Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES 2019)
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 5,593
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Language-Spanish receptive vocabulary
研究概览
简要总结
For over two decades, the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) has been an invaluable source of information on the Head Start program and the children and families it serves. FACES 2019 extends a previously conducted data collection to a new sample of Head Start programs, families, and children. Mathematica and its partners, Juárez and Associates, Educational Testing Service, and consultants Margaret Burchinal and Martha Zaslow, developed instruments and data collection procedures to assess the school readiness skills of 2,260 children and survey their parents and Head Start teachers in fall 2019 and spring 2020 and conduct observations in Head Start classrooms and survey Head Start staff in spring 2020 and spring 2022. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, spring 2020 child assessments and classroom observations were canceled while surveys of parents and staff continued. The pandemic and a heightened interest in the Head Start workforce brought a shift in approach and focus to spring 2022 data collection activities. As a result, those activities are not described here and instead are listed under NCT06512740.
详细描述
The Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey 2019, or FACES 2019, is the seventh in a series of national studies of Head Start, with earlier studies conducted in 1997, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2009, and 2014. (FACES 2014 is entered as NCT03705377). It includes nationally representative samples of Head Start programs and centers, classrooms, children and their families. Data from surveys of Head Start program and center directors, classroom teachers, and parents provide descriptive information about program policies and practices, classroom activities, and the background and experiences of Head Start staff and families. Children in the study participate in a direct assessment that provides a rich picture of their school readiness skills at different time points.
FACES 2019 extends a previously conducted data collection to a new sample of Head Start programs, families, and children. As with previous rounds, FACES 2019 collects information from a national probability sample of Head Start programs to learn what progress Head Start has made toward meeting program performance goals.
The goals of FACES 2019 are to describe: (1) the characteristics of Head Start classrooms, programs, and staff for specific program years; (2) the changes or trends in the characteristics of classrooms, programs, and staff over time; (3) the school readiness skills and family characteristics of children who participate in Head Start during specific program years; (4) the changes or trends in children's outcomes and family characteristics over time; and (5) the factors or characteristics at multiple levels that predict differences in children's outcomes. Originally, FACES 2019 also sought to observe Head Start classroom quality but was unable to do so, with classroom observations cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Other
- 时间视角
- Cross Sectional
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 2 Years 至 —（Child, Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •the Head Start programs participating in FACES 2019 were a probability sample selected from among 3,400 study-eligible programs on the 2017-2018 Head Start Program Information Report (PIR). To be eligible for the study, a program had to be:
- •In one of the 50 states or the District of Columbia
- •Providing services directly to children ages 3 to 5
- •The Head Start Program Performance Standards require that children turn 3 by date used to determine eligibility for public school in the community in which the Head Start program is located. Therefore, some study children were 2 years old at the time of sampling if sampling occurred before the date used for public school eligibility.
- •Not be in imminent danger of losing its grantee status. Probability samples of centers were selected within each program, classrooms within each center (within those classrooms, eligible classrooms needed to have at least one Head Start child enrolled) and children within each classroom. Teachers associated with selected classrooms were included in the study with certainty, as were parents associated with selected children.
排除标准
- •American Indian and Alaska Native Head Start programs (Region XI) or Migrant and Seasonal Worker Head Start programs (Region XII) were not eligible. Other ACF studies (AI/AN FACES-NCT040046965 and MSHS-NCT03116243) focus on those programs.
结局指标
主要结局
Language-Spanish receptive vocabulary
时间窗: September to December 2019
Indicators of language were assessed during week-long site visits using Receptive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test - Fourth Edition (Spanish-Bilingual Edition; ROWPVT-4:SBE). Please see Martin 2012b for more information on the scores and technical properties.
Literacy-early writing
时间窗: September to December 2019
Indicators of literacy were assessed during week-long site visits using Spelling Test from Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Achievement-Fourth Edition. Please see Schrank et al. 2014 and Woodcock et al. 2004 for more information on the scores and technical properties.
