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Active EL3 Projects
BrightStart! Research Project
The BrightStart! project involves a collaboration with the Nemours Children’s Health System, Columbus’ Ready4Success initiative, and local early childhood programs to examine the efficacy of the Nemours® BrightStart! program (NBS!). This is a 5-year randomized controlled trial funded by the Institute of Education Sciences.
Let’s Know!2
The Let’s Know!2 research project will examine the effects of a Tier 2 intervention aimed at language-focused comprehension skills for elementary school students.
Alphabet Learning and Instruction
Alphabet knowledge is a basic building block for early reading and writing. Children who learn the forms, names and sounds of letters during early childhood are less likely to experience reading difficulties later in school.
ProPELL: Promoting Preschoolers’ Early Language Learning
The Promoting Preschoolers’ Early Language Learning (ProPELL) project is a 4-year study, funded by the Institute of Education Sciences, working in partnership with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The project uses the APPLE: Ohio dataset to further explore the language gains that children make during early childhood programming and factors related to these gains.
Past EL3 Projects
Identifying and Helping Preschoolers in Columbus who may Benefit from Extra Literacy Support
In this project, Crane researchers worked with community partners to identify children who might benefit from one targeted, supplemental emergent literacy program, Nemours BrightStart! Researchers studied who qualified for this supplemental small-group instruction, how it was used, and whether it impacted children’s emergent and conventional literacy skill development.
Assessing Preschool Professionals’ Learning Experiences (APPLE: Ohio)
Professional development allows early childhood educators to advance their knowledge, skills, and classroom practices to ultimately improve outcomes for children. Because of this, across the state, professional development is included in requirements for licensing and program evaluations.
Core Knowledge in Preschool Project (CKP)
Core Knowledge in Preschool Project (CKP) addressed the efficacy of the Core Knowledge Preschool Program in promoting math and science skills of 3- to 5-year-old children at risk for academic difficulties due to socioeconomic disadvantage.
Nonspeaking Readers
Nonspeaking Readers is a study on the effects of two commercially available reading curricula designed for students with severe disabilities who are nonspeaking–Early Literacy Skills Builder (ELSB) and Accessible Literacy Learning (ALL).
Language and Reading Research Consortium (LARRC)
LARRC conducted a five-year study designed to substantially increase our understanding of language- and reading-comprehension development for children ages 4-8 years old (pre-kindergarten to grade 3). In total, 1,200 children in four states were followed longitudinally over five years.
Read It Again in Early Childhood Special Education (RISE)
The purpose of this project is to examine the efficacy of an intervention called Read It Again! for children with disabilities enrolled in early childhood special education and their typically developing classmates over the academic year and during kindergarten. Read It Again! comprises 60 lessons delivered over a 30-week period in twice weekly whole-class sessions.