Beginning With Books

Elizabeth Segel
Carnegie Library of
Pittsburgh Homewood Branch
7101 Hamilton Avenue
Pittsburg, PA 15208		     Telephone: (412) 731-1717

Program Description

Focus Area     Age Group
Early Literacy, Family Literacy; Parent Education and Involvement     Parents and children preK to age 11
     

Research Description

Outcomes
  • Increase in the number of requests to read with parent
  • Higher children's language and reading ability
  • Increase in amount of time that parents and children read together

Research Category

       5   Local Research (Program evaluation report was reviewed.)

Design

   Other   Pre-posttest design with experimental group only.

Multiple Studies

   Yes   Follow-up study conducted in 1990

Sample Size

   >50   Experimental Group=393 families

Valid/ Reliable
Instrument

   No   Parent and teacher survey. Psychometric properties were not available.

Results

   Yes   Statistically significant. The effect size was not stated in the research

Published

   No   There were no published studies.

Follow-up Data

   Yes   Study was conducted when children were in kindergarten. Results indicated that program effects were sustained.

Award

   No   There were no awards to the program.