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Doors to Discovery
Early Childhood Education

Doors to Discovery™ was found to have potentially positive effects on oral language and print knowledge and no discernible effects on phonological processing and math for preschool children. 

Doors to Discovery™ is a preschool literacy curriculum that uses eight thematic units of activities to help children build fundamental early literacy skills in oral language, phonological awareness, concepts of print, alphabet knowledge, writing, and comprehension. The eight thematic units cover topics such as nature, friendship, communities, society, and health. Each unit is available as a kit that includes various teacher resources.

Findings

3
studies that met standards out of
4
eligible studies reviewed
Outcome
domain
Effectiveness Rating Grades Evidence Tier
General Mathematics Achievement No discernible effects PK
Oral language Potentially positive effects PK
Phonological processing No discernible effects PK
Print knowledge Potentially positive effects PK

Last Updated: June 2013

Race

Asian
4%
Black
18%
White
29%
Other or unknown
8%

Ethnicity

Hispanic
42%
Not Hispanic or Latino
58%

Gender

Male: 52%
Female: 48%

Delivery Method

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Whole Class

Urbanicity

Urban

Locations

TX
South
Note: This summary only includes data from studies that reported sample information. The Intervention Report may include evidence from other studies that met standards, but did not report sample information.


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This intervention report was prepared for the WWC by Mathematica under contract ED-IES-13-C-0010.

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