Understanding American Indian and Alaska Native Early Childhood Needs: The Potential of Existing Data. OPRE Report 2017-44

Autor/inn/en	Malone, Lizabeth; Knas, Emily; Bernstein, Sara; Read Feinberg, Lindsay
Institution	Administration for Children and Families (DHHS), Office of Planning, Research & Evaluation; Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Titel	Understanding American Indian and Alaska Native Early Childhood Needs: The Potential of Existing Data. OPRE Report 2017-44
Quelle	(2017), (158 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Quantitative Daten; American Indians; Alaska Natives; Early Childhood Education; Needs Assessment; Early Intervention; National Surveys; Young Children; Educational Policy; Preschool Education; At Risk Students; Data Analysis; Information Sources; Childhood Needs; Educational Needs + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? American Indian; Indianer; Inuit; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Bedarfsermittlung; Frühe Kindheit; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung; Auswertung; Information source; Informationsquelle; Childhood; needs; Kindheit; Bedürfnis; Educational need; Bildungsbedarf
Abstract	This report describes preliminary work in support of an early childhood needs assessment for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) children prenatal to age five. The report presents the process and findings from implementing Design One--describing the population of AI/AN children and families and their participation in early childhood services based on "existing data sources"--with a set of national survey and Administration for Children and Families (ACF) administrative data sources. Implementation of Design One followed three steps: (1) a review of six data sources to identify data elements addressing the key indicators; (2) a review of published information from the four of those data sources for which published information was available; and (3) secondary analysis of two of the data sources. Findings from the report include: (1) The selected data sources have the potential to address AI/AN Early Childhood Needs key indicators of policy and programmatic interest--with data items available on 62 of 87 key indicators across all 9 research questions; (2) Little information, however, has been published to date--17 of the 62 key indicators potentially available were found in published information (covering 7 research questions); (3) New analysis focusing on the key indicators can expand the extent of information known--analysis of the American Community Survey and Head Start Program Information Report addressed 43 key indicators from 8 of the 9 research questions; and (4) Use of existing data can present challenges in goodness of fit in how well existing data (collected for a different purpose and across different times) align to the key indicators and intent of the research question. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Administration for Children & Families. US Department of Health and Human Services, 370 L'Enfant Promenade SW, Washington, DC 20447. Web site: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01