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Data Products ECLS-K Longitudinal Kindergarten–Third-Grade Public-Use Data File and Electronic Code Book The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998–99 (ECLS-K), is following a nationally representative sample of children from kindergarten through fifth grade, collecting information on their home and academic environments, opportunities, and achievements. During the 1998–99 school year, this NCES-sponsored study collected two waves of base-year data on over 20,000 kindergartners from a wide variety of public and private kindergarten programs and from diverse racial/ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. Two more waves of data were collected in the fall and spring of the 1999–2000 school year when most of the base-year children were in first grade, and a fifth wave of data was collected in the spring of the 2001–02 school year when most of the sampled children were in third grade. This CD-ROM contains kindergarten, first-, and third-grade public-use data from the ECLS-K. The CD-ROM contains an electronic code book (ECB), data files, and survey and ECB documentation for the first five waves of the ECLS-K. This data file and ECB will be most useful for researchers interested in changes in children’s experiences and achievement across school years. Researchers interested in conducting cross-sectional or within-grade analyses should use the separate base-year (kindergarten), first-grade, and third-grade data files and ECBs.
ECLS-K Third-Grade Public-Use Data File and Electronic Code Book The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998–99 (ECLS-K), is following a nationally representative sample of children from kindergarten through fifth grade, measuring their home and academic environments, opportunities, and achievements. During the 1998–99 school year, this NCES-sponsored study collected two waves of base-year data on over 20,000 kindergartners from a wide variety of public and private kindergarten programs and from diverse racial/ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. Two more waves of data were collected in the fall and spring of the 1999–2000 school year when most of the base-year children were in first grade, and a fifth wave of data was collected in the spring of the 2001–02 school year when most of the sampled children were in third grade. This CD-ROM contains third-grade public-use data from the ECLS-K. All data collected from the sampled children, and their parents, teachers, and schools, are included. In addition to the data file, the CD-ROM contains an electronic code book (ECB) and survey and ECB documentation.
Parent and Family Involvement in Education Survey (PFI) Data File From the National Household Education Surveys Program of 2003 The National Household Education Surveys Program (NHES) provides descriptive data on the educational activities of the U.S. population and offers researchers, educators, and policymakers a variety of statistics on the condition of education in the United States. The NHES comprised two surveys in 2003—Adult Education for Work-Related Reasons (AEWR) and Parent and Family Involvement in Education (PFI). This data file contains information collected through PFI. The data file contains information about students in kindergarten through 12th grade, and focuses on parental and family involvement in their education. Questions were asked about parental and family involvement in students’ schools, and about educational activities students engaged in with their parents and families outside of school. The data file contains approximately 12,500 cases. The data can be downloaded from the NCES Electronic Catalog (http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2004105) in SPSS, SAS, and STATA formats.
Adult Education for Work-Related Reasons Survey Data File of the National Household Education Surveys Program of 2003 The National Household Education Surveys Program (NHES) provides descriptive data on the educational activities of the U.S. population and offers researchers, educators, and policymakers a wide variety of statistics on the condition of education in the United States. The NHES comprised two surveys in 2003—Adult Education for Work-Related Reasons (AEWR) and Parent and Family Involvement in Education (PFI). This data file contains information collected through AEWR. Approximately 12,700 adults were interviewed about the types of training they had taken in the last 12 months for work-related reasons. Data were collected about participation in college and university degree or certificate programs taken for work-related reasons; postsecondary vocational/technical diploma or degree programs taken for work-related reasons; apprenticeships; work-related courses; and work-related informal learning. In addition, the survey explored factors associated with participation or nonparticipation in these activities. The data can be downloaded from the NCES Electronic Catalog (http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2004106) in SPSS, SAS, and STATA formats.
