Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) : 2003 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) ; 22580.

ICPSR ; 22580

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

2009-02-10.

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 2003 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 2003, assessed at the completion of their program experience, and followed up at the end of their kindergarten year. The FACES 2003 battery has five main components: the child assessment, parent interview, teacher and staff interviews, classroom observations and teacher-child reports. 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. Some of the 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 and assessor ratings. The parent interview was designed to provide Head Start with a comprehensive understanding of the families that they serve, including th ... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR22580.

Contents:

Part 1: Fall 2003 Head Start English and Spanish Child Assessment Data; Part 2: Fall 2003 Head Start Center Director Interview Data; Part 3: Fall 2003 Head Start Education Coordinator Interview Data; Part 4: Fall 2003 Head Start Classroom Observation Data; Part 5: Fall 2003 Head Start Parent Interview Data; Part 6: Fall 2003 Head Start Teacher's Child Report Data; Part 7: Fall 2003 Head Start Teacher Interview Data; Part 8: Spring 2004 Head Start English and Spanish Child Assessment Data; Part 9: Spring 2004 Head Start Classroom Observation Data; Part 10: Spring 2004 Head Start Parent Interview Data; Part 11: Spring 2004 Head Start Teacher's Child Report Data; Part 12: Spring 2004 Head Start Teacher Interview Data; Part 13: Spring 2005 Head Start English and Spanish Child Assessment Data; Part 14: Spring 2005 Head Start Parent Interview Data; Part 15: Spring 2005 Head Start Teacher's Child Report Data; Part 16: Spring 2005 Head Start Teacher Interview Data; Part 17: Spring 2005 Spr ...

Notes:

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

Start: 2003; and end: 2006.

OCLC:

436447892

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.