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Learning through Inquiry: Examining the Relationship between Child-Generated Questions, Teacher Practices, and School Readiness in Head Start Classrooms

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The proposed study will assess child-generated inquiry as well as teacher practices that encourage inquiry. Specific aims of the project are to: 1) assess child-generated inquiry over the course of the school year; 2) examine whether inquiry skills at the beginning of the school year predict gains in mathematics, vocabulary, listening comprehension, and science knowledge over the course of the year; and 3) assess the moderating role of teacher's levels of emotional support and instructional support on gains in inquiry skills and on the relationship between inquiry skills and mathematics, vocabulary, listening comprehension and science knowledge. Using multilevel modeling, the proposed project will be the first to examine child-generated inquiry in a sample of children enrolled in Head Start. Expected outcome is a contribution to the understanding of this domain-general skill, its development over the course of the school year, and its relationship with academic outcomes.
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Administration for Children and Families/OPRE Projects
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