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Family Size, Intelligence, And Patterns Of Achievement In Preschool Children, H. Jane Reppas
Family Size, Intelligence, And Patterns Of Achievement In Preschool Children, H. Jane Reppas
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of membership in a large or small family to the patterns of achievement as revealed by the results of the subtests of the Iowa Test of Preschool Development (ITPD). Of interest also was the study of the relationship of membership in subgroups based on both race and family size to patterns of achievement.
The subjects of the study were eighty black and white preschool children. There were twenty children in each subgroup small black family, large black family, small white family, and large white family). The subgroups were similar in …
The Effect Of Preschool Experiences On The Achievement Of Kindergarten Children Enrolled In The 1971-1972 Follow Through Program In Waterloo, Iowa, David Phillip Stetson
The Effect Of Preschool Experiences On The Achievement Of Kindergarten Children Enrolled In The 1971-1972 Follow Through Program In Waterloo, Iowa, David Phillip Stetson
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The problem of the investigation concerned itself with the effect of preschool experiences on the achievement of the kindergarten children enrolled in the 1971-1972 Follow Through Program in Waterloo, Iowa, which used the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, model of individually prescribed instruction. The study explored the effects of preschool experience upon kindergarten males and females as contrasted to the male and female kindergarten children without preschool experience.
Two conceptual constructs gave direction and provided the rationale for this study. The first conceptual construct provided research related to early childhood education presented according to the Geneticist, Environmentalist, and the Interactionalist's positions. The second …