Positive Research

              In the 2012-2013 school year my school was chosen to participate in the UNC Evaluation of North Carolina PreK students. My class was chosen in which five participants were picked. The parents all had to sign consent forms to allow their children to participate. They chose the children from the forms that were turned back in on time. The NC Pre K program is a state-funded program we serve at risk children. In my county we have 234 pre-k spots. My school has 108 of those spots. They chose 15 students from our school all together to do research on. "In 2012–2013, the NC Pre-K Program served over 32,000 children in 2,150classrooms located in more than 1,200 sites. Similarly to previous years,the program was offered in a variety of setting types (public schools,private sites, Head Start) and continued to serve children with differenteligibility factors, with the vast majority from low-income families." (UNC, PG.1, 2013)

    The object of this study was to see if the NC Pre-k program was affective and assess the quality of the program. They did an ECERS evaluation on each classroom as well. In my experience this was a positive experience because we were given feedback on our facility, teachers, and students.

            "Similarly to the full sample, children in the DLL sub sample exhibited significant growth for all skills measured in English during pre-k and for most skills measured in Spanish. There were no differences by level of language proficiency, both for skills measured in English and in Spanish. DLLs in classrooms with better quality language and literacy environments made greater gains in language and literacy skills in English during NC Pre-K; in contrast, here were no clear patterns for other skills measured in English or for skills

measured in Spanish. (UNC, Pg.2, 2013)

UNC. Peisner-Feinberg, E. S., LaForett, D. R., Schaaf, J. M., Hildebrandt, L. M., Sideris, J., & Pan, Y. February, 2014.  Children's Outcomes and Program Quality in the North Carolina Pre-Kindergarten Program: 2012-2013 Statewide Evaluation Executive Summary