National Household Education Surveys Program of 2001–03: Electronic Codebook and Data Files The National Household Education Surveys Program (NHES) provides descriptive data on the educational activities of the U.S. population and offers researchers, educators, and policymakers a wide variety of statistics on the condition of education in the United States. In 2001, the NHES comprised three surveys—the Adult Education and Lifelong Learning Survey, the Before- and After-School Programs and Activities Survey, and the Early Childhood Program Participation Survey. In 2003, the NHES comprised two surveys—the Parent and Family Involvement in Education Survey and the Adult Education for Work-Related Reasons Survey. The data, data documentation, and software to help users search through and convert the data into SPSS, SAS, or STATA files are available on CD-ROM. The data and documentation needed to set up the data files can be downloaded directly from the NCES Electronic Cata-log (http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2004100).
Data File: State Library Agencies Survey: Fiscal Year 2003 The State Library Agencies (StLA) Survey is conducted annually by NCES as a cooperative effort with the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies, the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, and the U.S. Census Bureau. The StLA Survey provides state and federal policymakers, researchers, and other interested users with descriptive information about state library agencies in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The StLA Survey for fiscal year 2003, the 10th in the series, collected data on 339 items, including state library agency identification, governance, public service hours, service outlets, collections, library service transactions, library development transactions, services to other libraries in the state, allied operations, staff, income, expenditures, and electronic services and information. The StLA Survey file is available in both MS-Access and ASCII formats. The data and related documentation can be downloaded from the NCES Electronic Catalog.
Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2001 National Data File PIRLS is a large international comparative study of the reading literacy of young students. It focuses on the achievement and reading experiences of children in 35 countries in grades equivalent to fourth grade in the United States. The study includes a written test of reading comprehension and a series of questionnaires focusing on the factors associated with the development of reading literacy. PIRLS 2001 was the first in a planned 5-year cycle of international trend studies in reading literacy. This CD-ROM contains PIRLS 2001 public-use data for the United States, in ASCII format. These files can easily generate SPSS or SAS code. The CD-ROM also contains a user’s guide and an electronic codebook.
Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2000 Data File Begun in 2000, PISA is an assessment that focuses on 15-year-olds’ capabilities in reading, mathematics, and science literacy. In the United States, this age corresponds largely to grade 9 and 10 students. PISA also includes measures of general or cross-curricular competencies such as learning strategies. PISA emphasizes skills that students have acquired as they near the end of mandatory schooling. Currently administered every 3 years, PISA 2000 focused on reading literacy, PISA 2003 focused on mathematics literacy, and in 2006, PISA will focus on science literacy. This CD-ROM contains PISA 2000 public-use data for the United States, in ASCII format. It also contains a user’s guide and electronic codebook.
Other Publications User’s Manual for the ECLS-K Third-Grade Public-Use Data File and Electronic Code Book National Center for Education Statistics This user’s manual provides guidance and documentation for users of the third-grade public-use data file and electronic code book for the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998–99 (ECLS-K). The user’s manual begins with an overview of the ECLS-K study, which follows a nationally representative cohort of children from kindergarten through fifth grade. The ECLS-K focuses on children’s early school experiences, and is a multisource, multimethod study that includes interviews with parents; the collection of data from principals, teachers, and student record abstracts; and direct child assessments. Subsequent chapters in the user’s manual provide details on the instruments and measures used, the sample design, weighting procedures, response rates, data collection and processing procedures, the structure of the data file, and the installation and use of the electronic code book. This user’s manual is also available on the CD-ROM that contains the ECLS-K third-grade data file and electronic code book (NCES 2004–002).
