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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Understanding the impact of technical assistance on early care and education sites in Mississippi rural communities

Triplett, Kimberly Mechelle 02 May 2009 (has links)
The purpose of this study was to examine if early childhood teachers can enhance literacy and language development in preschool children and strengthen the literacy with the support of an on-site technical assistant (TA). The present investigation sought to explore two questions: Is there a statistically significant difference between classroom environments for which teaching early literacy skills, as measured by the Early Language and Literacy Classroom Observation Toolkit (ELLCO) Research Edition of three and four-year-olds participating in the on-site technical assistance model when compared to classroom environments in programs where early childhood teachers did not participate? and Is there a statistically significant difference in language scores of children in classrooms whose early childhood teachers participated in the technical assistance model as measured by the Preschool Language Scale-4th edition (PLS-4) as compared to children whose teachers did not participate? ANCOVA was used to assess differences in mean post-test scores (ELLCO and PLS-4) between treatment and comparison groups. Both the treatment and comparison groups’ pre-test scores were used as covariates. There was a statistically significant difference between the treatment and comparison groups of teachers as measured by the ELLCO.

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