Sep 15, 2017 | Age Norm, At-risk students, Pre-K Education, Research
In 2013-14, Oakland University organized a major study of GrapeSEED conducted across 22 preschool classrooms in Michigan. The 432 students that took the assessment were part of Michigan’s state-funded Great Start Readiness Program (GSRP) for four year old at-risk...
Sep 15, 2017 | Dose Effect, Pre-K Education, Research
A major study of children from low-income and homeless English speaking families over a period of three years used the Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA) measurement. The challenge was that these children often times were speaking their own dialect of English, or...
Sep 15, 2017 | Pre-K Education, Testimonial
Certain research including that of Dr. Joseph Torgesen points to a specific window of opportunity for language development, a particularly important age is four years. Such research would appear to lend credence to the educational value of Michigan’s Great Start...
Sep 15, 2017 | DRA, Pre-K Education, Research
Students who started GrapeSEED at an earlier age outperformed their peers. The 2013-2014 research results with the Great Start Readiness Program (GSRP) preschool students showed that four-year-old students outperformed their older counterparts. In the second year of...
Sep 15, 2017 | Education, MLPP, Pre-K Education, Research
In a study of children from low-income and homeless English speaking families over a period of three years, the researchers highlighted an unexpected result. This graph shows the boys outperforming the girls on the Michigan Literacy Progress Profile (MLPP) sight word...
