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 | ESL, Research, WIDA
In a study of GrapeSEED with ESL students, the teachers used a pull-out program to teach children in kindergarten through second grade. This study was conducted over three years. Children from 22 different languages received GrapeSEED. The assessment measure used in...
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...
