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Building Their Futures:
How Early Head Start Programs Are Enhancing the Lives of Infants and Toddlers in Low-Income Families

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APPENDIX A : Contributions of Early Head Start Programs and Local Research Teams to the Interim Report Findings

Introduction

Atwater, Jane, Judith Carta, Jean Ann Summers, and Martha Staker. "Relationships Between Services and Child Outcomes in an Urban Early Head Start Program"

Ayoub, Catherine, Barbara Alexander Pan, and Valeria Rocha. "Entry Characteristics of Rural Families with Young Children: Assessment of Risk and Resilience"

Collins, Tracy, and Catherine Ayoub. "Voices of Home Visitors in One Early Head Start Program"

Cruzado-Guerrero, Judith, and Judith Carta. "Factors Affecting Language Outcomes of Young Children in Bilingual Environments"

Lee, Seung-yeon, Sharon Hoerr, and Rachel Schiffman. "Diet Quality by Food Intake and Meals in Limited Income Mother-Infant Pairs in Jackson, Michigan"

Farber, Michaela, Shavaun Wall, and Harriet Liebow. "Diversity of Early Head Start Families and Program Services"

Farber, Michaela, Shavaun Wall, and Harriet Liebow. "Early Head Start Participation and Mothers' Perceptions of Parenting Role Competence"

Pan, Barbara Alexander, Catherine Snow, and Leah Bratton. "Parenting Values and Emotional Health, Engagement in Research and Program, and Parent-Child Communication"

Peterson, Carla A., Susan L. McBride, Gayle L. Luze, and Marcia Macedo. "An Inside Look at Home Visting"

Readout, Kathie. "The Challenges of Early Head Start Serving Rural Areas: Central Iowa"

Roggman, L.A., L.K Boyce, and G.A. Cook. "Keeping Kids on Track: Interactive Effects of Age and Intervention"

Roggman, L.A., L.K. Boyce, G.A. Cook, and J. Cook. "Getting Dads Involved:Predictors of Father Involvement in Early Head Start and with Their Children"

Roggman, L., L.K. Boyce, G.A. Cook, and V.K Jump. "Inside Home Visits:A Collaborative Look at Process and Quality"

Ryan, Rebecca, and Barbara Alexander Pan. "Family Goals and Engagement with the Program: Perspectives of Two Teenage Mothers"

Shannon, Jacqueline, Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda, Kevin London, Mark Spellmann, and Natasha Cabrera. "Beyond Rough and Tumble: Fathering and Cognitive Development in 24-Month-Olds"

Spicer, Paul, Carol McAllister, and Robert Emde. "Ethnography and the Early Head Start Evaluation: Contributions from Local Research to Understanding Program Processes"

Spieker, Susan, and Claire Hamilton. "Adult Attachment Status of Early Head Start Participants"

Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S., Jacqueline Shannon, and Mark Spellmann. "Low-Income Adolescent Mothers' Knowledge About Domains of Child Development"

Tullis, JoEllen and Karen Lamp. "Venice Family Clinic Children First Program Health Services Prove Successful"

APPENDIX B : Data Collection, Sources of Nonresponse, and Father Study Response Rates

APPENDIX C : Outcome Measures, Psychometrics, and Implementation Measures

This Appendix provides supplementary information on measures used in the national evaluation for the impact and implementation analyses. We include:

C.1 Selection of Child and Family Measures

C.2 Constructs Used in the Analysis: Psychometric Properties

C.3 Construction of Timelines

C.4 Tables of Nonmissing Values for Constructs

C.5 Implementation Measures

APPENDIX D : Analytic Issues and Details

This Appendix describes details of analyses conducted to test a number of assumptions underlying the analytic approach taken in our assessment of Early Head Start's Impacts on children and families. The specific issues that we investigated and report here are:

D.1 Comparing the Baseline Characteristics of Program and Control Group Members

D.2 Assessing and Correcting for the Effects of Nonresponse to the Early Head Start Interviews and Assessments

D.3 Estimating Impacts per Participant

D.4 Verifying Findings by Program Approach and Implementation Level

D.5 Assessing the Robustness of Study Findings

D.6 Estimating Impacts per Eligible Applicant

APPENDIX E : Supplemental Tables by Chapter

This Appendix presents Tables that contain additional data cited in Chapters II through VII. The Table numbers indicate which chapter they relate to, for example, Tables for chapter III are numbered E.III.1, E.III.2, and so forth. They are presented in the order in which they are referred to in the text of the main report.