National Household Education Surveys of 2003: Data File User’s Manual, Volumes I–III Mary Hagedorn, Jill Montaquila, Nancy Vaden-Kiernan, Kwang Kim, and Christopher Chapman The National Household Education Surveys Program (NHES) encompasses a number of household telephone surveys designed to address a wide range of education-related issues. This user’s manual provides documentation and guidance for users of the public-use data files for the 2003 Parent and Family Involvement in Education Survey (PFI-NHES:2003) and Adult Education for Work-Related Reasons Survey (AEWR-NHES:2003). This user’s manual is composed of three volumes. Volume I includes information about the purposes of the study, the data collection instruments, the sample design, and data collection and data processing procedures. Appendixes to volume I contain the data collection instruments and a chart summarizing weighting and sample variance estimation variables for all NHES surveys. Volumes II and III of the manual each address one data file, the PFI-NHES:2003 and AEWR-NHES:2003, respectively. They each contain a guide to the data file; a discussion of data considerations and anomalies; and, in appendixes, the file layout, derived variable specifications, and the codebook for the file.
William J. Fowler, Jr. (editor) Developments in School Finance: 2003 is the eighth education finance publication produced from the annual NCES Summer Data Conference. Each year, state department of education policymakers, fiscal analysts, and fiscal data providers attend the conference for fiscal training sessions and presentations by invited experts on developments in the field of education finance. This publication contains seven of the papers presented at the July 2003 conference. Discussions and presentations dealt with topics such as the effects of salary and working conditions on teacher turnover, determining the cost of improving student performance, and measuring school efficiency. Editor affiliation: W.J. Fowler, Jr., NCES.
Training and Funding Opportunities NCES is offering a series of advanced-studies seminars on the analysis of the following NCES databases in summer 2005:
These seminars are designed for researchers in academic communities and other research communities (e.g., federal agencies, research organizations, and think tanks that are interested in quantitative studies). Each multiday seminar is held at the Academy for Educational Development in Washington, DC, and covers several topics, including the nature and content of the database, computer software for accessing and analyzing the data, and funding opportunities. Seminar activities include lectures, illustrations, demonstrations, and hands-on practice. At the end of each seminar, participants are expected to make a brief presentation describing their analyses and findings.
Jointly funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), NCES, and the Institute of Education Sciences, this training and research program is administered by the American Educational Research Association (AERA). The program has four major elements: a research grants program, a dissertation grants program, a fellows program, and a training institute. The program is intended to enhance the capability of the U.S. research community to use large-scale datasets, specifically those of the NSF and NCES, to conduct studies that are relevant to educational policy and practice, and to strengthen communications between the educational research community and government staff. Applications for this program may be submitted at any time. The application review board meets three times per year. The following are examples of grants recently awarded under the program: Research Grants
Dissertation Grants
The NAEP Secondary Analysis Grant Program The NAEP Secondary Analysis Grant Program was developed to encourage education researchers to conduct secondary analysis studies using data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and the NAEP High School Transcript Studies. This program is open to all public or private organizations and consortia of organizations. The program is typically announced annually, in the late fall, in the Federal Register. Grants awarded under this program run from 12 to 18 months and awards range from $15,000 to $100,000. The following grants were awarded for fiscal year 2004:
The Association for Institutional Research (AIR), with support from NCES and the National Science Foundation (NSF), has developed a grants program titled Improving Institutional Research in Postsecondary Educational Institutions. The goals of this program are to provide professional development opportunities to doctoral students, institutional researchers, educators, and administrators, and to foster the use of federal databases for institutional research in postsecondary education. The program has the following four major components:
Calls for proposals go out in the spring, and proposals are normally accepted through June 30 for work starting no later than September 1 of each year. Following are grants awarded for fiscal year 2004:
The National Postsecondary Education Cooperative (NPEC) and the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) have developed a focused grant program to fund research and studies to increase understanding and knowledge in a specific issue area that has been identified by the NPEC Executive Committee as critically important to the postsecondary education community. This year the focus is on student success in postsecondary education. Proposals are due January 15 of each year. In 2004, NPEC and AIR made seven 1-year grant awards ranging up to $15,000 for dissertation work and up to $30,000 for other activities. Grant recipients will make a presentation of their work at NPEC’s national conference in 2006. Travel to the conference will be paid for by NPEC. Following are grants awarded for fiscal year 2004:
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