The Bright Beginnings preschool curriculum shows no discernible effects on preschool children's school readiness across oral language, print knowledge, phonological processing, and math domains¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q3
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Subclaims¶

q3 i? Across four outcome domains, the one study meeting WWC standards showed no statistically significant or substantively important effects, yielding a rating of no discernible effects. → overall-1

Evidence¶

overall-1¶

U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, What Works Clearinghouse. (2013, March). Early Childhood Education intervention report: Bright Beginnings. https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/InterventionReport/57

q3 · i? · causal · r2

The WWC's effectiveness summary, based on one randomized controlled trial (PCER Consortium, 2008) meeting standards with reservations, comparing 98 Bright Beginnings children with 100 comparison children in 14 classrooms. The report states Bright Beginnings "was found to have no discernible effects" in all four domains, each with a small extent of evidence.

"Bright Beginnings was found to have no discernible effects on oral language, print knowledge, phonological processing, or math for preschool children."

Discussion¶

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