Early Childhood Longitudinal Program (ECLS), Including Arts and Cultural Variables (ICPSR 37235)
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United States Department of Education. National Center for Education Statistics
This is an external resource to which ICPSR links as a courtesy. These data are not available from ICPSR. Users should consult the data owners (via Early Childhood Longitudinal Program (ECLS), Including Arts and Cultural Variables) directly for details on obtaining these resources.
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The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS) program includes three longitudinal studies that examine child development, school readiness, and early school experiences, including arts participation. The birth cohort of the ECLS-B is a sample of children born in 2001 and followed from birth through kindergarten entry. The kindergarten class of 1998-99 cohort is a sample of children followed from kindergarten through the eighth grade. The kindergarten class of 2010-11 cohort is following a sample of children from kindergarten through the fifth grade.
The ECLS program provides national data on children's status at birth and at various points thereafter; children's transitions to nonparental care, early education programs, and school; and children's experiences and growth through the eighth grade. The ECLS program also provides data to analyze the relationships among a wide range of family, school, community, and individual variables with children's development, early learning, and performance in school.
NADAC data users can find variables about children's participation in the arts in the ECLS studies. Respondents were asked questions about the child's participation in the arts, such as whether they saw a play, concert, or show; visited an art museum or historical site; or went to a library and bookstore. Respondents were questioned about children's arts education, including whether the child took art, music, dance, or drama classes or lessons; participated in performing arts programs; or used technology to learn arts-related skills. Questions were also asked about arts-related content in the teachers' curriculum, the teachers' participation in arts activities, and the parents' participation in arts activities.
Restricted-use and public-use files containing data from the kindergarten, first-grade, second-grade, third-grade, and fourth-grade rounds of data collection for the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 2010-11 (ECLS-K:2011) are available. Please note that while the ECLS-K:2011 was designed to allow for cross-cohort comparisons with the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (ECLS-K), the direct child cognitive assessment scores available on these files are not directly comparable to scores from the ECLS-K. Child assessment scores designed specifically for comparisons between the ECLS-K and ECLS-K:2011 cohorts are currently in development, with an anticipated release date to be determined. Data users can use data from the current data file release to compare the two cohorts in other ways, for example, to look at differences in demographic characteristics or the home, school, and classroom experiences of the two groups.
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For any questions about the arts variables in the ECLS data collections, please email ECLS staff at ecls@ed.gov.