Head Start Classroom-based Approaches and Resources for Emotion and Social Skill Promotion (Head Start CARES)
Overview
- Phase
- N/A
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Teacher Practice
- Sponsor
- MDRC
- Enrollment
- 2670
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Teacher Practice: Adapted Teaching Style Rating Scale (TSRS)
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 11 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
The purpose of this study was to deepen the evidence base for interventions that support the social-emotional skills that underlie children's engagement and attention to learning tasks by schools (learning behaviors) and their social interactions with teachers and peers (social behaviors). The study tested three theoretically-distinct approaches to enhancing children's social-emotional development, along with a comprehensive coaching and training model, on a large scale within the Head Start system.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Grantees had to have at least 4 centers with a similar racial/ethnic composition
- •An equal number of classrooms with full-day or part-day programs
- •And a similar mix of four-year-old-only and mixed-age (three-and four-year-old) classrooms.
- •Children had to speak English and Spanish.
Exclusion Criteria
- •A grantee was excluded from the sample if it: only ran early Head Start programs
- •Only served migrant children
- •Was located in a U.S. territory
- •Only or mostly provided family child care or home services
- •Was more than 100 miles from a "primary airport,"
- •Operated fewer than 4 centers with two classrooms each
- •Had been in operation for less than 2 years
- •Was not in compliance with Head Start Standards
- •They were already systematically implementing a social-emotional curriculum or participating in another evaluation study.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Teacher Practice: Adapted Teaching Style Rating Scale (TSRS)
Time Frame: 0 to 12 months
Class-level outcome
Classroom Climate: Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS)
Time Frame: 0 to 12 months
Class-level outcome
Executive Function: Head-to-Toes
Time Frame: 0 to 12 months
Child-level outcome
Executive Function: Pencil Tap
Time Frame: 0 to 12 months
Child-level outcome
Social Problem-Solving: Challenging Situations Task
Time Frame: 0 to 12 months
Child-level outocme
Emotion Knowledge: Emotion Situations and Identification Tasks
Time Frame: 0 to 12 months
Child-level outcome
Pre-Academic Skills: Academic Rating Scale
Time Frame: 0 to 12 months
Child-level Outcome
Pre-Academic Skills: Expressive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test
Time Frame: 0 to 12 months
Child-level outcome
Pre-Academic Skills: Woodcock-Johnson III
Time Frame: 0 to 12 months
Child-level outcome
Behavior Regulation: Behavior Problems Index
Time Frame: 0 to 12 months
Child-level outcome
Social Behaviors: Social Social Skills Rating Scale
Time Frame: 0 to 12 months
Child-level outcome
Social Behaviors: Cooper-Farran Behavioral Rating Scale- Interpersonal Skills
Time Frame: 0 to 12 months
Child-level outcome
Learning Behaviors: Cooper-Farran Behavioral Rating Scale- Work-Related Skills
Time Frame: 0 to 12 months
Child-level outcome