High School Graduation Effects of a Verbal Interaction Program for At-Risk Toddlers: A Study of Long-Term Outcomes in a Replication of the Mother-Child Home Program.

Autor/in	Levenstein, Phyllis
Titel	High School Graduation Effects of a Verbal Interaction Program for At-Risk Toddlers: A Study of Long-Term Outcomes in a Replication of the Mother-Child Home Program.
Quelle	(1998), (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Dropout Rate; Educational Assessment; Educational Attainment; Graduation; High Risk Students; High School Graduates; High School Students; High Schools; Interaction; Mothers; Outcome Based Education; Outcomes of Education; Parent Child Relationship; Parent Influence; Preschool Education; Program Effectiveness; Verbal Communication; Massachusetts + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Abschluss; Graduierung; Problemschüler; High school; High schools; Graduate; Graduates; Oberschule; Absolvent; Absolventin; Student; Students; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Interaktion; Mother; Mutter; Lernerfolgsmessung; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung; Master-Studiengang
Abstract	High school outcomes were assessed for 123 young adults, originally toddlers in the home-based, low-intensity Mother-Child Home Program (MCHP) and at risk for dropping out of high school because of their parents' low income and education. Participants were recruited for the Pittsfield, MA, replication of the MCHP and randomly selected into program and control status. The program's light touch was implemented through its unique method, based on interdisciplinary theory and consisting chiefly of home visitors modeling for mother and 2-year-old child, over 2 years, with a curriculum of playful verbal interaction around gifts of toys and books. As young adults, program toddlers were found to be less likely than controls to drop out of high school and more likely to graduate, matching the national middle-income graduation rate. Like all of its many replications, the Pittsfield replication of the MCHP had been certified by the Program's national center, after two years of implementation, to be an exact duplicate of the original. The results of this study suggest that the long-term achievement of successful academic performance may be accomplished by utilizing the non-didactic, play-oriented Mother-Child Home Program and demonstrate that this low-intensive and relatively inexpensive pre-preschool intervention is exportable to sites other than the original one. (Contains 78 references). (SD)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC