Shared Book Reading and Early Vocabulary Development: Child Motivation as a Moderator [Executive Summary]
This paper used a nationally representative sample of Head Start children to examine child motivation, shared book reading, and the trajectory of vocabulary development. Specifically, this paper used the latent growth curve analysis to examine whether child motivation moderated the effect of shared book reading on the vocabulary developmental trajectory.
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Protective Effects of Language Development Among Children in Head Start: A Person-Centered Approach
This poster examined whether the family literacy environment, children?s characteristics, and classroom environment would function as protective factors against the negative effect of poverty on language development among Head Start children. Growth mixture modeling was used to address the research questions.
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Child Motivation, Shared Book Reading, and Vocabulary Development: A Growth Mixture Modeling Approach
Based on the sociocultural theory and the expectancy-value theory, this poster examined direct effects of shared book reading and child motivation on the vocabulary trajectories, and whether child motivation moderated the effect of shared book reading on the vocabulary trajectories. The growth mixture modeling was performed to address the research questions with a nationally representative sample of Head Start children.
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Head Start Impact Study (HSIS), 2002-2006 Resource Guide
This resource guide provides a brief overview of the Head Start Impact Study (HSIS), 2002-2006 and specific instructions for obtaining the restricted-use HSIS datasets. HSIS users should refer to the User Guide, which provides greater detail on the topics discussed.
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Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99(ECLS-K), Kindergarten-Eighth Grade Full Sample Resource Guide
This resource guide provides a brief overview of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99, Kindergarten-Eighth Grade Full Sample (ECLS-K K-8) and specific instructions for obtaining the ECLS-K K-8 dataset, which you can download to your own computer. It also provides guidance in obtaining access to additional restricted-use data. ECLS-K users should refer to the User Guide, which provides greater detail on the topics discussed.
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Chicago Longitudinal Study, 1986-1989 Resource Guide
This user guide provides a brief description of the Chicago Longitudinal Survey (CLS), including data collection methods, available variables, and sample information. To locate additional information on this study, please refer to the User Guide.
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Pre-Elementary Education Longitudinal Study (PEELS) Resource Guide
This resource guide provides a brief overview of the Pre-Elementary Education Longitudinal Study (PEELS) and instructions for obtaining the restricted-use PEELS datasets. PEELS users should refer to the National Center for Special Education Research?s PEELS data webpage, which provides greater detail on the topics discussed.
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Panel Study for Income Dynamics, Child Development Supplement Resource Guide
This resource guide provides a brief overview of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Child Development Supplement (PSID-CDS), and specific instructions for creating an extract dataset which you can download to your own computer. It also provides guidance in obtaining access to additional restricted-use data. This document draws extensively on the official PSID documentation. For complete information about the study, users can refer to the PSID Web site and the PSID-CDS Web site.
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National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979: Child Surveys Resource Guide
This resource guide provides a brief overview of the children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979 and instructions for creating an extract dataset which you can download to your own computer. It also offers guidance in obtaining access to additional data from the main sample of mothers and for other family members, as well as guidance in accessing restricted-use versions of the data.
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National Head Start/Public School Early Childhood Transition Demonstration Study Resource Guide
This resource guide provides a brief overview of the National Head Start/Public School Early Childhood Transition Demonstration Study, 1991-1999, as well as instructions for obtaining a copy of the data and for linking the component datasets.
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Current Population Survey: Annual Social and Economic (ASEC) Supplement Survey, 2010
This data collection is comprised of data from the 2010 Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC), and is a part of the Current Population Survey (CPS) Series. The Census Bureau conducts the ASEC (known as the Annual Demographic File prior to 2003) over a three-month period, in February, March, and April, with most of the data collected in the month of March. The ASEC uses two sets of survey questions, the basic CPS and a set of supplemental questions.
The CPS, administered monthly, is a labor force survey providing current estimates of the economic status and activities of the population of the United States. Specifically, the CPS provides estimates of total employment (both farm and nonfarm), nonfarm self-employed persons, domestics, and unpaid helpers in nonfarm family enterprises, wage and salaried employees, and estimates of total unemployment.
In addition to the basic CPS questions, respondents were asked questions from the ASEC, which provides supplemental data on poverty, geographic mobility/migration, and work experience. Comprehensive work experience information was given on the employment status, occupation, and industry of persons aged 15 and over. Additional data for persons aged 15 and older were available concerning weeks worked and hours per week worked, reason not working full time, total income and supplemental income components. Additional data are included that cover training and assistance received under welfare reform programs such as job readiness training, child care services, or job skill training. Data covering nine noncash income sources: food stamps, school lunch program, employer-provided group health insurance plan, employer-provided pension plan, personal health insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, CHAMPUS or military health care, and energy assistance are also included.
