Iterative Design and Pilot Testing of the Developing Talkers Tiered Academic Language Curriculum for Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten

Autor/inn/en	Zucker, Tricia A.; Carlo, Maria S.; Landry, Susan H.; Masood-Saleem, Saba S.; Williams, Jeffrey M.; Bhavsar, Vibhutibala
Titel	Iterative Design and Pilot Testing of the Developing Talkers Tiered Academic Language Curriculum for Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten
Quelle	In: Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 12 (2019) 2, S.274-306 (33 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1934-5747
DOI	10.1080/19345747.2018.1519623
Schlagwörter	Academic Language; Preschool Education; Kindergarten; Curriculum Development; Guidelines; Teacher Competencies; Vocabulary Development; Evidence Based Practice; Teaching Methods; Teacher Attitudes; Preschool Teachers; Intervention; Poverty; English Language Learners; Academic Achievement; Correlation; Faculty Development; Pilot Projects; Teacher Characteristics; Language Processing; Units of Study; Video Technology; Classroom Observation Techniques; Screening Tests; Teacher Student Relationship; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Teacher Certification; Language Acquisition + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Academic; Language; Languages; Akademiker; Sprache; Wissenschaftssprache; Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Richtlinien; Lehrkunst; Wortschatzarbeit; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Lehrerverhalten; Preschool education; Erzieher; Erzieherin; Kindergärtnerin; Vorschule; Armut; Schulleistung; Korrelation; Pilot project; Modellversuch; Pilotprojekt; Sprachverarbeitung; Lerneinheit; Screening-Verfahren; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb
Abstract	Curricula are one of the most widely used educational inputs, yet few are developed and evaluated scientifically with a dearth of programs targeting academic language. This manuscript describes an iterative approach to the development of a tiered academic language curriculum supplement for prekindergarten (pre-K) and kindergarten (K) students. A series of four studies were conducted to iteratively design the curriculum following a framework for developing research-based curriculum; however, we modified the framework to focus on efficiently preparing a curriculum for large-scale use by teachers with diverse competency levels. Findings from the first three iterative design studies include the benefit of overdevelopment to retain only the strongest content and the need to consider both beginner and more advanced teachers as end users. Results of the final pilot (N = 1,193 students) show strong effects on taught vocabulary words (pre-K: d = 1.29; K: d = 0.84). Teachers had positive responses to the curriculum, but they did not generalize use of research-based practices during a transfer task (shared book reading lesson). Implications for developing curriculum are discussed. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01