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Author: Ingels, Steven J.
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1. Green, Patricia L.
Hoogstra, Lisa A.
Ingels, Steven J.
Greene, Harrison N.
Marnell, Patricia K.
Formulating a Design for the ECLS: A Review of Longitudinal Studies
Working Paper No. 97-24, U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, Washington DC, August 1997
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLS General, NLSY79
Publisher: U.S. Department of Education
Keyword(s): Behavioral Problems; Canada, Canadian; Child Care; Child Health; Children; Cognitive Ability; Cross-national Analysis; Divorce; Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS-B, ECLS-K); Family Background and Culture; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Longitudinal Data Sets; Longitudinal Surveys; Maternal Employment; Overview, Child Assessment Data; Parents, Single; Poverty; Self-Esteem

The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS) is a new study that will focus on children's early school experiences beginning with kindergarten. The ECLS is being developed under the sponsorship of the U.S. Department Education, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), with additional financial and technical support provided by the Administration of Children, Youth, and Families, the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs and Office of Indian Education, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Consumer Service. Approximately 23,000 children throughout the country will be selected to participate as they enter kindergarten and will be followed as they move from kindergarten through 5th grade. Base-year data will be collected in the fall of 1998, with additional spring follow-up data collections scheduled for 1999 through 2004. Information about children's neighborhoods, families, schools, and classrooms will be collected from parents, teachers, and school administrators. Because of the magnitude and complexity of the ECLS, NCES has set aside an extended period of time for planning, designing, and testing the instruments and procedures that will be used in the main study. NCES and its contractor, the National Opinion Research Center, are using this time to examine a variety of issues pertaining to the sampling and assessment of young children and their environments. The design phase of the study will culminate in a large-scale field test during the 1996-97 school year. NCES has sought the participation and input of many individuals and organizations throughout the design phase of the ECLS. The participation of these individuals and Organizations has resulted in a set of design papers that identify policy and research questions in early education, map the content of the ECLS study instruments to these questions, and explore and evaluate different methods for assessing the development of children and for capturing data about their homes, schools, and classrooms. This paper is one of several that were prepared in support of ECLS design efforts. The information on the studies described in this paper were current at the time the paper was written. We recognize that work on some of the studies has moved forward since that time. It is our hope that the information found in this paper not only will provide background for the development of the ECLS, but will be useful to researchers developing studies of young children and their educational experiences.
Bibliography Citation
Green, Patricia L., Lisa A. Hoogstra, Steven J. Ingels, Harrison N. Greene and Patricia K. Marnell. "Formulating a Design for the ECLS: A Review of Longitudinal Studies." Working Paper No. 97-24, U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, Washington DC, August 1997.