Evaluating the Impact of a Tech-Based Early Childhood Vocabulary Program

Evaluating the Impact of a Tech-Based Early Childhood Vocabulary Program

Vocabulary is critical to literacy development in early childhood, yet large disparities in vocabulary knowledge persist between children from high-income and low-income backgrounds. In a randomized evaluation, researchers evaluated the Big Word Club, a classroom-based digital learning program designed to increase the vocabulary of young children, to assess the program’s impact on children’s receptive vocabulary. Read the evaluation here.