PreK-3 movement seeks to revolutionize early education
By Sarah Garland | The Hechinger ReportSANTA MARIA, Calif. — A few years ago, preschool teachers in Santa Maria, a low-income, mostly Hispanic city about 50 miles northwest of Santa Barbara, attended a series of meetings with kindergarten teachers in the district.
Most had never met. The teachers had little idea what happened in one another's classrooms.
What they discovered changed the course of early education in this small city and is at the heart of a new national reform movement known as PreK-3.
Among the revelations: The kindergarten teachers told the preschool teachers that their 5-year-olds, many of them immigrants, struggled with stories covered in the kindergarten reading curriculum. They weren't hearing American classics like "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" or "Humpty Dumpty" at home. So the preschools began incorporating those stories into their classrooms.
"Preschool and kindergarten were operating differently," said Karin Dominguez, a former teacher who initiated the meetings. "It was important for them to learn from each other."
The PreK-3 movement, which refers to the years spanning pre-kindergarten to third grade, wants to revolutionize early education through an ambitious list of connected initiatives, including universal access to free public preschool, mandatory full-day kindergarten and a curriculum that is seamlessly connected from preschool to third grade. Increasing parental involvement is also a major focus.
But some educators and experts have questioned how feasible and replicable the agenda is, especially as the financial crisis has forced states to cut preschool and full-day kindergarten. And critics and advocates alike have acknowledged that evidence supporting the collective reforms is scarce. The few schools and districts that have implemented parts or all of the PreK-3 agenda have shown mixed results so far.
"There are a lot of reasons why it should work, and why it would work," said Robert Pianta, the dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia. "We just haven't been able to pin the model down to evaluate it in a way to say that it's proven effective in improving achievement."
Nevertheless, the PreK-3 movement has gathered increasing attention and private money over the past five years. Proponents say their ideas could help reduce gaps in achievement between disadvantaged and advantaged children before they start, and save money on interventions for older students.
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Another critique of the PreK-3 model, by Ron Haskins, co-director of the Brookings Center on Children and Families in Washington, "can be summarized in one word: money." Many schools and districts have relied on foundation funding to implement elements
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SUMMARYThis study is concerned with the effectiveness of computer-based multimedia for developing listening comprehension in English as a Foreign Language (EFL). The listening skill plays a significant role in communication and in language learning (Rubin, 1994; Dunkel, 1991; Rost, 1990; Anderson and Lynch, 1988) and is perhaps “the most fundamental language skill” (Oxford, 1993: p. 205).
Listening is a key second language skill, it has a vital role in the language acquisition process, and its development is of prime concern to language teachers. Computer software applications to further language learning are becoming commonplace and with advances in technology are now able to include multimedia that delivers video and audio in combination with text.
This study investigates listening performance in a computer-based multimedia environment. It compares learner success rates on
Results of performance on tasks showed more effective comprehension and recall while using multimedia than either audio or video plus pen and paper. A learner questionnaire indicated possible reasons for the greater success of multimedia.
Implications of these results for the use of multimedia for listening comprehension are then discussed. Among these are that multimedia-delivered listening comprehension tasks may be more efficient and that ongoing feedback to tasks should improve comprehension.
a) The purpose
To try to assess if a computer-based multimedia application for listening comprehension was an effective tool.
It compared learner success on listening comprehension tasks and language recall tasks completed while .
b) The aims of the study
The aim of the study was to gain some initial quantitative data on the question Nyns (1989) posted as “Which medium is best suited to teach such-and-such a skill?” (p. 44).
The first was to compare multimedia-delivered listening comprehension tasks with the traditional pedagogic tools of audio cassette or video accompanied by written tasks. Second aim was to compare the language recall abilities of learners who had completed language tasks using these three different media. Finally, the study aimed to try to explain any differentials that were found in learner success rates among the three media.Critiquing Research Articles - Bookshelf
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