Indiana's Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corporation began full-day, everyday kindergarten in four schools in the 1978-1979 school year. In 1980, an evaluation of the effectiveness of the first two years of full-day kindergarten was published. A longitudinal study of the effectiveness of full-day kindergarten, including information concerning grades one through four, was issued in 1983. This report summarizes the earlier two studies, adds information about grades five through eight, and ties together the various strands and grade-level results to determine the consequences of full-day kindergarten. The purpose of the study was to determine whether the students who completed full-day, everyday kindergarten in 1979 or 1980 obtained long-term benefits. These students were compared with students in half-day programs. Data were collected from standardized tests, report cards, school records, questionnaires, and interviews. Included in the report are approximately 20 pages of copies of newspaper articles concerning implementation of full-day kindergarten in Evansville. Articles reveal the high degree of interest in starting the full-day program. Concerns focus on student achievement, parent and teacher acceptance, attitudes, self-concept, attendance, participation in school activities, burnout, and content of the school day. (RH)
- Authorizing Institution
- Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corp., IN.
- Location
- Indiana
- Peer Reviewed
- F
- Publication Type
- Reports - Evaluative
- Published in
- United States of America
Table of Contents
- XIII. 8
- CHAPTER I 12
- The Evansville Press 18
- September 21 1978 18
- The Evansville Courier 20
- The Evansville Press 22
- The Evansville Press 29
- From Page 1-A 31
- CHAPTER II 43
- Report Card Conduct Marks 47
- CHAPTER III 54
- Opinions of Teachers and Parents 54
- Full-Day Kinderarten Teacher Opinionnaire 54
- Teacher Opinionnaire - Primary 61
- FROM THE EACHER OPINIONNAIRE 65
- ON TEACHER OPINIONNAIRE 66
- Parent Questionnaire 81
- Grades Three and Four 81
- Attendance Attitudes Conduct Nonpromotion and Self-Concept 88
- TABLE Xil 90
- Report Card Conduct Marks 98
- FOR PIERS-HARRIS CHILDRENS 111
- SIXTH SEVENTH AND EIGHTH GRADE PARTICIPATION IN THE ACADEMIC 132
- SIXTH GRADE PARTICIPATION IN ATHLETICS BY 133
- PARTICIPATION IN ATHLETICS BY 135
- EIGHTH GRADE 136
- PARTICIPATION IN ATHLETICS BY 136
- SIXTH SEVENTH AND EIGHTH GRADE PARTICIPATION IN OTHER ACTIVITIES 137
- Grades One Two and Three 138
- SIXTH SEVENTH AND EIGHTH GRADES FOR 143
- SIXTH SEVENTH AND EIGHTI GRADE 145
- Purpose of the Study 148
- Opinions of Teachers and Parents 159
