ERIC Number: EJ937490
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004
Pages: 19
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ISSN: ISSN-1524-0754
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Early Home Intervention to Promote School Readiness: A Turkish Experience
Bekman, Sevda
NHSA Dialog, v7 n1 p16-34 2004
The paper presents the results of an evaluation research that studied the impact of a nationwide home intervention program, the Mother-Child Education Program, on both children and mothers immediately after the termination of the program and at the end of the children's first year of formal schooling. A pre/post control group quasiexperimental design was used. There were 102 experimental and 115 control mother-child pairs, the total sample being 217. The results revealed that the Program has important effects on the cognitive development of the child as reflected in the significant increase in the performance of the group receiving training with respect to preliteracy and prenumeracy skills. When the children were followed in their first year of schooling, the experimental children were found to be better at in literacy and numeracy skills and had started to read earlier than the control group. Furthermore, their end-of-year grades were better than their counterparts. Teachers also perceived them as meeting the cognitive and social requirements of the school and being more curious, attentive, and creative. (Contains 1 table and 1 footnote.)
Descriptors: Control Groups, Quasiexperimental Design, School Readiness, Early Intervention, Mothers, Numeracy, Cognitive Development, Foreign Countries, Program Effectiveness, Home Programs, Pretests Posttests, Young Children, Child Development, Emergent Literacy, Reading Skills, Mathematics Skills, Grades (Scholastic), Enrichment Activities, Emotional Development, Social Development
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Grade 1
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Turkey
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