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Peer reviewedSarkin, Andrew J.; Tally, Steven R.; Cronan, Terry A.; Matt, Georg E.; Lyons, Heather W. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1997
A strategy proposed by T. Cook and D. Campbell (1979) was used to investigate attrition in a community-based literacy program, focusing on 287 Head Start families. Data revealed interactions among intervention program-centered characteristics and person-centered characteristics that have implications for study validity and generalizability.…
Descriptors: Attrition (Research Studies), Community Programs, Dropouts, Generalization
Peer reviewedCronan, Terry A.; Walen, Heather R. – Reading Research and Instruction, 1995
Describes recruitment strategies, roles, and training of participating college students, and barriers to implementation of Project PRIMER (PRoducing Infant/Mother Ethnic Readers). Notes that 147 low-income families participated, that parents engaged in the targeted behaviors, and that children in the high-intervention program showed improvements…
Descriptors: Community Education, Community Programs, Early Childhood Education, Low Income
