Bradley Hasbro Children's Research Center
Enhanced Head Start MAP Intervention: Linking Program Evaluation
and Child Outcomes
Principal Investigator
Susan Dickstein, PhD
Funding Source
Administration on Children and Families, Head Start
Bureau
Description
Program evaluation within a system of service delivery requires
specification of methods for assessing and tracking child developmental
outcomes, as well as for training evaluators. We consider effective
program evaluation to be a central mechanism by which improvement
in child outcomes and early learning environments of children is
not only tracked but also influenced. This project is an intervention
designed to enhance Head Start teachers' ability to use a classroom-based
system of tracking and monitoring child developmental progress in
order to create optimal early childhood learning environments in
their classrooms.
The intervention targets teachers' ability to:
- enhance child developmental performance
- individualize curricula and
- maintain optimal classroom learning environments.
Significance
This research will yield information about child progress in the
Head Start preschool setting, and will inform policy decisions for
best practices in Head Start regarding child developmental outcomes
associated with school readiness.
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