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

At the time that children were recruited for the study, parents completed research
paperwork, including an informed consent document (see Appendix C), a parent
questionnaire accompanying Denham‘s (1986) Affect Knowledge Test (AKT; see
Appendix D; see description in next section), and a brief demographic questionnaire
obtaining information about the child (i.e., birth date, gender, child care and early
childhood education history, race and ethnicity, and languages spoken) and the child‘s
family (i.e., mothers‘ and fathers‘ education, number of adults present in the child‘s
home, annual household income, and languages spoken in the home). At that time,
parents were also provided a copy of the informed consent document for their own
records.
Children whose parents submitted fully completed research paperwork were
included in the study. Phone numbers were obtained for families who returned
incomplete research paperwork (but had consented to their children‘s participation) from
Head Start staff early in the participant recruitment phase. Whenever possible, the lead
researcher contacted families by phone and talked to parents during pick-up and drop-off
times and special events (e.g., parent-teacher conferences) to obtain any information
omitted from returned research paperwork. In order to assign each classroom a maximum
of two reading groups including 5 children each, a maximum of 10 children returning
completed research paperwork from each classroom were included in the study. In the
event that more than 10 children per classroom returned completed paperwork, the first
10 of these children were included in the study. The order in which completed paperwork
was received determined participant identification assignments for data collection
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