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132b. Direct Instruction: the evidence
Education Bookcast
Early Childhood Education Models That Emphasize Basic Skills Succeed Better
report on the effectiveness of Project Follow-through a school-based extension of Head Start was prepared by Abt Associates of Cambridge, Massachusetts it reached an erroneous conclusion that models that emphasize basic skills succeed better. Report says there was misclassification of early childhood education models so they were saying things were basic skills and cognitive or affective but didn't necessarily group them correctly. The evaluation measured very few of the goals stated by the developers of the follow-through models now that to me is quite weird. Even such straightforward skills is the ability to read aloud to write a story or to translate an ordinary problem and into numbers when unassessed both explicit and implicit goals of primary education in almost all schools
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