Children's physical health
时间窗: September to December 2019
Indicators of physical well-being were assessed by weighing (using kilograms) and measuring children's height (using centimeters), and combining these measurements to calculate Body Mass Index (BMI) in in kg/m\^2.
General health status
时间窗: September to December 2019
Indicators of physical well-being were assessed by parent report to a survey item on if child's health is excellent, very good, good, fair, or poor
Literacy-Letter word knowledge
时间窗: September to December 2019
Indicators of literacy were assessed during week-long site visits using Letter-Word Identification Test from Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Achievement-Fourth Edition. Please see Schrank et al. 2014 and Woodcock et al. 2004 for more information on the scores and technical properties.
Executive function
时间窗: September to December 2019
Indicators of executive function were assessed by the Minnesota Executive Function Scale (MEFS). The MEFS is a standardized and adaptive assessment administered on a touch-screen tablet with child-friendly graphics, avatars, and child-directed instructions. The MEFS provides an objective assessment of children's self-regulation, particularly cognitive flexibility, working memory, and inhibitory control. See Carlson and Zelazo 2014 for more information on the task.
Social-emotional development
时间窗: September to December 2019, April-July 2020
Indicators of social-emotional development were assessed using teacher report of several items on children's positive and problem behaviors. Please see the FACES 2014 User's Manual (Kopack Klein et al. 2017) for more information on the scores and technical information.
Social-emotional development - Approaches to learning
时间窗: September to December 2019, April-July 2020
Indicators of social-emotional development were assessed using teacher report of approaches to learning using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study - Kindergarten Class of 1998 (ECLS-K). The items assess a child's motivation, attention, organization, persistence, and independence in learning. Please see U.S. Department of Education 2002 for more information on the scores and technical properties.
Parents' depressive symptoms
时间窗: September to December 2019, March-July 2020
Parents' levels of depressive symptoms were measured using the short form of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression Scale (CES-D). Please see Radloff 1977 for more information.
English proficiency
时间窗: September to December 2019
Children's English language proficiency were assessed during week-long site visits using Preschool Language Assessment Survey (preLAS 2000): Simon Says and Art Show. See Duncan and DeAvila for more information on the scores and technical properties.
Mathematics
时间窗: September to December 2019
Indicators of mathematics were assessed during week-long site visits using the Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Achievement-Fourth Edition/Batería III Woodcock-Muñoz (Applied Problems Test). Please see Schrank et al. 2014 and Woodcock et al. 2004 for more information on the scores and technical properties.
Language-English receptive vocabulary
时间窗: September to December 2019
Indicators of language were assessed during week-long site visits using Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Fifth Edition (PPVT-5). See Dunn 2019 for more information on the scores and technical properties.
Literacy-Letter sounds knowledge
时间窗: September to December 2019
Indicators of literacy were assessed during week-long site visits using ECLS-B Letter Sounds. Please see Snow et al. 2007 for more information on the scores and technical properties
Social-emotional development-cognitive/social behaviors
时间窗: September to December 2019
Indicators of social-emotional development were assessed using assessor report children's cognitive/social behaviors during the assessment time, using the Leiter International Performance Scale-Third Edition Examiner Rating Scale. The Leiter comprises eight subscales that examine children's approach to the assessments, their engagement with the materials, and their ability to attend to and regulate their physical and emotional responses during the assessment tasks. Please see Roid et al. 2013 for more information on the scores and technical properties.
Teachers' depressive symptoms
时间窗: March-July 2020
Teachers' levels of depressive symptoms were measured using the short form of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression Scale (CES-D). Please see Radloff 1977 for more information.
Language-Expressive vocabulary
时间窗: September to December 2019
Indicators of language were assessed during week-long site visits using Expressive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test-Fourth Edition (EOWPVT-4 or EOWPVT-4 Spanish-Bilingual Edition). See Martin and Brownell 2010 and Martin 2012a for more information on the scores and technical properties.
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Sara Bernstein
Principal Researcher
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.