Head Start and parent involvement
An overview of Head Start’s policies and principles for parent involvement
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The new workforce generation: Understanding the problems facing parental involvement in Jordanian kindergartens
A study of obstacles to parental participation in kindergartens and a study of the differences in parental participation when considering parental gender, education level, and socioeconomic status, based on the questionnaire responses of 297 parents of children attending Amman kindergartens
Reports & Papers
Parent involvement in early childhood home visiting
Overviews of elements of parental involvement and factors influencing parental involvement in early childhood home visiting programs
Other
Preschool work teams’ views of ways of working with gender: Parents’ involvement
A study of the views of teachers regarding partnerships with parents when providing gender-sensitive learning environments for preschoolers, based on focus group interviews with four teams of preschool teachers
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Maternal self-efficacy: Does it explain school involvement?
An investigation of the association between parent involvement and children's school readiness across different levels of parental self-efficacy from a study of 120 predominantly African American mothers' self ratings and teachers' ratings of mothers' school involvement
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Great Parents, Great Start: Evaluation report: 2006-2008 program years
An evaluation of the Great Parents, Great Start (GP, GS) program from 2006-2008, an initiative to promote parenting skills and familial involvement in children’s early education programs, including information on the relationships between intermediate school districts (ISD) and the local early education and care services within the community, the use of resources by programs, and the appropriateness of curricula for participants
Reports & Papers
Great Parents, Great Start: Evaluation report: 2006-2008 program years [Executive summary]
A summary of an evaluation of the Great Parents, Great Start (GP, GS) program from 2006-2008, an initiative to promote parenting skills and familial involvement in children’s early education programs, including information on the relationships between intermediate school districts (ISD) and the local early education and care services within the community, the use of resources by programs, and the appropriateness of curricula for participants
Executive Summary
Supporting parents in promoting early learning: The evaluation of the Early Learning Partnership Project
A summary of an evaluation of the Early Learning Partnership Project, in which 9 voluntary sector service agencies in the United Kingdom offered combinations of 12 interventions designed to increase parents' involvement in their one through three-year-old children's learning, based on interviews with agency staff, interviews with staff and managers at 20 sites, and interviews with and observations of more than 100 parents
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Supporting parents in promoting early learning: The evaluation of the Early Learning Partnership Project [Executive summary]
A summary of an evaluation of the Early Learning Partnership Project, in which 9 voluntary sector service agencies in the United Kingdom offered combinations of 12 interventions designed to increase parents' involvement in their one through three-year-old children's learning, based on interviews with agency staff, interviews with staff and managers at 20 sites, and interviews with and observations of more than 100 parents
Executive Summary
Supporting parents in promoting early learning: The evaluation of the Early Learning Partnership Project
An evaluation of the Early Learning Partnership Project, in which 9 voluntary sector service agencies in the United Kingdom offered combinations of 12 interventions designed to increase parents' involvement in their one through three-year-old children's learning, based on interviews with agency staff, interviews with staff and managers at 20 sites, and interviews with and observations of more than 100 parents
Reports & Papers
A study of Classroom Literacy Interventions and Outcomes in Even Start
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
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Using our understanding of families to strengthen family involvement
A description of strategies used by early childhood professionals to understand and build partnerships with the families of the children they teach
Other
Parent and child references to letters during alphabet book reading: Relations to child age and letter name knowledge
A study of extra-textual references to letters while reading an alphabet book in a sample of 44 dyads of children ages 3 through 5 and their primary caregivers
Reports & Papers
Fathering: The role of men in raising children in Africa - Holding up the other half of the sky
A discussion of the social function of fatherhood in African societies, including an exploration of the benefits of increased paternal involvement to children’s development and well-being
Other
Afterschool: Supporting family involvement in schools
A discussion of the role that after school programs can play in increasing family involvement in schools
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Shared book reading: Parental goals across the primary grades and goal-behavior relationships in junior kindergarten
A study of changes in parental goals and behaviors regarding parent-child book reading from their children’s kindergarten year through third-grade, based on a survey of approximately 1,000 parents, and a study of the relationship between goals and behaviors of parents regarding book reading with their preschoolers in a sample of 150 parents
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Parental perceptions of music in storytelling sessions in a public library
A survey of the opinions of parents regarding the use of music during storytelling sessions at a public library
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Preschool-home cooperation in change
A study of several forms of cooperation between preschool teachers and parents, based on interviews with 26 preschool teachers and 32 parents from the middle part of Sweden
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Making the road as we go: Parents and professionals as partners managing diversity in early childhood education [Executive summary]
A summary of an overview and discussion of the Parents and Diversity project, an initiative in the Netherlands that promoted parent-child care provider partnerships and helped providers better understand the needs of immigrant parents
Executive Summary
Father involvement in early childhood programs: Review of the literature
An overview of select research on the factors associated with paternal involvement in programs for their young children and in fatherhood programs
Other
Making the road as we go: Parents and professionals as partners managing diversity in early childhood education
An overview and discussion of the Parents and Diversity project, an initiative in the Netherlands that promoted parent-child care provider partnerships and helped providers better understand the needs of immigrant parents
Other
A study of Classroom Literacy Interventions and Outcomes in Even Start: Executive summary
A summary of 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
Executive Summary
The relationship between maternal beliefs and behavior during shared reading
A study of the relationship between techniques used by mothers during shared reading sessions and maternal beliefs about the purpose of shared reading, and an examination of differences in the reading-related beliefs and practices of mothers of boys and girls, based on a sample of 50 mothers and their young children
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Relations among the frequency of shared reading and 4-year-old children’s vocabulary, morphological and syntax comprehension and narrative skills
A study of the relationship between shared storybook reading and select cognitive, literacy-related, and narrative abilities in a sample of 106 preschoolers
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A literacy program for fathers: A case study
A description of a program intended to enhance the fathers’ support of their children’s literacy
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