Demographic variables include age, sex, race, Hispanic origin, marital status, veteran status, educational attainment, occupation, and income. Data on employment and income refer to the previous calendar year, although demographic data refer to the time of the survey.
The original ASEC data provided by the Census Bureau are distributed in a hierarchical file structure, with three record types present: Household, Family, and Person. The ASEC is designed to be a multistage stratified sample of housing units, where the hierarchical file structure can be thought of as a person within a family within a household unit. Here the main unit of analysis is the household unit.
Data Sets
Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN): Antonucci Map, Wave 3, 2000-2002
The Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN) was a large-scale, interdisciplinary study of how families, schools, and neighborhoods affect child and adolescent development. One component of the PHDCN was the Longitudinal Cohort Study, which was a series of coordinated longitudinal studies that followed over 6,000 randomly selected children, adolescents, and young adults, and their primary caregivers over time to examine the changing circumstances of their lives, as well as the personal characteristics, that might lead them toward or away from a variety of antisocial behaviors. Numerous measures were administered to respondents to gauge various aspects of human development, including individual differences, as well as family, peer, and school influences. One such measure was the Antonucci Map. It was administered to subjects in Cohorts 3, 6, 9, and 12 and provided information regarding the subject's close friendships.
Data Sets
Current Population Survey: Annual Social and Economic (ASEC) Supplement Survey, 2007
This data collection is comprised of data from the 2007 Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC), and is a part of the Current Population Survey (CPS) Series. The Census Bureau conducts the ASEC (known as the Annual Demographic File prior to 2003) over a three-month period, in February, March, and April, with most of the data collected in the month of March. The ASEC uses two sets of survey questions, the basic CPS and a set of supplemental questions.
The CPS, administered monthly, is a labor force survey providing current estimates of the economic status and activities of the population of the United States. Specifically, the CPS provides estimates of total employment (both farm and nonfarm), nonfarm self-employed persons, domestics, and unpaid helpers in nonfarm family enterprises, wage and salaried employees, and estimates of total unemployment.
In addition to the basic CPS questions, respondents were asked questions from the ASEC, which provides supplemental data on poverty, geographic mobility/migration, and work experience. Comprehensive work experience information was given on the employment status, occupation, and industry of persons aged 15 and over. Additional data for persons aged 15 and older were available concerning weeks worked and hours per week worked, reason not working full time, total income and supplemental income components. Additional data are included that cover training and assistance received under welfare reform programs such as job readiness training, child care services, or job skill training. Data covering nine noncash income sources: food stamps, school lunch program, employer-provided group health insurance plan, employer-provided pension plan, personal health insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, CHAMPUS or military health care, and energy assistance are also included.
Demographic variables include age, sex, race, Hispanic origin, marital status, veteran status, educational attainment, occupation, and income. Data on employment and income refer to the previous calendar year, although demographic data refer to the time of the survey.
The original ASEC data provided by the Census Bureau are distributed in a hierarchical file structure, with three record types present: Household, Family, and Person. The ASEC is designed to be a multistage stratified sample of housing units, where the hierarchical file structure can be thought of as a person within a family within a household unit. Here the main unit of analysis is the household unit. For ease of analysis at the person-level, ICPSR created a rectangular file structure that contains a record for every person with the respective Household and Family variables prepended to the Person variables. Part 1 contains the rectangular data file and Part 2 contains the original hierarchical data file.
Data Sets
InView: Level 1
Instruments
Comprehensive Assessment of Summer Programs
Instruments
Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test
Instruments
Washington Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills
Instruments
Child Care and Community Services: Characteristics of Service Use and Effects on Parenting
The study aims to improve the field's understanding of the features of child care services that are most critical to support children's development and identify family-level processes that might be influenced by child care. Specific research questions are: (1) What characteristics of parents predict usage of supports and services offered through the child care center and the community?; (2) What types of services and supports do parents use?; (3) Do the services and supports provided or referred to parents from the child care or preschool setting positively affect the home environment and parenting practices? To address these questions three national data sets (Head Start Impact Study, National Evaluation of Early Head Start, and National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development) are being analyzed. The results of the study can further inform the field of the parental characteristics related to service take-up and whether the services have a positive effect on the home, in addition to providing practitioners and policymakers with evidence to design early child care and education programs that improve the environments and relationships vital for children's academic and social development.
