Learning & Development
Research Report
Acelero 2011-12 Program Evaluation
Summary Report
Date
June 1, 2013
This report presents the results from the second year of NIEER’s evaluation of Acelero students’ learning in language and general conceptual knowledge and early math skills.
The results presented in this report are from the second year of NIEER’s evaluation of Acelero students’ learning in two areas: language and general conceptual knowledge, as measured by the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT), and early math skills, as measured by the Applied Problems subtest of the Woodcock Johnson Tests of Achievement (WJ-AP). In addition to measuring overall growth, authors Steve Barnett and Kwanghee Jung examined relationships between learning gains and children’s personal and family characteristics, program structure, curriculum, assessment system used, classroom process as measured by CLASS observations, and teacher characteristics.
The Authors
W. Steven (Steve) Barnett is a Board of Governors Professor and the founder and Senior Co-Director of the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) at Rutgers University. Dr. Barnett’s work primarily focuses on public policies regarding early childhood education, child care, and child development.
Kwanghee Jung, an assistant research professor, brings to NIEER expertise in quantitative data analysis and is working on studies that analyze the effect of participation in state-funded preschool on children’s learning and development.