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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Head Start Students"”.
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An Examination of the Strong Start Intervention to Support the Pro-Social Behaviors in At-Risk Head Start Students
… for at-risk preschool-aged children enrolled in Head Start programs. A single-case design was used, which included 3 children from a rural Head Start center in the southeast of the U.S. Additionally, systematic direct observations were used to measure behavior change. Results demonstrated that …
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Examination of Head Start students' and teachers' attitudes and behaviors toward trying new foods as part of a social marketing campaign
… before and after the intervention. Setting: Head Start classrooms throughout Virginia. Participants: 177 preschool Head Start teachers and 1534 children. Intervention(s): Food Friends, a twelve-week social marketing campaign, was conducted by Head Start teachers during the Spring 2007, …
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The Effects of Head Start on Cognitive Development
<p>The purpose of this study was to compare Head Start students with non-Head Start students in first grade to see if there were significant differences in cognitive achievement. A posttest only design was used, and a factorial analysis of variance was used as the statistical analysis at the .05 …
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Generalization of Teachers' Use of Effective Instruction Delivery Following In Situ Training
… of <em>in situ </em>training for increasing Head Start teachers’ use of effective instruction delivery in Head Start classrooms while evaluating concomitant increases in Head Start students’ compliance was examined in the current study. Of further interest was the extent to which Head Start …
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Exploration into the head start fade phenomenon
<p>The Head Start fade effect, documented since the 1970s, finds that students who make gains in I.Q. and social skills in the Head Start program later see those positive effects diminish in the early years of schooling and disappear altogether by the end of third grade. The hypothesis proposed in …
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Preschool discourse skill improvement with computer-assisted instruction
… instructors, could improve discourse skills in Head Start students over improvements obtained without enhanced instructor dialogue, and over improvements of ordinary classroom instruction. Additional information about modifying software or designing new software to improve discourse skills was …
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Maternal depression symptomology, stress, and behavioral outcomes in children: a one year longitudinal study
… longitudinal study examining the transition of Head Start students into elementary school. Families were selected from the transition study if their incomes were less than or equal to 200% of the poverty threshold in the spring of 1994, and if the informant was the mother at both Time 1 and Time …