Are impacts of early interventions in the scandinavian welfare state consistent with a Heckman curve? A meta‐analysis

M Rosholm, A Paul, D Bleses, A Højen… - Journal of Economic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract “Early intervention” has been a mantra in recent debates about human capital
investment. Strong theoretical models motivate this focus by predicting that investment in …

The effectiveness of a large‐scale language and preliteracy intervention: The SPELL randomized controlled trial in Denmark

D Bleses, A Højen, LM Justice, PS Dale… - Child …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The present article reports results of a real‐world effectiveness trial conducted in Denmark
with six thousand four hundred eighty‐three 3‐to 6‐year‐olds designed to improve …

Effective language and literacy instruction: Evaluating the importance of scripting and group size components

D Bleses, A Højen, PS Dale, LM Justice… - Early Childhood …, 2018 - Elsevier
Identification of intervention program components most strongly associated with children's
outcomes is essential for designing programs that can be taken to scale. In this effectiveness …

Technology acceptance in context: Preschool teachers' integration of a technology-based early language and literacy curriculum

K Xie, VW Vongkulluksn, LM Justice… - Journal of Early …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This study examined how preschool teachers' perception of technology usability and
associated beliefs about technology integration influence the way they integrate a …

[HTML][HTML] Child disruptiveness moderates the effects of home book reading on oral language development

B Laursen, E Hoff, A Gaudree, A Højen… - Personality and Individual …, 2022 - Elsevier
Pediatricians recommend that parents read aloud to children, on the assumption that book
reading during early childhood promotes language skills. However, it is not clear that …

Estimating measurement error in child language assessments administered by daycare educators in large scale intervention studies

EF Haghish, W Vach, A Højen, D Bleses - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Measurement error is a ubiquitous element of social science studies. In large-scale
effectiveness intervention studies on child language, administration of the assessment of …

Promoting interactive skills and mind-mindedness among early childcare professionals: study protocol for a randomized wait-list controlled trial comparing the Circle of …

J Smith-Nielsen, KI Wendelboe, JEW Mohr, MS Væver… - BMC psychology, 2022 - Springer
Background In countries where the majority of young children are enrolled in professional
childcare, the childcare setting constitutes an important part of children's caregiving …

[PDF][PDF] Social contexts and language development: Past, present, and future

E Hoff, A Højen, D Bleses - Language development: Individual …, 2022 - researchgate.net
A book such as this one could not have been written, nor likely imagined, six decades ago,
when the modern study of language acquisition began. The chapters in this volume, which …

The quality of inclusion in Danish preschools

T Næsby - Early Child Development and Care, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The aim of this study is to investigate quality in Danish preschools and to establish whether
disadvantaged children benefit from preschool attendance in an inclusive perspective? The …

Individual differences in response to a large-scale language and pre-literacy intervention for preschoolers in Denmark

PS Dale, J Logan, D Bleses, A Højen… - Learning and Individual …, 2018 - Elsevier
The focus of the present study is to evaluate individual differences in response to a large (N=
1898 in the two conditions analyzed here), cluster-randomized, 20-week storybook-based …