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ED395691 PS024258
Title: The Effects of Full-Day Kindergarten on Student Achievement and Affect.
Author(s): Hough, David; Bryde, Suzanne
Pages: 16
Publication Date: April 1996
Notes: Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (New York, NY, April 8-12, 1996).
Available from: EDRS Price MF01/PC01 Plus Postage.
Language: English
Document Type: Reports--Research (143); Speeches/meeting papers (150)
Geographic Source: U.S.; Missouri
Journal Announcement: RIEOCT1996
A quasi-experimental
study explored the ways in which the full-day kindergarten program
is beneficial and/or detrimental to students compared to the half-day
and/or
extended-day program. The sample consisted of six full-day schools
matched with half-day schools on geographic location, school size,
student norm-referenced data, and socioeconomic status of patrons.
Data were collected by means of classroom observations; video- and
audiotaped interviews of students, teachers, and parents;
report cards of all students included in the sample; survey questionnaires
administered to parents and teachers; and a norm-referenced achievement
test administered to all students. The findings revealed the following:
(1) greater utilization of small group activities by the full-day
programs; (2) no significant difference in the amount of fatigue
experienced by full-day and half-day students; (3) greater number
of social interactions was experienced by full-day students; (4)
full-day students outperformed half-day students on the majority
of the Language Arts criteria and a few of the criteria used to
measure mathematics skills; (5) full-day students outperformed half-day
students on every criterion measured by norm-referenced achievement
test; (6) overall satisfaction was higher for parents of children
attending full-day and extended day programs (they believed that
their children had a better chance for success in first grade over
the half-day students); and (7) school attendance of full-day students
was more regular than for other students. (BA)
Descriptors: *Academic Achievement; *Achievement Tests; Attendance
Patterns; Classroom Research; Comparative Analysis; *Extended School
Day; Fatigue (Biology); *Full Day Half Day Schedules; *Kindergarten
Children; *Parent Attitudes; Quasiexperimental Design; Report Cards;
School Schedules; Student Evaluation
