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X0001 · cabell_et_al_2025_ckla_kindergarten_trial · curator-reviewed external evidence; no Hirsch corpus occurrences

Impact of a Content-Rich Literacy Curriculum on Kindergarteners' Vocabulary, Listening Comprehension, and Content Knowledge

Reviewed canonical citation: Cabell, S. Q., Kim, J. S., White, T. G., Gale, C. J., Edwards, A. A., Hwang, H., Petscher, Y., & Raines, R. M. (2025). Impact of a content-rich literacy curriculum on kindergarteners' vocabulary, listening comprehension, and content knowledge. Journal of Educational Psychology, 117(2), 153-175.
study independent evaluation with developer support0 corpus occurrences · 0 Hirsch books · load 0

External to Hirsch’s corpus. This work was selected by an editorial review for D2; Hirsch did not cite it in the ten books indexed here. Its zero occurrence, book, and load counts are intentional. No corpus occurrence has been inferred or created.

Identity review: Codex multi-agent D2 evidence audit; not human-signed · 2026-08-24
The full pre-review draft dated 18 April 2024 was checked for design, sample, outcomes, moderators and programme ties. Final 2025 article identity and metadata were checked separately; the final full text was not compared with the draft.

Access checked: full text read · 2026-08-24 · open checked access point
Full pre-review draft read; final publication metadata and abstract checked separately. The final article full text was not compared with the draft.

Independence category: CKF affiliated The evaluator team studied a Core Knowledge Foundation programme, and CKF facilitated recruitment and professional development. The authors report a research firewall and no conflict of interest, but this remains a CKF-supported developer-evaluator study rather than an independent programme replication.

Impact of a Content-Rich Literacy Curriculum on Kindergarteners' Vocabulary, Listening Comprehension, and Content Knowledge · single work

Review authority: Codex multi-agent D2 evidence audit; not human-signed

Cabell, S. Q., Kim, J. S., White, T. G., Gale, C. J., Edwards, A. A., Hwang, H., Petscher, Y., & Raines, R. M. (2025). Impact of a content-rich literacy curriculum on kindergarteners' vocabulary, listening comprehension, and content knowledge. Journal of Educational Psychology, 117(2), 153-175.

Primary reviewed work · study

Impact of a Content-Rich Literacy Curriculum on Kindergarteners' Vocabulary, Listening Comprehension, and Content Knowledge

Sonia Q. Cabell, James S. Kim, Thomas G. White, Charles J. Gale, Ashley A. Edwards, Hyejin Hwang, Yaacov Petscher, Rhonda M. Raines · 2025 · Journal of Educational Psychology 117(2), 153-175

Full pre-review draft dated 18 April 2024 used for substantive appraisal; final 2025 article identity and metadata checked separately. The draft was not the accepted manuscript and was not compared line by line with the final article.

doi.org/10.1037/edu0000916 · checked record

Review state: full text read

Cabell et al. 2025 CKLA kindergarten cluster RCT · supports A2, qualifies A3, qualifies A4, challenges A5, challenges A6, qualifies A7

Role

programme specific acquisition and transfer test

Access / review

full pre review draft; primary read — Full pre-review draft dated 18 April 2024, including two trials, samples, outcome families, moderation and CKF role

Independence for this use

independent evaluation with developer support

CKF facilitated recruitment and professional development; authors report a research firewall and no conflict of interest. This identifies the CKLA package but is not a support-free replication.

Can establish

One semester of CKLA caused large gains on taught vocabulary and some proximal content outcomes across 47 schools.

Cannot establish

Broad language transfer, longer-run cumulative effects or an equalizing treatment-by-disadvantage effect.

Open limitation: Distal standardized language outcomes were null or tiny, and standardized social studies was .00, despite a proximal Native Americans social-studies effect of .93. No economic-disadvantage moderation emerged; exploratory baseline-vocabulary and ELL patterns sometimes favoured higher starters.

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No occurrence is shown because Hirsch did not cite this work in the ten-book corpus. The dossier appraisal above records why the editorial layer selected it.