APPENDIX E.II

APPENDIX E.III : Chapter III Tables

APPENDIX E.IV: Chapter IV Tables

APPENDIX E.V : Chapter V Tables

Table E.V.1: Impacts on Parenting Behavior at Age 2, by Program Approach in 1997

Table E.V.2: Impacts on Parenting Knowledge at Age 2, by Program Approach in 1997

Table E.V.3: Impacts on Parenting Behavior at Age 2, by Pattern of Implementation

Table E.V.4: Impacts on Parenting Knowledge at Age 2, by Pattern of Implementation

Table E.V.5: Impacts on Parenting Behavior at Age 2, by Pattern of Implementation of Child Development Services

Table E.V.6: Impacts on Parenting Knowledge at Age 2, by Pattern of Implementation of Child Development Services

Table E.V.7: Impacts on Parenting Behavior at Age 2, by Pattern of Implementation of Family Development Services

Table E.V.8: Impacts on Parenting Knowledge at Age 2, by Pattern of Implementation of Family Development Services

Table E.V.9: Impacts on Parenting Behavior at Age 2, by Work Requirements for Mothers Receiving Cash Assistance

Table E.V.10: Impacts on Parenting Knowledge at Age 2, by Work Requirements for Mothers Receiving Cash Assistance

APPENDIX E.VI : Chapter VI Tables

Table E.VI.1: Impacts on Self-Sufficiency, by Program Approach in 1997

Table E.VI.2: Impacts on Parent Health and Family Functioning at Age 2, by Program Approach in 1997

Table E.VI.3: Impacts on Self-Sufficiency, by Pattern of Implementation

Table E.VI.4: Impacts on Parent Health and Family Functioning and Age 2, by Pattern of Implementation

Table E.VI.5: Impacts on Self-Sufficiency, by Pattern of Implementation of Child Development Services

Table E.VI.6: Impacts on Parent Health and Family Functioning at Age 2, by Pattern of Implementation of Child Development Services

Table E.VI.7: Impacts on Self-Sufficiency, by Pattern of Implementation of Family Development Services

Table E.VI.8: Impacts on Parent Health and Family Functioning at Age 2, by Pattern of Implementation of Family Development Services

Table E.VI.9: Impacts on Self-Sufficiency, by Work Requirements for Mothers Receiving Cash Assistance

Table E.VI.10: Impacts on Parent Health and Family Functioning at Age 2, by Work Requirements for Mothers Receiving Cash Assistance

APPENDIX E.VII : Chapter VII Tables

Table E.VII.1: Impacts on Service Receipt During The First 16 Months, by Race/Ethnicity

Table E.VII.2: Impacts on Self-Sufficiency, by Race/Ethnicity

Table E.VII.3: Impacts on Child and Family Outcomes at Age 2, by Race/Ethnicity

Table E.VII.4: Impacts on Service Receipt During The First 16 Months, Child's Age at Enrollment

Table E.VII.5: Impacts on Self-Sufficiency, by Child's Age at Enrollment

Table E.VII.6: Impacts on Child and Family Outcomes at Age 2, by Age Of Child at Enrollment

Table E.VII.7: Impacts on Service Receipt During First 16 Months, by Age Of Mother at Child's Birth

Table E.VII.8: Impacts on Self-Sufficiency, by Age Of Mother at Child's Birth

Table E.VII.9: Impacts on Child and Family Outcomes at Age 2, by Age Of Mother at Child's Birth

Table E.VII.10: Impacts on Service Receipt During The First 16 Months, by Child's Birth Order

Table E.VII.11: Impacts on Self-Sufficiency, by Child's Birth Order

Table E.VII.12: Impacts on Child and Family Outcomes at Age 2, by Child's Birth Order

Table E.VII.13: Impacts on Service Receipt During The First 16 Months, by Child's Gender

Table E.VII.14: Impacts on Self-Sufficiency, by Child's Gender

Table E.VII.15: Impacts on Child and Family Outcomes at Age 2, by Child's Gender

Table E.VII.16: Impacts on Service Receipt During The First 16 Months, by Initial Receipt Of Welfare Cash Assistance

Table E.VII.17: Impacts on Self-Sufficiency, by Initial Receipt Of Welfare Cash Assistance

Table E.VII.18: Impacts on Child and Family Outcomes at Age 2, by Initial Receipt Of Welfare Cash Assistance

Table E.VII.19: Impacts on Service Receipt During The First 16 Months, by Primary Occupation

Table E.VII.20: Impacts on Self-Sufficiency, by Primary Occupation

Table E.VII.21 Impacts on Child and Family Outcomes at Age 2, by Primary Occupation

Table E.VII.22: Impacts on Service Receipt During The First 16 Months, by Highest Grade Completed

Table E.VII.23: Impacts on Self-Sufficiency, by Highest Grade Completed

Table E.VII.24: Impacts on Child and Family Outcomes at Age 2, by Highest Grade Completed

Table E.VII.25: Impacts on Service Receipt During The First 16 Months, by Initial Living Arrangements

Table E.VII.26: Impacts on Self-Sufficiency, by Initial Living Arrangements

Table E.VII.27: Impacts on Child and Family Outcomes at Age 2, by Initial Living Arrangements

Table E.VII.28: Impacts on Service Receipt During The First 16 Months, by Number Of Maternal Risk Factors

Table E.VII.29: Impacts on Self-Sufficiency, by Number Of Risk Factors

Table E.VII.30: Impacts on Child and Family Outcomes at Age 2, by Number Of Risk Factors

Table E.VII.31: Family Characteristics, by Site

Table E.VII.32: Characteristics Of Families In Key Program Subgroups

APPENDIX F



 

 

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