National Head Start/Public School Early Childhood Transition Demonstration Study, 1991-1999 / United States Department of Health and Human Services. Administration for Children and Families. Head Start Bureau.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 4712.

ICPSR ; 4712

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

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:

In 1990, the United States Congress authorized a major program designed to enhance the early public school transitions of former Head Start children and their families. Former Head Start children, like many other children living in poverty, were at risk for poor school achievement. This new program was launched to test the value of extending comprehensive, Head Start-like supports "upward" through the first four years of elementary school. This project, administered by the Head Start Bureau of the Administration on Children, Youth, and Families, funded 31 local Transition Demonstration Programs in 30 states and the Navajo Nation from the 1991-1992 school year through the 1997-1998 school year and involved more than 450 public schools. The National Transition Demonstration Study was conducted to provide information about the implementation of this program and its impact on children, families, schools, and communities. More than 7,500 former Head Start children and families were enrolled in the National Study. Thousands of other children and families, however, participated in the Transition Demonstration Program, since supports and educational enhancements were offered to all children and families in the classrooms. The datasets are organized into four broad categories: Family Units -- There are six family unit files. A "family unit" record consists of information about a child or family as the result of source data taken from family interviews, records of child test scores on a child instrument, school archival records, or teacher questionnaires (Part B). If data were available from any combination of these source documents, a family unit record was generated. A broad range of variables are included under this heading. Variables range from simple demographics to standardized scores of social skill ratings as well as neighborhood factor scores and child outcome scores ... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04712.

Contents:

Part 1: Early Kindergarten Data; Part 2: Late Kindergarten Data; Part 3: Early/Late Combined Kindergarten Data; Part 4: First Grade Data; Part 5: Second Grade Data; Part 6: Third Grade Data; Part 7: School Units

Spring 1993 Data; Part 8: School Units

Spring 1994 Data; Part 9: School Units

Spring 1995 Data; Part 10: School Units

Spring 1996 Data; Part 11: School Units

Spring 1997 Data; Part 12: Classroom Units

Spring 1993 Data; Part 13: Classroom Units

Spring 1994 Data; Part 14: Classroom Units

Spring 1995 Data; Part 15: Classroom Units

Spring 1996 Data; Part 16: Classroom Units

Spring 1997 Data; Part 17: Exit Interview Family Data; Part 18: Exit Interview Family Service Specialists Data; Part 19: Exit Interview School Principal Data; Part 20: Exit Interview Teacher Part A Data; Part 21: Exit Interview Teacher Part B Data; Part 22: Community Characteristics Data

Notes:

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

Start: 1991-09-28; and end: 1999-09-29.

OCLC:

436450306

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Restricted for use by site license.