PAT Update: Key Parents as Teacher's Findings: A Research Overview

Studies on Parents as Teachers (PAT) have been going on since the program started in 1984. Schools, private groups, persons, and states have studied how PAT works. In the studies, researchers (people doing the study) talked to parents who were in the Parents as Teachers program and parents who were not in the PAT program. The researchers counted how many times all these parents went to visit their children in schools, school activities, and talked to the teachers. The researchers compared the two groups and found that the parents in PAT did more things to help their children do better in school. This information brief provides information for parents, in both English and Spanish, on the effectiveness of the PAT program in preparing children for school.

Filed under Early Childhood and tagged with Order from KPIRC PAT Update on December 08, 2008 #