Head Start program quality: Examination of classroom quality and parent involvement in predicting children's vocabulary, literacy, and mathematics achievement trajectories

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 640-653

  Wen, Xiaoli ^a   Bulotsky Shearer, Rebecca J ^b   Hahs Vaughn, Debbie L ^c   Korfmacher, Jon ^d  

^a NATIONAL LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^d ERIKSON INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic growth; Classroom quality; Head Start; Parent involvement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869006017     PISSN: 08852006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2012.01.004     Document Type: Article

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