Measures
The study is collecting child- and family-level data from
children in the child welfare system, their biological parents, caregivers,
teachers, and caseworkers, as well as from administrative records. Face-to-face
interviews or assessments will be conducted at baseline and at the 18-month
follow-up with children, parents and non-parent caregivers; telephone
interviews will be used to collect interim services data. Data on school
engagement and performance will be obtained through questionnaires sent
to teachers. Agency and system-level data will be collected from caseworkers,
agency administrators, and the States.
During the first months of the study, an instrument design
team with members from the child welfare research and policy communities
determined the data to be collected and how to measure child and family
functioning and well-being, service needs and utilization, and agency-
and system-level factors that are likely to be related to child and
family outcomes. Child outcomes of interest include health and physical
well-being, cognitive and school performance, mental health, behavior
problems, and social functioning and relationships. In selecting measures,
the team considered how outcomes are related to policy decisions and
included measures of mediating or moderating variables that are most
likely to influence outcomes. Measures take into account participating
children's varying developmental levels and cultural and linguistic
diversity. Additionally, the measures have been selected to maximize
the continuity of measurement over the study period and beyond, to be
appropriate for use by lay interviewers in large-scale surveys and,
where possible, to allow comparison with findings from other relevant
large-scale surveys.
October 2003 |
|
|
|
- Child, Family, and Caseworker Constructs,
Their Rationale and the Source in NSCAW Data Collection
|
HTML
/ PDF
(191kb) |
- Overview of NSCAW Child Instrument
|
HTML
/ PDF
(346kb) |
- Overview of NSCAW Current Caregiver Instrument Module
|
HTML
/ PDF
(287kb) |
- Overview of NSCAW Teacher Survey Instrument
|
HTML
/ PDF
(153kb) |
- Overview of NSCAW Investigative Caseworker Instrument Module
|
HTML
/ PDF
(219kb) |
- Overview of NSCAW Services Caseworker Instrument
|
HTML
/ PDF
(223kb) |
CORE HOME | NEWS & EVENTS | ONGOING RESEARCH | PUBLICATIONS & REPORTS | QUESTIONS | ABOUT US
This page was last updated on
Sunday, 07 Nov 2004 08:24:12 EST
.
|