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SATELLITE-BASED DISTANCE COURSES FOR IN-SERVICE TRAINING: The Case of Heads Up! Reading
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Quarterly Review of Distance Education
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January 1, 2007
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- Morrison, Johnetta Wade; Raya-Carlton, PamÃ; ©; la; Henk, Jennifer K; Thornburg, Kathy R
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This article discusses the use of distance courses as an in-service training mechanism for early childhood personnel. The authors evaluated the efficacy of the in-service, satellite-based distance course HeadsUp! Reading (HU!R). The analysis of HU!R data revealed that there were no initial differences in the Language and Literacy Early Childhood: Knowledge Measure scores of the 62 HU!R course and 29 comparison participators who did not attend the satellite-based course. However, by May 2002, a significant difference (p < .0001) in scores between the HU!R and the comparison groups occurred. Similar results were found between a second cohort of participants in 2003. Based on our HU!R ...