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dialog-55	DeBaryshe, Barbara; Kim, Ji-Yeon; Davidson, Dana; Gorecki, Dana	She is awesome and retains information like a sponge: Implications of the Learning Connections family involvement curriculum for Head Start programs	2013	6	.pdf	application/pdf	2715	166	54	Quantitative data included (a) home activity participation (measured as the percentage of home activities completed and returned to the teacher), (b) an annual parent satisfaction survey, (c) classroom quality on the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) (Pianta, La Paro, & Hamre, 2005), and (d) yearly pre- and posttest assessment of children’s academic skills in the areas of oral language (Dunn & Dunn, 1997), emergent reading (Reid, Hresko, & Hammill, 2001), alphabet knowledge and phonological awareness (Invernizzi, Sullivan, Meirer, & Swank, 2004), and emergent mathematics (CTB/McGraw-Hill, 1990). For all four academic assessments we found that when families completed a higher percentage of home activities, their children had higher posttest scores.	cache/dialog-55.pdf	txt/dialog-55.txt