Studies

Policy and Practice Study

The goal of this study was to understand how state, local and school policies and programmatic decisions influence classroom ecologies, defined as the nature of children’s relationships and interactions with other children and adults in the classroom. Researchers conducted interviews with state, district, school and classroom personnel and collected descriptive data to answer these questions.

Classroom Observation Study

Researchers sought to understand the ways in which dimensions of classroom ecology uniquely and interactively related to children’s outcomes from pre-K to third grade, via data collected on children, their classmates and their classrooms.

Longitudinal Study

The longitudinal study examined how kindergarten experiences may equalize the academic and social development of children who started school with different types of prekindergarten experiences and identified the dimensions of kindergarten ecology that were most influential.

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