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Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen; Burchinal, Margaret; Soliday Hong, Sandra; Yazejian, Noreen; Shelton-Ormond, Anna; Foster, Tiffany – FPG Child Development Institute, 2020
Pennsylvania Pre-K Counts (PA PKC) is a state-funded prekindergarten program for 3- and 4-year-old children to help them gain school readiness skills. The goal of PA PKC is to help reduce educational disparities by providing high quality prekindergarten for children who lack opportunities or reside in environments that place them at risk of school…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, School Readiness, Program Effectiveness, Equal Education
Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen; Soliday Hong, Sandra; Yazejian, Noreen; Zadrozny, Sabrina; Burchinal, Margaret – FPG Child Development Institute, 2020
Pennsylvania Pre-K Counts (PA PKC) is a state-funded prekindergarten program for 3- and 4- year-old children to help them gain school readiness skills. The goal of PA PKC is to help reduce educational disparities by providing high quality prekindergarten for children who lack opportunities or reside in environments that place them at risk of…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, School Readiness, Program Effectiveness, Equal Education
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Wu, Johnny; King, Kevin M.; Witkiewitz, Katie; Racz, Sarah Jensen; McMahon, Robert J. – Psychological Assessment, 2012
Research has shown that boys display higher levels of childhood conduct problems than girls, and Black children display higher levels than White children, but few studies have tested for scalar equivalence of conduct problems across gender and race. The authors conducted a 2-parameter item response theory (IRT) model to examine item…
Descriptors: Item Analysis, Test Bias, Test Items, Item Response Theory