Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B)

U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences NCES 2007?084

Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B)

Psychometric Report for the 2-Year Data Collection

Methodology Report

August 2007

Carol Andreassen Philip Fletcher

Westat

Jennifer Park

Project Officer National Center for Education Statistics

U.S. Department of Education Margaret Spellings Secretary

Institute of Education Sciences Grover J. Whitehurst Director

National Center for Education Statistics Mark Schneider Commissioner

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Suggested Citation: Andreassen, C., and Fletcher, P. (2007). Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS?B) Psychometric Report for the 2-Year Data Collection (NCES 2007?084). National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. Washington, DC.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Over the past 7 years, many individuals and organizations have contributed to the design and conduct of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B). While it is not possible to name all the individuals who have made significant contributions to this study, we would like to recognize some of those who played a critical role during the development and implementation phases of the ECLS-B.

First, we would like to thank all the children and their parents who participated the study thus far. The parents of these children invited us into their homes and allowed us to work with their children. We would also like to thank the more than 200 field staff and 16 field managers and supervisors who conducted the home visits during both national data collections and the several earlier field tests of the study design and instrumentation. Also, we would like to express our appreciation to the State Vital Registration and Statistics Executives who provided the sample of 2001 birth certificates on which the study is based.

We gratefully acknowledge Marian MacDorman of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) for all her efforts to make the ECLS-B a success. Her tireless work on the project's behalf to help gain the cooperation of the states and her review of the many sets of review documents submitted to the NCHS and state institutional review boards (IRBs) were invaluable.

Westat, under the direction of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), designed and conducted the 2-year wave of the study. NCES received day-to-day support from the Education Statistics Services Institute (ESSI), and American Institutes for Research (AIR). NCES would also like to thank Rick Dulaney and Ray Saunders of Westat for the leadership they provided to the programming, systems development, and data processing tasks associated with the study; Richard Hilpert of Westat for overseeing the field operations of the study; and Laura Branden of Westat for her tireless work with the NCHS and state IRBs.

The design of the child assessment battery also benefited from the participation of expert work groups. The design of the Bayley Short Form?Research Edition was guided by experts in child assessment and the Bayley Scales of Infant Development, Second Edition (BSID-II) in particular, and in Item Response Theory. These individuals included Don Rock and Judy Pollack of Educational Testing

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Service who provided Item Response Theory analysis expertise; Barbara Wasik of the Johns Hopkins University who advised on child assessment with low-socioeconomic status and language-minority children; and Kathleen Matula who had been involved in the restandardization of the BSID-II for The Psychological Corporation and who advised on item administration and scoring and training of field staff. John Kirkland of Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, and his colleagues, David Bimler and Andrew Drawneek, were vital to the creation of the TAS-45 and the development of the laptop application. Rachel Cohen (Administration on Children, Youth and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services), Jeanne Brooks Gunn and Christy Brady-Smith of Teachers College were consulted about the administration and coding of the Two Bags Task and generously provided a special coding training for Westat's trainers. In addition, Howard Hoffman (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health) worked with Philip Dale (University of Missouri) to provide the wordlists for the English and Spanish vocabulary assessments.

We also would like to acknowledge Jerry West, formerly of NCES and currently of Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., whose dedication and extraordinary efforts brought the ECLS-B into being, as well as Jennifer Park (NCES), Kristin Denton Flanagan (AIR), Jodi Jacobson Chernoff (AIR), and Sandy Eyster (AIR), whose efforts on the ECLS-B are reflected in the study instrumentation, data processing activities, and data products. In addition, the authors would like to thank Zeyu Xu, Steve Mistler, and Rob Stillwell of AIR, as well as Chris Chapman, Larry Ogle, Emmanuel Sikali, Ralph Lee, Val Plisko, and Marilyn Seastrom of NCES for their thoughtful reviews of this document.

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Sponsoring Agencies Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B)

National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education (ED) National Center for Health Statistics, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development National Institute on Aging National Institute of Mental Health National Institute of Nursing Research National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Administration on Children, Youth and Families, HHS Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS Office of Special Education Programs, ED Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, HHS Office of Indian Education, ED Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HHS Office of Minority Health, HHS

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