This paper explores the differences in how young children respond to three different types of sample survey response icons. The purpose of the project was to determine if using different types of response icons would result in greater levels of discrimination by children in kindergarten through third grade. The setting was a summer enrichment…

This practicum addressed the issues of declining enrollment and the anticipated problems resulting from the loss of a kindergarten program in an early childhood center. (Enrollment is expected to decline as the public schools moved to all-day kindergarten.) Goals of the practicum were to increase enrollment in the early childhood center, expand…

This study drew on data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 to examine whether children made gains in general knowledge over the summer following their first year of kindergarten, whether general knowledge gains were similar for all children, and whether participation in certain types of summer activities…

This Issue Brief provides a description of children?s participation in various activities during the summer after kindergarten. Children?s participation in activities is compared across a measure of SES. This Brief also takes a closer look at one summer activity in particular?children?s library use. The Issue Brief draws on data from the Early…

THIS STUDY COVERED A PERIOD OF 8 WEEKS AND 14 SESSIONS. AN EXPERIMENTAL GROUP OF 29 5-YEAR-OLDS WAS TAUGHT BY AN EXPERIENCED EARLY CHILDHOOD AND ART EDUCATION TEACHER. A CONTROL GROUP OF 26 5-YEAR-OLDS WAS USED ONLY FOR MEASUREMENT OF NORMAL GROWTH DURING A BEGINNING AND A FINAL SESSION. THE PURPOSE OF THE STUDY WAS TO INCREASE MEANINGFUL LANGUAGE…

The Southwest Regional Laboratory (SWRL) has developed and initially field tested during summer 1969 a Summer Reading Program (SRP) designed to prevent the decrement in kindergarten children's academic achievement caused by the lack of instruction and practice during the summer. Each parent supervised his child at home in structured reading…

A summer program conducted in two schools involved 154 nursery school and kindergarten children. Eligibility was determined by economic criteria, ability to attend the full 5-week program, and probability of benefit from the program. Pupil-teacher ratios were generally 9 to 1; part-time psychological and speech services and a nurse were also…

In an attempt to lessen academic failure during the early years of schooling, 23 middle class kindergarten children who scored low on tests of cognitive development were given a special 6-week summer enrichment program. A control group of 23 low scorers received no enrichment program. Parents of the experimental subjects were invited to visit the…

An early childhood resource teacher implemented a practicum intervention designed to improve the school attendance of at-risk kindergartners and first and second graders in a low-income, inner-city area in central Florida. The intervention involved the transformation of self-contained, graded classrooms into primary units comprised of multi-age…

The primary aim of this applied research project is to develop a curriculum package which can be replicated to prevent behavioral disorders that are learned, for all children in kindergarten through third grade. More specific objectives are to: substitute effective for ineffective behavior; increase the child's ability to function happily and well…