Improving vocabulary and pre-literacy skills of at-risk preschoolers through teacher professional development

Description:

A study of the effect of teacher participation in Exceptional Coaching for Early Language and Literacy (ExCELL) training on language- and preliteracy-related measures as well as the quality of both teacher-child interaction and classrooms, based on an experiment with 30 teachers in 1 control- and 2 experimental-group Head Start systems serving African American children

Resource Type:

Reports & Papers

Author(s):

Wasik Barbara A.; Hindman Annemarie H.

Funder(s):

United States. Department of Education

Country:

United States

Date Issued:

May, 2011

Journal Title:

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volume Number:

103

Issue Number:

Page Range:

455-469

Topics:

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

11. Child Care & Early Education Quality

1. Children & Child Development > 1.2. Child Development & School Readiness

ISSN:

1939-2176

Online

0022-0663

Paper

Peer Reviewed:

Yes

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