Sample A: Cover Page of Thesis, Project, or Dissertation Proposal

introduction to intervention storybooks; timing permitted neither an in-depth discussion
nor a demonstration of book reading techniques. Further, teacher training took place in
early to mid-December; and intervention implementation began in early January. This
meant that teachers completed the semester, broke for the winter holiday recess, and
conducted home visits with their children‘s families between training and intervention
implementation and may have forgotten methodological details presented during training
meetings. Also, one researcher supervised intervention implementation in 13 classrooms
across two sites; consequently, research resources available to teachers during
intervention implementation may have been limited.
Future research including current intervention methods should include more
frequent teacher training and closer supervision of intervention implementation in an
effort to strengthen statistical and practical differences between the intervention and book
reading control groups. A number of measures could be taken in order to achieve these
goals. Regarding teacher training, for instance, additional large-group training meetings
can be held throughout intervention implementation, including additional viewings of
portions of the Emergent Literacy Curriculum training video (Whitehurst, 1992) followed
by group discussion. This practice may strengthen statistical differences between the
intervention and book reading control groups by providing teachers more frequent and
intense instruction on implementing dialogic reading techniques as well as the
opportunity to reflect on their own and learn from others‘ experiences with implementing
intervention methods through discussion, thus reinforcing and building upon information
presented during training meetings. In addition to large-group training, teachers should
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