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Children's School Readiness Skills across the Pre-K Year: Associations with Teacher-Student Interactions, Teacher Practices, and Exposure to Academic Content
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Pianta, Robert C.; Whittaker, Jessica V.; Vitiello, Virginia; Ruzek, Erik; Ansari, Arya; Hofkens, Tara; DeCoster, Jamie – Grantee Submission, 2020
The present study reports associations between features of directly observed classroom processes and school readiness skills across the academic year for 1498 children enrolled in publicly funded pre-K programs in a large and diverse county. In models adjusting for a range of child and family covariates, evidence was detected for the separate, and…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Preschool Children, Public Schools, Preschool Education
Persistence and Convergence: The End of Kindergarten Outcomes of Pre-K Graduates and Their Non-Attending Peers
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Ansari, Arya; Pianta, Robert C.; Whittaker, Jessica V.; Vitiello, Virginia E.; Ruzek, Erik A. – Grantee Submission, 2020
The present investigation examined the benefits of pre-K through the end of kindergarten for children from low-income homes who lived in a large and diverse county (n = 2,581) as well as factors associated with a reduction in benefits during the kindergarten year. Results revealed that pre-K graduates outperformed non-attenders in the areas of…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Program Effectiveness, Low Income Students, Kindergarten