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Intervention: Ready, Set, Leap!®

Overview

Ready, Set, Leap!® is a comprehensive preschool curriculum that focuses on early reading skills such as phonemic awareness, letter knowledge, and letter-sound correspondence using multi-sensory technology that incorporates touch, sight, and sound. The Ready, Set, Leap!® curriculum is available in English and Spanish.

Research

One study of Ready, Set, Leap!® met the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) evidence standards. 1 The study included 254 low-income preschool children enrolled in 17 inner-city schools in Newark, New Jersey. This report focuses on immediate posttest findings to determine the effectiveness of the intervention. 2 The WWC considers the extent of evidence for Ready, Set, Leap!® to be small for oral language, print knowledge, phonological processing, and early reading/writing. No studies that met WWC evidence standards with or without reservations addressed cognition or math.

Effectiveness

Ready, Set, Leap!® was found to have no discernible effects on oral language, print knowledge, phonological processing, and early reading/writing skills.

  Oral language Print knowledge Phonological processing Early reading/ writing Cognition Math
Rating of effectiveness No discernible effects No discernible effects No discernible effects No discernible effects na na
Improvement index3 Average: 0 percentile points Average: +1 percentile point
Range: -3 to +5 percentile points		 Average: +8 percentile points
Range: +6 to +11 percentile points		 Average: +3 percentile points na na
na = not applicable
1 To be eligible for the WWC's review, the Early Childhood Education (ECE) intervention had to be implemented in English in center-based settings with children aged three to five or in preschool. The study included in this report implemented Ready, Set, Leap!® in combination with the existing curriculum used in the preschools (High/Scope).
2 The evidence presented in this report is based on available research. Findings and conclusions may change as new research becomes available. Ready, Set, Leap!® is being studied under the Preschool Curriculum Evaluation Research (PCER) Grants administered through the U. S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences. The final PCER reports were not released in time to be reviewed for this report.
3 These numbers show the average and range of student-level improvement indices for all findings across the study.