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  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association

Overview

Dale C. Farran is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of social sciences, with a strong emphasis on education. Within this broad domain, their work covers education itself, clinical psychology, developmental and educational psychology, sociology and political science, and statistics and probability.

The topics central to Farran's studies relate mainly to early childhood education and development, parental involvement in education, school choice and performance, and teacher education and leadership studies. Additional interests include family and disability support research, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, and children's rights and participation.

Farran has published their research in various academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Early Childhood Research Quarterly
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development
  • Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness
  • Early Childhood Education Journal

Among their recent papers are the following:

  • "Effects of a statewide pre-kindergarten program on children's achievement and behavior through sixth grade." (2022, Developmental Psychology)
  • "Effects of Prekindergarten Curricula: Tools of the Mind as a Case Study" (2021, Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development)
  • "Preschool practices in Sweden, Portugal, and the United States" (2020, Early Childhood Research Quarterly)
  • "Academic gains in kindergarten related to eight classroom practices" (2020, Early Childhood Research Quarterly)
  • "Teachers, Schools, and Pre-K Effect Persistence: An Examination of the Sustaining Environment Hypothesis" (2020, Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness)

Farran has collaborated frequently with other researchers in their field. Notable co-authors include:

  • Kelley Durkin
  • Kimberly Turner Nesbitt
  • Mark W. Lipsey
  • Caroline Christopher
  • Sarah E. Wiesen

In recognition of their contributions, Farran was named a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Motivation and Self-Regulation as Predictors of Achievement in Economically Disadvantaged Young Children

    Robin B. Howse;Garrett Lange;Dale C. Farran;Carolyn D. Boyles

  • Longitudinal associations between executive functioning and academic skills across content areas.

    Mary Wagner Fuhs;Kimberly Turner Nesbitt;Dale Clark Farran;Nianbo Dong

  • Predicting IQ from mother-infant interactions.

    Craig T. Ramey;Dale C. Farran;Frances A. Campbell

  • Behavioral Risk Factors in Kindergarten.

    David H. Cooper;Dale C. Farran

  • Effects of the Tennessee Prekindergarten Program on children’s achievement and behavior through third grade

    Mark W. Lipsey;Dale C. Farran;Kelley Durkin

  • Early Math Trajectories: Low-Income Children's Mathematics Knowledge from Ages 4 to 11.

    Bethany Rittle-Johnson;Emily R. Fyfe;Kerry G. Hofer;Dale Clark Farran

  • Another decade of intervention for children who are low income or disabled: What do we know now?

    Dale C. Farran

  • Preschool Classroom Processes as Predictors of Children's Cognitive Self-Regulation Skills Development.

    Mary Wagner Fuhs;Dale C. Farran;Kimberly Turner Nesbitt

  • Executive Function Skills and Academic Achievement Gains in Prekindergarten: Contributions of Learning-Related Behaviors

    Kimberly Turner Nesbitt;Dale Clark Farran;Mary Wagner Fuhs

  • Infant Day Care and Attachment Behaviors Toward Mothers and Teachers.

    Dale C. Farran;Craig T. Ramey

  • Prekindergarten children’s executive functioning skills and achievement gains: The utility of direct assessments and teacher ratings

    Mary Wagner Fuhs;Dale Clark Farran;Kimberly Turner Nesbitt

  • A Randomized Control Trial of a Statewide Voluntary Prekindergarten Program on Children's Skills and Behaviors through Third Grade. Research Report.

    Mark W. Lipsey;Dale C. Farran;Kerry G. Hofer

  • Social Class Differences in Dyadic Involvement during Infancy.

    Dale C. Farran;Craig T. Ramey

  • Effects of a statewide pre-kindergarten program on children’s achievement and behavior through sixth grade.

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  • Interactions in an Inclusive Classroom: The Effects of Visual Status and Setting:

    Cindy G. McGaha;Dale C. Farran

  • Reciprocal Influence in the Social Interactions of Mothers and Three-Year-Old Children from Different Socioeconomic Backgrounds.

    Dale C. Farran;Ron Haskins

  • Evaluation of the Tennessee Voluntary Prekindergarten Program: Kindergarten and First Grade Follow-Up Results from the Randomized Control Design. Research Report.

    Mark W. Lipsey;Kerry G. Hofer;Nianbo Dong;Dale C. Farran

  • The Language of children reared in poverty : implications for evaluation and intervention

    Lynne Feagans;Dale Clark Farran

  • Evaluating Math Recovery Assessing the Causal Impact of a Diagnostic Tutoring Program on Student Achievement

    Thomas M. Smith;Paul Cobb;Dale C. Farran;David S. Cordray

  • Title I funded preschools as a developmental context for children's play and verbal behaviors.

    Dale C Farran;Whasoup Son-Yarbrough

  • Risk in Intellectual and Psychosocial Development

    Dale Clark Farran;James D. McKinney

  • Early Math Trajectories: Low-Income Children's Mathematics Knowledge from Age 4 to 11.

    Bethany Rittle-Johnson;Emily R. Fyfe;Kerry G. Hofer;Dale C. Farran

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark W. Lipsey
Mark W. Lipsey Vanderbilt University
Bethany Rittle-Johnson
Bethany Rittle-Johnson Vanderbilt University
Craig T. Ramey
Craig T. Ramey Virginia Tech
Connie Kasari
Connie Kasari University of California, Los Angeles
Susan T. Fiske
Susan T. Fiske Princeton University
Deborah Stipek
Deborah Stipek Stanford University
Robert J. Sternberg
Robert J. Sternberg Cornell University
Frances A. Campbell
Frances A. Campbell University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mats Granlund
Mats Granlund Jönköping University

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