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National Studies
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Early Head Start Research and
Evalution Project: This study of 3000 families in 17 diverse
communities involves an implementation study of programs, an impact
study of child and family outcomes, local research and policy studies,
and continuous program improvement.
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Family and Child Experiences
Survey: This study collected data on a nationally representative
sample of 3,200 children and families in 40 Head Start programs
in order to describe the characteristics, experiences, and outcomes
for children and families in Head Start and after a year of kindergarten.
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Head Start Impact Study:
This Congressionally-mandated, longitudinal study of the impact
of Head Start will involve 5,000-6,000 three- and four-year-old
children from a stratified, national sample of grantees/delegate
agencies. Children in the study will be randomly assigned prior
to enrollment to either a treatment group (which receives Head Start
services) or a comparison group (which does not receive Head Start
services).
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ECLS Birth Cohort Head Start Substudy: This study will provide
detailed information on children's development, health, early care,
and education in a nationally representative sample of 12,000 children
born in 2001 who will be followed longitudinally from birth through
the end of first grade. Information on the ECLS study is available
at http://www.nces.ed.gov/ecls/.
ECLS Kindergarten Cohort Head Start Substudy: This longitudinal
study is of approximately 23,000 children nationwide who began kindergarten
in the fall of 1998 and will be assessed through the fifth grade.
An estimated 3,000 will be former Head Start children. Information on the ECLS study is available
at http://www.nces.ed.gov/ecls/.
Consortia/Research Partnerships
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Early Promotion and Intervention
Research Consortium: These grants, part of the Early Head Start
Mental Health Initiative, fund partnerships between academic researchers
and Early Head Start programs that are designed to create empirically
validated approaches to providing comprehensive mental health supports
for very young children and their families.
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Head Start Child Outcomes Research
Support (CORS): These grants fund partnerships between academic
researchers and Head Start programs that model improvement of local
programs through the use of child outcomes. The ultimate goals of
these partnerships are to promote school readiness in Head Start
children and to consider the feasibility of using local assessment
data for external accountability purposes.
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Head Start Quality Research Consortium
II (2001-2006): This new consortium will develop and test specific
program practices designed to promote school readiness of Head Start
children in the areas of literacy, social-emotional development,
parent involvement, curriculum, and assessment.
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Head Start Mental Health Research
Consortium (Head Start University Partnership): This research
develops and tests applications of theory-based research or state-of-the-art
techniques for the prevention, identification, and/or treatment
of children's mental health problems within a Head Start context.
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Head Start University Partners:
The partnership program supports research conducted by university
faculty members who form partnerships with Head Start or Early Head
Start programs in their communities.
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Head Start Graduate Student Research
Program: This discretionary funding supports research conducted
by graduate students in university settings who form partnerships
with Head Start or Early Head Start programs in their communities,
as a way of encouraging the conduct of research with Head Start
Populations.
Other Studies
Related Research Resources
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Advisory
Committee on Head Start Research & Evaluation: This Congressionally
mandated committee was established by the Secretary of Health and
Human Services in order to make recommendations for a study or studies
that provide a national analysis of the impact of Head Start.
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Program Performance
Measures for Head Start Programs Serving Infants and Toddlers:
A framework is presented that outlines intended goals for management
systems, services and outcomes for children and families in Head
Start programs serving infants and toddlers (Early Head Start and
Migrant Head Start). This framework is designed to support continuous
program improvement efforts of individual programs as well as at
the regional and national levels. Information is provided for programs
on creating a performance measurement plan, including guidelines
for choosing appropriate measures and detailed information on selected
instruments.
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Head
Start Bulletin, Issue No.74 (2002) "Why Research?":
The Head Start Bulletin is published six times a year by the Head
Start Bureau, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Department
of Health and Human Services. Issue No.74 (2002), titled "Why
Research?" contains helpful features, articles, and resources.
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Head Start's 7th National Research
Conference (June 28-July 1, 2004): This bi-annual research conference
brings together both practitioners and leading child development
researchers, including, but not limited to, researchers studying
Head Start children, families, staff, and programs.
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Head Start Data
Archive: This CORE project maintains datasets on Head Start
research and evaluation projects that have been submitted by project
principal investigators.
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Infant Mental Health:
This page provides information on efforts undertaken by the Head
Start Bureau to understand and address the mental health needs of
infants and toddlers, including information on the Infant Mental
Health Forum and action steps that emerged from the Forum.
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Program
Manager's Guide to Evaluation: This guide explains the program
evaluation process and provides background information on how to
use it successfully.
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