title: CSRP's Impact on low-income preschoolers' preacademic skills: self-regulation as a mediating mechanism.
abstract: Based on theoretically driven models, the Chicago School Readiness Project (CSRP) targeted low-income children's school readiness through the mediating mechanism of self-regulation. The CSRP is a multicomponent, cluster-randomized efficacy trial implemented in 35 Head Start-funded classrooms (N = 602 children). The analyses confirm that the CSRP improved low-income children's self-regulation skills (as indexed by attention/impulse control and executive function) from fall to spring of the Head Start year. Analyses also suggest significant benefits of CSRP for children's preacademic skills, as measured by vocabulary, letter-naming, and math skills. Partial support was found for improvement in children's self-regulation as a hypothesized mediator for children's gains in academic readiness. Implications for programs and policies that support young children's behavioral health and academic success are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Psychology, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA. cybele.raver@nyu.edu
authors.forename: C Cybele
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Raver
authors.forename: Stephanie M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Li-Grining
authors.forename: Fuhua
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zhai
authors.forename: Kristen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Bub
authors.forename: Emily
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pressler
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D002675:Child, Preschool; D018479:Early Intervention, Educational / Q000379:methods*; D056348:Emotional Intelligence; D005191:Family Characteristics; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D007804:Language Development; D008433:Mathematics; D010552:Personality Assessment; D011203:Poverty / Q000523:psychology*; D011932:Reading; D012927:Social Control, Informal; D012931:Social Environment; D012951:Socialization; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014505:Urban Population