on surveys of key stakeholders and grantees and an analysis of secondary data
Reports & Papers
Assessing and creating effective preschool literacy classroom environments
A discussion of approaches both to develop and to assess early literacy preschool classroom environments and advice to ensure that the physical surroundings exert a positive influence on literacy learning
Other
Assessing children's needs
A discussion of select issues central to assessment in early care and education that includes conventional testing as a complement of informal assessment practices and a case study of one teacher's efforts to coordinate the results of multiple assessments for planning decisions
Reports & Papers
Assessing the effectiveness of Tennessee's pre-kindergarten program: Second annual report
A longitudinal evaluation of Tennessee's prekindergarten program, based on an analysis of children's assessments conducted during the 2005-2006 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: Second annual report [Executive summary]
A summary of a longitudinal evaluation of Tennessee's prekindergarten program, based on an analysis of children's assessments conducted during the 2005-2006 school years that compared children who participated in the prekindergarten program from 1998-1999 through 2005-2006 with those who did not
Executive Summary
Assessing the effectiveness of Tennessee's pre-kindergarten program: Third interim report
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
Reports & Papers
Assessing the effectiveness of Tennessee's pre-kindergarten program: Third interim report [Executive summary]
A summary of 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
Executive Summary
Assessing self-regulation: A guide for out-of-school time program practitioners
A discussion of self-regulation and role out-of-school time programs can play in measuring and building the capacity for self-regulation among children and youth
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Assessing staff relationships among out-of-school time program practitioners
A discussion of practices to assess relationships among staff in out-of-school time programs
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Assessing stress in children and youth: A guide for out-of-school time program practitioners
A discussion of stress and the role out-of-school time programs can play in measuring and reducing stress among children and youth
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Assessment of quality preschool programming
A study of the associations between classroom quality and both children's behavioral and language development, based on data collected from a random sample of 126 children from 50 South Carolina preschools
Reports & Papers
Assessments of learning-related skills and interpersonal skills constructs within early childhood environments in Singapore
A validity study of learning related and interpersonal skills constructs of two instruments based on 21 teacher ratings of 117 3- through 6-year-olds in Singapore
Reports & Papers
Associations among family environment, sustained attention, and school readiness for low-income children
A study of sustained attention as a mediator of the relationship between family environment and school readiness, based on data from 1,046 low income children, with family environment data collected at 3-years-old and both attention and school readiness data collected at 5-years of age
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'At a school like this': Implementing policy in a kindergarten reading program
A case study of the influence of early literacy policy on the practice of a teacher over the period of one year
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Basic factors that affect general academic motivation levels of candidate preschool teachers
An investigation of personal and familial factors associated with both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation levels of preservice early care and education teachers, based on data from 285 students in Turkey at Selcuk University Faculty of Vocational Education in the 2007-2008 academic year
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