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ED156756 UD018379
Title: The
Ypsilanti Preschool Curriculum Demonstration Project: Preschool
Years and Longitudinal Results. Monograph Number 4.
Author(s): Weikart, D.P.; And Others
Author Affiliation: High/Scope Educational Research Foundation,
Ypsilanti, MI.(BBB04423)
Pages: 163
Publication Date: 1978
Notes: For related documents, see ED 016 740, ED 022 531, ED 046
503, ED 077 560, UD 018 378 and UD 018 380
Available from: Document Not Available from EDRS.
Availability: High/Scope Foundation, Monograph Series, 600 North
River Street, Ypsilanti, Michigan 48197 ($8.00)
Document Type: Reports--Descriptive (141)
Journal Announcement: RIENOV1978
The Ypsilanti
Curriculum Demonstration Project (CDP) was designed to address the
question of whether some approaches to compensatory preschool education
for economically disadvantaged children were more effective than
others under controlled experimental conditions. The CDP examined
the effects of three preschool curriculum models on children's cognitive,
linguistic, socioemotional and academic skills development while
holding noncurriculum factors as constant as possible across the
programs being compared. Measurement of the development of these
various skills focused on both concurrent gains and longitudinal
assessment during elementary school. Each of the three curricula
selected for comparison in the CDP represented one of the following
approaches: (1) the language training curriculum; (2) the cognitively
oriented curriculum; and (3) the unit-based curriculum. Families
included in the sample lived within Ypsilanti public school attendance
areas, were of low income, and had three year old children who scored
below average on the Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale. Findings
indicated no significant differences between children in the three
programs on cognitive measures administered during the first five
years of elementary school. The three programs were equally effective
through fourth grade for children with varying entry characteristics.
Assessment measures are described in the appendices. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement; Cognitive Development; Comparative
Analysis; Compensatory Education; *Early Childhood Education; Economically
Disadvantaged; Elementary Education; Language Acquisition; *Longitudinal
Studies; Low Achievement; *Models; *Preschool Curriculum; *Preschool
Education; Social Development
Identifiers: *Michigan (Ypsilanti)