Administration for Children and Families/OPRE Projects
The Psychometric Quality of The Preschool Child Observation Record: Does It Pass the Test For Use in Child Care Programs?
The study aims to provide high quality evidence on the second most used assessment tool in Head Start--the Preschool Child Observation Record, 2nd edition (COR-2). To that end, this study has five objectives: (1) determine the dimensionality of the COR-2; (2) determine whether or not the optimal factor structure is the same for boys, girls, Whites, African Americans, Latinos, English language learners, and across time; (3) assess the extent to which the COR-2 is related to other validated measures of development captured at the same time and in the future; and (4) test the assumption that the five skill points of each COR-2 item are in fact in order of skill complexity. The study analyzes a subset of data from the Evidence-Based Program for the Integration of Curricula (EPIC) project, a comprehensive early childhood program specifically designed for preschool children from an underserved, minority urban population. This study uses the COR-2 data collected from a large representative sample of preschool children from low income households to examine the validity and quality of the COR-2 to inform child care services using rigorous psychometric methods. The project will interpret the research findings collaboratively with policymakers, child care professionals, and parents to stimulate a discussion about purposeful assessment in early childhood and to determine ways to improve assessment for preschool children from low income households.
Administration for Children and Families/OPRE Projects
Exploring the Potential of State-level Consolidated Governance for Bringing Coherence to Early Childhood Education Systems
The purpose of this research is to explore the decisions states make about the form and function of governance, the ways governance has impacted the Early Childhood Education (ECE) system, and opportunities and limits of governance for bringing coherence to the complex and fragmented ECE system. Of the states that have consolidated governance for ECE, this study focuses on three: Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Delaware. The research is being conducted using a phased approach to data collection and analysis. Each research question, designed to test the hypotheses regarding the importance of governance to improving the field of ECE, is addressed in each phase of data collection. This study can, by exploring the form and function of state-level governance, help bring much-needed definitional clarity to a term and a concept that has been defined as many things over the past decade. It can also articulate the potential benefits accorded to a state ECE system via governance, as well as make explicit the limits of governance on system development.
Administration for Children and Families/OPRE Projects
Caring for the Caregivers: Estimating the Causal Impact of Allowing Home-based Child Care Workers to Form Labor Unions on the Cost, Type, and Availability of Subsidized Child Care in Illinois
This study investigates the impact of granting Illinois home-based child care providers the right to form a labor union on the per-child cost of subsidized child care for infants and toddlers, the type of child care (home-based vs. center-based) used by subsidy-receiving Illinois infants and toddlers, and the percentage of Illinois infants and toddlers who use child care subsidies. These analyses are conducted using a comparative case study method with social, economic, demographic, and housing data from the American Community Survey and records of the Child Care and Development Fund on United States infants and toddlers whose families received child care subsidies during the period from 2002-2008. Results are expected to reveal whether the unionization of Illinois home-based child care providers increased, via the collective bargaining process, the per-child amount of vouchers paid to providers; and the level of influence, if any, this action affords the unions to influence bureaucratic and regulatory processes encouraging subsidy-receiving families to choose home-based, as opposed to center-based, care for their young children.
Administration for Children and Families/OPRE Projects
Quality Profiles in Early Childhood: An Example from Virginia's Quality Rating Improvement System
This study examines data collected on the quality of centers participating in Virginia's Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) to identify patterns and profiles of quality in these settings using a clustering technique. Identified patterns are compared with the composite quality level assigned by the state to determine associations with existing quality profiles across Virginia's 290 participating centers. It is expected that two profiles represent "high overall" and "low overall" patterns of quality, in addition to profiles that demonstrate differential levels or relative strengths and weakness among settings with regard to quality. If patterns of quality features do not bear significant associations with the star ratings, this information can be used by state leaders to reexamine thresholds for determining between star levels.
Administration for Children and Families/OPRE Projects
Revising state licensing requirements: Readiness for change
An overview of considerations for assessing the capacity and readiness of states to revise their child care licensing systems
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Risk assessment and licensing compliance
A presentation of approaches in state child care licensing systems in Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Virginia to assessing the risk of harm to children in noncompliant child care facilities
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Trends in group child care home licensing regulations and policies for 2011
An analysis of state group child care home licensing requirements and policies, including those related to staffing, group size, health and nutrition, inspections, monitoring, and enforcement, based on a survey of state child care licensing agencies and a compilation of state licensing requirements
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