Author: Erika Gaylor
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Associations of teacher characteristics with preschool suspensions and expulsions: Implications for supports
Preschool children subjected to suspension and expulsion miss valuable educational opportunities and are more likely to experience academic failure and grade retention. These forms of exclusionary discipline are more frequent in preschool settings than in K–12 education classrooms.
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Innovations in Early Mathematics: Final Report
SRI evaluated the impact of teachers’ participation in a 2-year professional development (PD) intervention to improve teachers’ knowledge, attitudes, and instructional practice in math across prekindergarten (preK) to third grade classrooms in the city of Chicago.
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Virginia Preschool Initiative Plus (VPI+) Final Evaluation Report
The Virginia Preschool Initiative Plus was designed to provide 4-year-old children from low-income families with access to high quality prekindergarten programs.
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Who gets what? Describing the non‐supervisory training and supports received by home visiting staff members and its relationship with turnover
The early childhood home visiting field lacks a basic understanding of home visiting program staff members’ receipt of on-the-job training from experts outside of their programs who are not their immediate colleagues or supervisors.
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Chicago’s Pay for Success Program Evaluation: Year 3
For each year of the program, SRI International, the program’s independent evaluator, releases a report of student performance across kindergarten readiness, special education utilization, and third-grade literacy.
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Independent Evaluation of the Midwest CPC Expansion Project: Final Report
SRI conducted an independent evaluation of the Midwest Expansion of the Child-Parent Center (CPC) Program using a quasi-experimental design.
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Toddler naps in child care: Associations with demographics and developmental outcomes
The objectives were to characterize the rate, duration, and factors associated with napping in a large, nationally representative sample of toddlers attending child care.
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Early childhood language interventions: An illustration of the model demonstration process
This project brief summarizes the characteristics, implementation experiences, and outcomes achieved by one of OSEP’s investments in model demonstration activities—a cohort of three grantees that demonstrated various approaches to implementing early childhood language interventions that targeted children with significant language disorders or delays and who were eligible for early intervention services.
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Illinois Preschool for All (PFA) evaluation
This fact sheet summarizes findings from the Illinois Preschool for All (PFA) program evaluation conducted by Erikson Institute and SRI International.
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Attention and Hyperactivity Symptoms at Kindergarten Entry Associated with Less Sleep in Preschool
To assess the association between sleep and attention and hyperactivity symptoms in preschool children.