Ready to Learn workshop participation: Short-term impacts: Final report [Executive summary]

Description:

A summary of an experimental, random assignment component of the comprehensive evaluation of Ready to Learn--a program in which Public Broadcasting Service member stations broadcast a mandated number of hours of children's programming and coordinators at each station engage in outreach activities (including parent and early childhood educator workshops) to facilitate the use of this programming as an educational tool--that focused on the short-term impacts of outreach activities on parents' and early childhood educators' behaviors, based on comparing assessments of workshop participants and nonparticipants

Resource Type:

Executive Summary

Author(s):

Johnson Amy W.; Vogel Cheri; Boller Kimberly; Uhl Stacey

Publisher(s):

Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)

Funder(s):

United States. Department of Education

Date Issued:

23 December, 2003

Source:

Alexandria, VA: Public Broadcasting Service. (No longer accessible as of September 18, 2013).

Note:

The project director is Charlotte Brantley. This resource was prepared by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. The project officers are Kimberley Boller and Amy Johnson

Topics:

5. Child Care & Early Education Provider Workforce > 5.3. Training, Mentoring, & Apprenticeships

2. Parents & Families > 2.3. Involvement in Child Care & Early Education > 2.3.3. Parent-Child

11. Child Care & Early Education Quality > 11.1. Process Quality

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