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- Title
CSRP's Impact on Low-Income Preschoolers' Preacademic Skills: Self-Regulation as a Mediating Mechanism.
- Authors
Raver, C. Cybele; Jones, Stephanie M.; Li‐Grining, Christine; Zhai, Fuhua; Bub, Kristen; Pressler, Emily
- Abstract
Based on theoretically driven models, the Chicago School Readiness Project (CSRP) targeted low-income children's school readiness through the mediating mechanism of self-regulation. The CSRP is a multicomponent, cluster-randomized efficacy trial implemented in 35 Head Start-funded classrooms ( N = 602 children). The analyses confirm that the CSRP improved low-income children's self-regulation skills (as indexed by attention/impulse control and executive function) from fall to spring of the Head Start year. Analyses also suggest significant benefits of CSRP for children's preacademic skills, as measured by vocabulary, letter-naming, and math skills. Partial support was found for improvement in children's self-regulation as a hypothesized mediator for children's gains in academic readiness. Implications for programs and policies that support young children's behavioral health and academic success are discussed.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PRESCHOOL education; SERVICES for preschool children; READINESS for school research; DEVELOPMENTAL programs; HEAD Start programs; TRAINING
- Publication
Child Development, 2011, Vol 82, Issue 1, p362
- ISSN
0009-3920
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01561.x