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Impacts of the Chicago School Readiness Project on Measures of Achievement, Cognitive Functioning, and Behavioral Regulation in Late Adolescence
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Tyler W. Watts; Chen Li; Xinyu S. Pan; Jill Gandhi; Dana C. McCoy; C. Cybele Raver – Developmental Psychology, 2023
The current paper reports long-term impacts of the Chicago School Readiness Project (CSRP) on measures of achievement, cognitive functioning, and behavioral regulation taken toward the end of students' high school careers. The CSRP was a self-regulation-focused early childhood intervention implemented in Head Start centers serving high-poverty…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Program Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes
Can Small Changes Matter? Reducing Cognitive Load in Educational Media Supports Low-Income Preschoolers' Vocabulary Learning
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Samudra, Preeti G.; Wong, Kevin M.; Neuman, Susan B. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
Preschoolers can learn vocabulary from educational videos, but children from low-income backgrounds often do not learn as effectively as their higher income peers. We investigated whether adding attention-directing cues to media (Study 1) and slowing the pacing of media (Study 2) supported vocabulary learning for preschoolers from low-income…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Cues, Attention, Vocabulary Development