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

Participant Recruitment
Head Start teachers and children were recruited for participation in the research.
The lead researcher talked to Head Start teachers during programming hours (i.e., during
teaching preparation on Fridays for half-day teachers and before class and during nap
time for full-day teachers). At the time that teachers were recruited for the study, they
completed an informed consent document (see Appendix B) and a brief demographic
questionnaire, and the lead researcher provided them a copy of the document for their
own records.
With the consent of each classroom‘s teachers, a number of means of recruiting
children were employed, including attending parent meetings, talking to parents during
programming hours, posting informational flyers on ‗parent information boards‘ in Head
Start classrooms, and sending research paperwork home weekly in children‘s classroom
folders until desired participant numbers were reached. Teachers were also asked to talk
and pass and collect consent forms to parents as they picked up and dropped off their
children. Each classroom was provided a large envelope including a list of all children
eligible for participation in that classroom. Teachers were instructed to return parents‘
research paperwork to the envelope upon receipt. On Friday of every week during the
participant recruitment phase, the lead researcher collected research paperwork from the
envelope. At this time, the lead researcher also placed additional copies of research
paperwork into folders of eligible children whose parents had not yet returned the
paperwork.
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