ERIC Number: ED514147
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2010
Pages: 9
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Three Year Cumulative Impacts of the 4Rs Program on Children's Social-Emotional, Behavioral, and Academic Outcomes
Jones, Stephanie M.; Brown, Joshua L.; Aber, J. Lawrence
Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness
Over the last two decades, developmental science has made significant progress in understanding children's trajectories toward social-emotional and academic outcomes. At the same time, there has been dramatic growth in the design, implementation, and rigorous evaluation of school-based interventions to promote positive social-emotional development and/or academic achievement. The present study contributes to ongoing scholarship in the school-based prevention of social-emotional, behavioral, and academic problems by reporting three-year longitudinal, experimental impacts of a novel social-emotional learning and literacy development intervention (the 4Rs Program, "Reading, Writing, Respect and Resolution") on a cohort of 3rd grade children's social-emotional, behavioral, and academic functioning after three consecutive years of exposure to the intervention. The findings to date on the impacts of an integrated, social-emotional and literacy program provides clear evidence that this universal intervention has both broad impacts on social-cognitive processes and behaviors in the social-emotional domain, and targeted impacts in the academic domain. This study provides good evidence that universal school-based interventions, delivered to whole populations of children, can result in substantial impacts on children's developmental health and well-being. (Contains 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Intervention, Prevention, Grade 3, Literacy, Cognitive Processes, Emotional Development, Longitudinal Studies, Social Development, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Urban Schools, Academic Achievement, Outcomes of Education, Program Effectiveness, Case Studies, Quasiexperimental Design
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Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Elementary Secondary Education; Grade 3; Grade 4; Grade 5
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE)
Identifiers - Location: New York
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