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Impacts of a Prekindergarten Program on Children's Mathematics, Language, Literacy, Executive Function, and Emotional Skills
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Examination of the impact of a prekindergarten program that implemented a coaching system and consistent literacy, language, and mathematics curricula on these and other nontargeted, essential components of school readiness, such as executive functioning indicated that it had moderate-to-large impacts on children's language, literacy, numeracy and mathematics skills.Abstract:
Publicly funded prekindergarten programs have achieved small-to-large impacts on children's cognitive outcomes. The current study examined the impact of a prekindergarten program that implemented a coaching system and consistent literacy, language, and mathematics curricula on these and other nontargeted, essential components of school readiness, such as executive functioning. Participants included 2,018 four and five-year-old children. Findings indicated that the program had moderate-to-large impacts on children's language, literacy, numeracy and mathematics skills, and small impacts on children's executive functioning and a measure of emotion recognition. Some impacts were considerably larger for some subgroups. For urban public school districts, results inform important programmatic decisions. For policy makers, results confirm that prekindergarten programs can improve educationally vital outcomes for children in meaningful, important ways.read more
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Investing in Preschool Programs
TL;DR: The available evidence on the extent to which expenditures on early childhood education programs constitute worthy social investments in the human capital of children is summarized, and different models of human development used by social scientists are described and examined.
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Investing in Our Future: The Evidence Base on Preschool Education
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Megan M. McClelland,Claire Cameron,Robert J. Duncan,Ryan P. Bowles,Alan C. Acock,Alicia Miao,Megan E. Pratt +6 more
TL;DR: Assessment of psychometric properties of a measure of behavioral self-regulation called the Head-Toes-Knees-Shoulders (HTKS) by assessing construct validity, including relations to EF measures, and predictive validity to academic achievement growth between prekindergarten and kindergarten demonstrates that the HTKS involves cognitive flexibility, working memory, and inhibitory control, and is substantively implicated in early achievement.
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Predictors of early growth in academic achievement: the head-toes-knees-shoulders task
Megan M. McClelland,Claire Cameron,Robert J. Duncan,Ryan P. Bowles,Alan C. Acock,Alicia Miao,Megan E. Pratt +6 more
TL;DR: This paper examined the psychometric properties of a measure of behavioral self-regulation called the Head-Toes-Knees-Shoulders (HTKS) by assessing construct validity, including relations to EF measures, and predictive validity to academic achievement growth between pre-kindergarten and kindergarten.
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Closing the achievement gap through modification of neurocognitive and neuroendocrine function: results from a cluster randomized controlled trial of an innovative approach to the education of children in kindergarten.
Clancy Blair,C. Cybele Raver +1 more
TL;DR: Results demonstrated improvements in reading, vocabulary, and mathematics at the end of kindergarten that increased into the first grade, suggesting that a focus on executive functions and associated aspects of self-regulation in early elementary education holds promise for closing the achievement gap.
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