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Abel, Alyson D.; Schuele, C. Melanie; Arndt, Karen Barako; Lee, Marvin W.; Blankenship, Kathryn Guillot – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2017
The purpose of this study was (a) to describe the performance of preschool children from families with college-educated mothers on two norm-referenced measures, the Preschool Language Scale-4 (PLS-4) and Peabody Picture Vocabulary Tests-III (PPVT-III), and (b) to compare the findings with Qi and colleagues who reported PLS and PPVT scores for…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Background, Educational Attainment, Preschool Children
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Weikart, David P. – Journal of Special Education, 2016
In recent years, more than 700,000 children aged 3 through 5 years identified with speech or language impairments (44%), developmental delay (37%), autism (9%), and other disabilities (10%) received federally supported special education services. For our republished article in the inaugural issue of the 50th anniversary volume, we have selected a…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Disadvantaged, Evidence Based Practice
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Hofer, Kerry G. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2014
This paper presents evidence on the amount of classroom variation in gains across various domains of achievement within the Tennessee Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten (TN-VPK) program; the data are taken from the randomized control trial (RCT) design of the TN-VPK evaluation. This study explores areas where those differences are largest, and offers…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Achievement Gains, Randomized Controlled Trials