How Effective Are Family Literacy Programs?

By Roel van Steensel, Nele McElvany, J. Kurvers, Stephanie Herppich. 2011

190 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

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2. C. Tayler
3. Caroline Cohrssen
4. Frank Niklas
5. S. Wu
6. Yi Tang
7. Yang Dong
8. Weiyang Dong

In Education

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3. Frank Niklas
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6. Yang Dong
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8. J. R. García

Citations in the corpus

• Do Book Giveaway Programs Promote the Home Literacy Environment and Children’s Literacy-Related Behavior and Skills? (2020, background): “For instance, a meta-analysis (van Steensel et al., 2011) investigating the effects of more expensive family literacy programs involving parent guidance and training reports an effect size of d = 0.18 for comprehension-related skills and code-related skills—a much lower effect size than our…”
• The Effects of Home Literacy Environment on Children’s Reading Comprehension Development: A Meta-analysis (2020, methodology): “Past studies confirm the importance of HLE to the cultivation of children’s reading abilities (e.g., Liu, Georgiou, & Manolitsis, 2018; Sénéchal & LeFevre, 2014; Van Bergen et al., 2017).”
• Decoding and Reading Comprehension (2014, methodology): “We selected only studies published in peer-reviewed journals to ensure that they met the research standards of the field (e.g., Bar-Haim, Lamy, Lee, BakermansKranenburg, & van IJzendoorn, 2007; Ehri, Nunes, Stahl, & Willows, 2001; van Steensel et al., 2011).”
• Parents supporting learning: a non-intensive intervention supporting literacy and numeracy in the home learning environment (2016, background): “Meta-analyses of family literacy programmes have shown that more intensive interventions in the HLE are successful in enhancing children’s comprehension-related and code-related skills as well as spelling abilities (Sénéchal and Young 2008; Van Steensel et al. 2011).”