Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) : 2000 Cohort [United States] / United States Department of Health and Human Services. Administration for Children and Families (ACF). Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE).

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 4149.

ICPSR ; 4149

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

2009-02-13.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

The Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) is an ongoing national longitudinal study of the cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development of Head Start children. It examines the characteristics, well-being, and accomplishments of families, the observed quality of Head Start classrooms, and the characteristics and opinions of Head Start teachers and other program staff. FACES was designed to address four central questions related to program performance objectives: Does Head Start enhance children's development and school readiness? Does Head Start strengthen families as the primary nurturers of their children? Does head Start provide children with high quality educational, health, and nutritional services? How is classroom quality related to child outcomes? The FACES 2000 Cohort involved a nationally representative sample of children and families in Head Start programs in the United States who were studied at entry into the program in the fall of 2000, assessed at the completion of one or two years of program experience, and followed up in the spring of the kindergarten year. The FACES 2000-2003 battery has four main components: the child assessment, parent interview, teacher and staff interviews, and classroom observations. The child assessments included the major components of school readiness, and were collected through direct child assessments and rating scales completed by parents and teachers. Direct child assessments included the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test Third Edition-Revised (PPVT-III), Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery-Revised, McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities, story and print concepts, social awareness, color names and one-to-one counting, Leiter International Performance Scale-Revised, interview ratings, and follow-up Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten (ECLS-K) measures. The parent interview wa ... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04149.

Contents:

Part 1: Fall 2000 Head Start Data; Part 2: Spring 2001 Head Start Data; Part 3: Spring 2002 Head Start Data; Part 4: Spring 2002 Kindergarten Data; Part 5: Spring 2003 Kindergarten Data; Part 6: Fall 2000 Head Start Through Spring 2003 Kindergarten Data; Part 7: Fall 2000 Head Start Education Service Coordinator Data; Part 8: Spring 2001 Head Start Family Service Worker Data; Part 9: Spring 2001 Head Start Father Self-Administered Data; Part 10: Fall 2000 Head Start Cross-Sectional Child Weights; Part 11: Fall 2000 Head Start Cross-Sectional Class Weights; Part 12: Fall 2000 Through Spring 2001 Longitudinal Child Weights; Part 13: Fall 2000 Through Spring 2001 Longitudinal Class Weights; Part 14: Fall 2000 Through Spring 2003 Longitudinal Child Weights; Part 15: Fall 2000 JKN Factors

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2009-04-22.

Start: 2000; and end: 2003.

OCLC:

436450045

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.