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Title: Patterning of Child Assessment Completion Rates in the NLSY: 1986-1996
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Mott, Frank L. |
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Patterning of Child Assessment Completion Rates in the NLSY: 1986-1996 Working Paper, Center for Human Resource Research, The Ohio State University, November 1998. Also: http://www.nlsinfo.org/usersvc/Child-Young-Adult/Mott-PatterningChildAssessCompletionRates98.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Center for Human Resource Research Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Data Quality/Consistency; Demography; Family Environment; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Tests and Testing INTRODUCTION: Since 1986, with the support of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), all the children of the interviewed female respondents in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79) have biennially completed a varies of cognitive and socio-emotional assessments. (See the brief bibliography at the end of this document for several publications that describe both the NLSY main and Child data in some detail). To date, several hundred research papers have been completed that examine connections between the children's family environment and how they performed on these tests. As is detailed below, in many instances, children have been repeatedly given the same assessments. In some instances, the children are directly assessed, whereas in other instances, information about the children is collected directly from the mothers. Finally, beginning in 1994, much of the Child data collection changed from a paper and pencil mode to computer assisted personal interviews. Additionally, at various times over the decade, funds available for the Child data collection was more constrained then at other times This evaluation will attempt to clarify the degree to which these issues have impacted on the quality of the Child Assessment data collection. EVALUATION PROCEDURES: In this paper, we examine the patterning of completion rates on selected NLSY Child Assessments over the 1986 to 1996 period. We focus in particular on three assessments, the PIAT, Mathematics and Reading Tests, and the Behavior Problems scale. These three assessments were chosen for specific reasons. First, they are assessments that arc completed by age-eligible children in all the years in which they are eligible. It was therefore possible to explore attrition patterns for the same children for a series of consecutive assessment rounds. With respect to the Behavior Problems scale, all children age four and over (age 4 through 14 in 1994 and 1986) are eligible for thi s mother-completed assessment. The mother is asked a series of 28 questions about her child s behavior, and records her choices in a paper instrument. The PIAT assessments have been administered biennially to all children age 5 and over (5 through 11 beginning in 1994) in all the survey years they were age-eligible. Thus, for most children, we have multiple survey points that they were eligible to have the assessments administered permitting a careful longitudinal examination of the extent to which completion patterns for the same children arc predictable on the basis of demographic priors and prior completion patterns. |
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Bibliography Citation
Mott, Frank L. "Patterning of Child Assessment Completion Rates in the NLSY: 1986-1996." Working Paper, Center for Human Resource Research, The Ohio State University, November 1998. |