Importance of Early Childhood Education

This research study sought to examine value of early intervention with students that were considered young kindergarten students. It followed the students from September 2011 through January 2012 from one rural Michigan school district. It sought to better understand the differences in test scores between the very young kindergarten population and the older students as well as the young male and female student populations in hopes of finding if there was a difference in outcomes between the groups. It then examined their DIBELS and MLPP test data through the use of an ANOVA. In doing so it was found that there was a significant difference between the test scores of the young and older populations as well as between the young male and female populations.