Status:
COMPLETED
Head Start Classroom-based Approaches and Resources for Emotion and Social Skill Promotion (Head Start CARES)
Lead Sponsor:
MDRC
Conditions:
Teacher Practice
Child Social-Emotional Development
Eligibility:
All Genders
3-4 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The purpose of this study was to deepen the evidence base for interventions that support the social-emotional skills that underlie children's engagement and attention to learning tasks by schools (lea...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Grantees had to have at least 4 centers with a similar racial/ethnic composition
- An equal number of classrooms with full-day or part-day programs
- And a similar mix of four-year-old-only and mixed-age (three-and four-year-old) classrooms.
- Children had to speak English and Spanish.
Exclusion
- A grantee was excluded from the sample if it: only ran early Head Start programs
- Only served migrant children
- Was located in a U.S. territory
- Only or mostly provided family child care or home services
- Was more than 100 miles from a "primary airport,"
- Operated fewer than 4 centers with two classrooms each
- Had been in operation for less than 2 years
- Was not in compliance with Head Start Standards
- They were already systematically implementing a social-emotional curriculum or participating in another evaluation study.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
April 1 2009
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
Estimated Enrollment :
2670 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT02257814
Start Date
April 1 2009
Last Update
October 6 2014
Active Locations (1)
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MDRC
New York, New York, United States, 10016