A Whole-Child Perspective on Head Start Reform: Findings on Children's Cognitive and Socio-Emotional Development from FACES 2000

Zill, Nicholas; Resnick, Gary; Sorongon, Alberto; McKey, Ruth Hubbell; Pai-Samant, Shefali; O’Brien, Robert W.; D’Elio, Mary Ann; Vaden-Kiernan, Michael; Tarullo, Louisa

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“…The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT; Dunn & Dunn 1981), a test of receptive vocabulary, has also occasionally been mentioned as a measure of school readiness (e.g., Kohen, Brooks-Gunn, Leventhal, & Hertzman, 2002;Zill et al, 2001); however, it is rarely used as a sole screening method (Costenbader et al, 2000). Within its limited skill testing range, the PPVT has adequate psychometric properties for screening purposes (Dunn & Dunn, 1981), and is easy and quick to administer.…”

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Development and psychometric properties of the Early Development Instrument (EDI): A measure of children's school readiness.

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Offord

2007

Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science / Revue canadienne des

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The Early Development Instrument (EDI), a teacher-completed measure of children's school readiness at entry to Grade 1, was designed to provide communities with an informative, inexpensive and psychometrically sound tool to assess outcomes of early development as reflected in children's school readiness. Its psychometric properties at individual level were evaluated in two studies. Five a priori domains -physical health and well-being, social competence, emotional maturity, language and communication, and cognitive development and general knowledge -were tested in a factor analysis of data on over 16,000 kindergarten children. The factor analyses upheld the first three domains, but revealed the need to develop two new ones, resulting in the final version of the EDI consisting of: physical health and well-being, social competence, emotional maturity, language and cognitive development, communication skills and general knowledge domains. These final domains showed good reliability levels, comparable with other instruments. A separate study (N = 82) demonstrated consistent agreements in parent-teacher, interrater reliabilities, concurrent validity, and convergent validity. These results establish the EDI as a psychometrically adequate indicator of child well-being at school entry.

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Development and psychometric properties of the Early Development Instrument (EDI): A measure of children's school readiness.

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Offord

2007

Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science / Revue canadienne des

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“…Head Start programs have developed five objectives that are deemed critical to the success of children and their families as a part of the program. These objectives include enhancing children's growth and development; strengthening families to be the primary nurturers for their children; providing children with educational, health, and nutrition services; linking families to needed community services; and ensuring parents are involved in decision-making regarding their children (Zill et al, 2001). Thus, Head Start programs are not designed to be confined to just educators engaging with children during the day but to have a holistic positive impact the overall health and welfare of children and their families.…”

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“…Learning new words is an important aspect of early childhood development and has lasting implications, as vocabulary knowledge of young children has been shown to predict later literacy skills (Ouellette, 2006;Quinn et al, 2015). Thus, ensuring all young children have access to language and literacy-rich environments with "dynamic communicative interactions" is critical (Kan et al, 2020(Kan et al, , p. 1007.Although equitable access to quality childcare and early learning opportunities are currently not available to all families in the United States, federal programs such as Head Start provide positive preschool programming and family support for qualifying children and their families living at or below the national poverty line (Zill et al, 2001;Zill & Resnick, 2006). These programs include quality curricular activities to enhance a child's overall development while also encouraging learning opportunities in the home environment.…”

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“…Although equitable access to quality childcare and early learning opportunities are currently not available to all families in the United States, federal programs such as Head Start provide positive preschool programming and family support for qualifying children and their families living at or below the national poverty line (Zill et al, 2001; Zill & Resnick, 2006). These programs include quality curricular activities to enhance a child’s overall development while also encouraging learning opportunities in the home environment.…”

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Examination of Factors That Predict Receptive Vocabulary Knowledge of Children Who Attend Head Start Programs

Bowers

Robinson

Metcalf

2023

Communication Disorders Quarterly

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Income-based childcare programs provide children access to developmentally appropriate and vocabulary-rich literacy experiences. For this study, participating Head Start Centers requested families complete a weekly home literacy log to encourage vocabulary-rich shared book reading activities in the home. Using participant characteristics, including literacy log competition, this study examined which factors adequately predicted vocabulary growth as measured by Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test–Fourth Edition standard scores. Results indicated that vocabulary increased significantly for children who were enrolled in participating Head Start Pre-Kindergarten (Pre-K) programs. Important predictors of the magnitude of vocabulary growth during an academic year included sex, language(s) spoken in the home, and completion of home literacy logs. Clinical implications of this study would warrant recommending home literacy logs as a component of holistic Head Start programming, as completion of literacy logs emerged as an important variable in predicting the magnitude of vocabulary growth second only to race and sex.

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“…In answer to the GAO report, a consortium of research organizations has been contracted to conduct a random-assignment national impact evaluation of Head Start. In addition, the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey has been implemented to assess program process and outcomes in a less rigorous design (Zill et al, 2001; see Whitehurst & Massetti, in press, for a critique of the evaluation).…”

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Research, policy, and the federal role in prevention initiatives for children.

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Zigler

2003

American Psychologist

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With the ability and the funds to implement programs on a national level, federal policy is a potentially potent tool in primary prevention. Despite the U.S. government's history of ambivalence toward intervening in child rearing and limited national support for primary prevention, several initiatives have been implemented for children and families with some measure of success. The successes, however, are mitigated by limitations of the initiatives themselves and by the inconclusive nature of much of the evaluation data. This review of 5 federal policy-based initiatives for children and families provides the backdrop for discussing aspects of federal prevention program design, implementation, policy, and research.

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A Whole-Child Perspective on Head Start Reform: Findings on Children's Cognitive and Socio-Emotional Development from FACES 2000

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Development and psychometric properties of the Early Development Instrument (EDI): A measure of children's school readiness.

Development and psychometric properties of the Early Development Instrument (EDI): A measure of children's school readiness.

Examination of Factors That Predict Receptive Vocabulary Knowledge of Children Who Attend Head Start Programs

Research, policy, and the federal role in prevention initiatives for children.

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