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ERIC Number: ED145982
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1977-Jun
Pages: 19
Abstractor: N/A
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Ft. McDowell Indian Community Preschool Program.
Wurster, Stanley R.; Korth, Stephanie H.
Five program components were evaluated in the second program year of a preschool program for American Indian children (N=27) aged 2-6 years and residing at Fort McDowell, Arizona. Program components were: (1) classroom and training activity (to promote maximum social, intellectual, physical, and emotional development and to provide a training laboratory where parents could interact with their children); (2) parent outreach (parent classroom participation as aides and parent education classes); (3) family counseling (to strengthen family life and tribal traditions); (4) involvement of tribal elders and historians (to increase pride in tribal heritage); (5) development of culturally relevant curriculum materials. Administered on a pre- and post-test basis, the evaluation instruments employed were: Caldwell Preschool Inventory; Denver Developmental Test; Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test; Butler Evaluation Instrument; Parent as a Teacher Questionnaire; and Self Esteem Inventory. Results indicated: project success in improving social, readiness, and numerical conceptualization skills; project success in improvement of motor skills for the two-three year old group; project success in the improvement of project participants' language skills; partial project success in the improvement of social skills (gains in the areas of physical environment, world of ideas, and composite); negligible project success in the improvement of parental child rearing attitudes; and negligible project success in the improvement of parental self-concept or self esteem. (JC)
Publication Type: Reports - Research
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