As an Extension of the Carolina Abecedarian Project, Ramey and Colleagues

question 16

Multiple Choice

As an extension of the Carolina Abecedarian Project, Ramey and colleagues randomly assigned some children and their families to a later-starting intervention program in early elementary school. They found that the children who participated only in these later-starting programs

• A) performed better than the children who participated in both the preschool and elementary school intervention programs.
• B) performed better than children who participated in only the preschool intervention program.
• C) performed no better than children in the control group.
• D) were uninterested in the program that the intervention study offered.

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