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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"ECLS-K"”.
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INVESTIGATING THE ASSOCIATION OF PARENTAL INFLUENCE AND CHILDREN'S SCHOOL READINESS AND EARLY ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT: AN ANALYSIS USING EARLY CHILDHOOD LONGITUDINAL STUDY - KINDERGARTEN (ECLS-K)
… Childhood Longitudinal Study - Kindergarten (ECLS-K) First Grade Data to investigate the relationship between parental academic beliefs and parenting behaviors and its association with predicting children's kindergarten readiness (spring kindergarten cognitive and social development assessment …
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Mathematics Performance in Public and Catholic Elementary Schools: Explaining the Disparity
… possible explanations for this using the ECLS-K dataset. Specifically, this study determines how public and Catholic elementary schools differ in several areas including school or class size, school climate, autonomy, parental involvement, teacher characteristics, and teaching practices. …
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The Impact of Early Childhood Education Upon the Black-White Achievement Gap
… Study--Kindergarten Class of 1998-1999 (ECLS-K) kindergarten and first-grade data sets were utilized to examine mathematics and reading performance in relation to child care arrangements prior to kindergarten.</p><p> Multiple regression analyses provided evidence of the positive and …
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The consequences of ignoring assessment date heterogeneity within waves for latent growth models
… Childhood Longitudinal Study for Kindergarten (ECLS -- K). By comparing latent growth change and prediction models for time invariant and time varying latent growth models, we found some changes in parameter estimates, particularly in the variance and residual variance in the linear effect. We …
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The Influence of Parenting On Adolescent Bmi and Fruit and Vegetable Consumption
… Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten class (ECLS-K). Linear regression models were created to analyze change in BMI z-scores, and change in fruit and vegetable consumption between fifth and eighth-grade. Five independent parenting variables were considered: school involvement, rules for …
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EXAMINING LONGITUDINAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN TEACHER PREPARATION AND MATHEMATICS ACHIEVEMENT OF KINDERGARTEN AND FIRST GRADE STUDENTS WITH IEPS THROUGH THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR EDUCATION STATISTICS' EARLY CHILDHOOD LONGITUDINAL STUDY - KINDERGARTEN COHORT
… Longitudinal Study - Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K). Achievement constructs were incorporated cognitive fall and spring math achievement assessments and math rating scales. Teacher quality constructs were comprised of coursework and experience indicators. Multiple covariate indicators …
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A Hierarchical Examination of the Immigrant Achievement Gap: The Additional Explanatory Power of Nationality and Educational Selectivity Over Traditional Explorations of Race and Socioeconomic Status
… Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort of 1998 (ECLS-K) from kindergarten to eighth grade (<em>N</em> = 6,861). Findings indicated that immigrant students who had been in the United States since at least their preschool years had lower math and reading achievement than nonimmigrants when they …
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Parental Time or Money: What Matters More for Children's School Success?
… Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K; n=20,582). Structural equation modeling is used to examine the extent to which these parental investments mediate associations between markers of SES and children's reading and math achievement. Models also test for moderation of the …
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Family Socioeconomic Status And Children's Reading Ability: The Buffering Effect Of Parental Social Support
… Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K), a large-scale, nationally representative sample of children attending kindergarten in the United States in the fall of the 1998-1999 academic year and their families, teachers, and schools. As expected, family SES and the availability of …
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The relations among school status variables, teacher academic and arts curricular emphases, and student academic achievement in grades 1, 3, and 5
… Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-1999 (ECLS-K) data were used to explore the curricular emphasis in schools of varying socioeconomic status in both public and private schools. Data collected between 1998 and 2003 were used in the secondary analyses of curricular emphasis in nine …
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The Effect of Social Skills on Academic Achievement of Linguistically Diverse Elementary Students: Concurrent and Longitudinal Analysis
… Study – Kindergarten Class of 1998-1999 (ECLS-K), this study first investigated the concurrent association between social skills and the academic achievement of fifth-grade students, and the profiles of their social skills during the first six years of schooling to identify the relative …
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Essays on childhood obesity
… Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (ECLS-K). In this essay I report three new findings. First, family income and childhood obesity are negatively correlated overall but among children from very low-income families they are positively correlated. Second, the negative association …
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Modeling Autocorrelation and Sample Weights in Panel Data: A Monte Carlo Simulation Study
… Childhood Longitudinal Study for Kindergartens (ECLS-K) data set which is a panel data set having complex sample design features. The results indicate that autocorrelative processes and weights interact with each other as sources of error to a statistically significant degree. Accounting for just …
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What we learn in school: Cognitive and non-cognitive skills in the educational production function
… controls for the clustered structure of the ECLS-K dataset, indicate that some the effects of certain school level characteristics are statistically significant for the production of reading achievement. These variables are type of school (Catholic school versus public) or class size (medium …
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Who chooses? A sociological portrait of families active in school choice in urban areas in the U.S.
… The 2010-11 Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS-K: 2011) has extensive surveys of parents, including questions about school choice, family structure, parenting behaviors, parent-child relationships, previous educational consumption decisions, and detailed socioeconomic data. After …