A Randomized Trial Study of a Preschool Literacy Curriculum: The Importance of Implementation

Davidson, Marcia; Fields, Matthew K.; Yang, Jiaxiu

doi:10.1080/19345740902770028

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“…In addition to training and support, implementation fidelity can also have an impact on the success of an intervention. Research shows that high fidelity of implementation can significantly increase the potential effectiveness of literacy programs (Davidson, Fields, & Yang, 2009). Also important to note is that training and support, and implementation fidelity are closely linked and that the more training and support that is offered the higher implementation fidelity is likely to be.…”

Section: Possible Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Examining the effectiveness of technology use in classrooms: A tertiary meta-analysis

Archer

Savage

Sanghera-Sidhu

et al. 2014

Computers & Education

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Identifying effective literacy instruction programs has been a focal point for governments, educators and parents over the last few decades (Ontario Ministry of Education, 2004Education, , 2006 Council of Ontario Directors of Education, 2011). Given the increasing use of computer technologies in the classroom and in the home, a variety of information communication technology (ICT) interventions for learning have been introduced. Meta-analyses comparing the impact of these programs on learning, however, have yielded inconsistent findings ). The present tertiary meta-analytic review reassesses outcomes presented in three previous meta-analyses, while taking into account instructional variables, specifically training and support, and implementation fidelity, which can significantly impact learning outcomes. When training and support were entered as a moderator variable the traditional small overall effectiveness of the ICTs (ES= 0.18) increased significantly (ES = .57). These findings indicate the importance of including implementation factors such as training and support, when considering the relative effectiveness of l ICT interventions.

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Section: Possible Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Examining the effectiveness of technology use in classrooms: A tertiary meta-analysis

Archer

Savage

Sanghera-Sidhu

et al. 2014

Computers & Education

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“…The primary limitation to preschools' effectiveness is an inability to effectively integrate new curriculum materials with the skills of current teachers (Davidson et al, 2009). Therefore, scholars have emphasized the use of professional support systems to facilitate the integration of effective materials and teaching skills (Klute, 2012;Penuel et al, 2012).…”

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Teaching Practices: Integrating Positive Thinking in Picture Book Creation for Economically Disadvantaged Children

Huang

Cheng

Teng³

2020

PEC

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The present study created picture books featuring elements of hope theory and conducted a practical teaching program to explore the application of hopeful thinking picture books for economically disadvantaged children, specifically, to understand the teachers’ teaching practices of picture book creation. On the basis of hope theory, the current study employed economic disadvantage as the creative background for designing picture books that incorporate elements of hopeful thinking and developed a teaching plan based on the picture books. The results indicated that the picture books had a solid theoretical foundation of hope, and were relevant to preschool children’s real experiences and development. Through teachers’ storytelling and discussion of the story content, children could express ideas based on their own experiences, set specific goals, and devised feasible methods for handling adversity to achieve goals. Therefore, the picture books were considered suitable for classroom teaching. In addition, expert teachers serving as coaches conducted classroom observations and teaching evaluations to explore how effectively positive thinking was integrated into the picture books and teaching activities, and to assess the guidance of children in using positive thinking strategies during story discussion. Through professional assessment, feedback, and teacher self-reflection, hope theory can be effectively applied for picture book creation. The picture book The Piggy’s Home created in this study can help teachers guide economically disadvantaged children in thinking positively, and teachers can refine the guidance process. Keywords: case study, economically disadvantaged children, hope theory, picture books, preschool children

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“…In contexts where study participants are nested (e.g., students within classrooms or groups), multilevel modeling approaches assess the extent to which fidelity (as one source of between-teacher variation) explains variation in student outcomes (e.g., Odom et al, 2010; Zvoch, 2012). Within the context of experimental designs, replacing the causal variable, or “intent to treat” (a dichotomous variable representing the treatment or control group as randomized), with a fidelity index score computed for each group estimates the effects of “treatment on the treated,” as recommended by Cook (2005; e.g., Davidson, Fields, & Yang, 2009; Justice, Mashburn, Pence, & Wiggins, 2008; T. Smith et al, 2013).…”

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Implementation Research

Century

Cassata

2016

Review of Research in Education

126

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Over many decades, educators have developed countless interventions and theories about how to create lasting change. Implementation research is the study of these efforts with a set of basic questions: What are we doing? Is it working? For whom? Where? When? How? And, Why? In other words, implementation research is an endeavor to understand if and how educational efforts are accomplishing their goals. This chapter describes the landscape of implementation research, tracing it back to its historical roots and connecting it to other fields with the aim of identifying common threads across diverse efforts. The authors survey where the field is today and highlight different perspectives on complex questions that have long troubled researchers. They outline some of the sticky issues ahead and make a case for shared conceptual clarity and clearly communicated and understood language that will help researchers understand how various bodies of implementation research work are related. The authors conclude by describing the opportunity presented to the education research community in this moment: to capitalize on and learn from historical and contemporary work in education and other fields, and to identify connections across theories and approaches and find ways to collectively move forward toward the shared goal of making education better.

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A Randomized Trial Study of a Preschool Literacy Curriculum: The Importance of Implementation

Cited by 23 publications

References 25 publications

Examining the effectiveness of technology use in classrooms: A tertiary meta-analysis

Examining the effectiveness of technology use in classrooms: A tertiary meta-analysis

Teaching Practices: Integrating Positive Thinking in Picture Book Creation for Economically Disadvantaged Children

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