Tyler W. Watts

This project will evaluate the efficacy of a new comprehensive interdisciplinary curriculum, Connect4Learning (C4L). Although the importance of all young children gaining competence in four core curricular domains-social-emotional, language and literacy, mathematics, and science-is well established, research results on the efficacy of comprehensive curricula is dismal, with no measurable effects in comparative studies and near zero effect sizes for the most commonly-used preschool curricula....

The purpose of this project is twofold: 1) to evaluate the long-term impact of a preschool self-regulation and school-readiness intervention on later self-regulation skills, and 2) to evaluate the impact of a new mindset intervention to improve self-regulation and, ultimately, college readiness in high school students. The preschool intervention (Chicago School Readiness Project, or CSRP) was aimed at supporting low-income students' chances of success in navigating the preschool to kindergar...