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ACF Head Start National Research Conference

Washington, DC—June 23-25, 2008

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Date/Time

Topic

Presenter/Author(s)
Monday, June 23    
10:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m. FACES 2006: A Portrait of Head Start Children, Families, and Programs at Program Entry Jerry West, Louisa Tarullo, Nikki Aikens, and Lara Hulsey
  "The Implementation Evaluation of I Am Moving, I Am Learning (IM/IL): Lessons Learned About a Head Start Program Enhancement Designed to Prevent Childhood Obesity" Mary Kay Fox, Kristin Hallgren, Kimberly Boller, and Daniel Finkelstein
  "Oral Health Promotion, Prevention, and Treatment Strategies for Head Start Families: Findings from the Oral Health Initiative Evaluation" Patricia Del Grosso, Jamila Henderson, and Diane Paulsell
2:00-3:45 p.m. New and Improved Data Bases for Early Childhood Research Anne Bloomenthal
  "Early Head Start and Beyond: Contributions to Child Outcomes" John Love and Cheri Vogel
  Taking the Measure of Assessment for Young Children: Recommendations from Two National Panels Louisa Tarullo, Chair
Monday, June 23 Poster Session  
4:00-6:00 p.m. "'El Frog Se Escapō del Jar': Code-Switching and Young Children's Early Literacy Development" Margaret Caspe
Tuesday, June 24 Poster Symposium  
10:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Evaluation and Measurement Challenges of Research for a New Universal Preschool Initiative in a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Community John Love, Discussant
  "Development of a Language Routing Protocol to Determine Bilingual Spanish Speaking Children's Language of Assessment" Kathy Sonnenfeld, Nikki Aikens, Margaret Caspe, Susan Sprachman, and Sally Atkins-Burnett
  "Use of Conceptual Scoring to Increase Reliability and Validity of Direct Child Assessment with Linguistically Diverse Preschoolers" Sally Atkins-Burnett and Nikki Aikens
  "Measurement Equivalence of Teacher Rating Scales of Social-Emotional Development with a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Sample of Preschool Children" Aaron Douglas and Sally Atkins-Burnett
  "Development of a 'Respect for Differences Scale': A New Parent Report Measure" Paper; Poster Susan Sprachman, Margaret Caspe, and Sally Atkins-Burnett
  "Associations of Parent Ratings of Children's Behavior with Child Development in an Ethnically and Linguistically Diverse Sample of Preschool Children" Julieta Lugo-Gil, Yange Xue, Cheri Vogel, Elaine Hill, and John Love
3:00-4:45 p.m. What Have We Learned from Twelve Years of Early Head Start Research? John Love, Discussant
Tuesday, June 24 Poster Session  
4:45-6:30 p.m. "Text and Language Connections: Bilingual English-Spanish Speaking Children's Early Literacy Skills" Margaret Caspe
  "The Effects of Early Reading First on Preschool Classroom Environments and Children's Language and Literacy Skills" Christine Ross
  "Assessing Language, Literacy, and Mathematics Skills with Work Sampling for Head Start" Yange Xue
  "A National Perspective on Early Head Start" Cheri Vogel
  "An Investigation of Head Start Parents' Emergent Numeracy Beliefs and Practices" Shannon Monahan