Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES 2019)

NCT ID: NCT03971435

Last Updated: 2024-07-24

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 5593 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2019-09-02
• Study Completion Date: 2020-07-31

Brief Summary

For over two decades, the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) has been an invaluable source of information on the Head Start program and the children and families it serves. FACES 2019 extends a previously conducted data collection to a new sample of Head Start programs, families, and children. Mathematica and its partners, Juárez and Associates, Educational Testing Service, and consultants Margaret Burchinal and Martha Zaslow, developed instruments and data collection procedures to assess the school readiness skills of 2,260 children and survey their parents and Head Start teachers in fall 2019 and spring 2020 and conduct observations in Head Start classrooms and survey Head Start staff in spring 2020 and spring 2022. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, spring 2020 child assessments and classroom observations were canceled while surveys of parents and staff continued. The pandemic and a heightened interest in the Head Start workforce brought a shift in approach and focus to spring 2022 data collection activities. As a result, those activities are not described here and instead are listed under NCT06512740.

Detailed Description

The Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey 2019, or FACES 2019, is the seventh in a series of national studies of Head Start, with earlier studies conducted in 1997, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2009, and 2014. (FACES 2014 is entered as NCT03705377). It includes nationally representative samples of Head Start programs and centers, classrooms, children and their families. Data from surveys of Head Start program and center directors, classroom teachers, and parents provide descriptive information about program policies and practices, classroom activities, and the background and experiences of Head Start staff and families. Children in the study participate in a direct assessment that provides a rich picture of their school readiness skills at different time points.

FACES 2019 extends a previously conducted data collection to a new sample of Head Start programs, families, and children. As with previous rounds, FACES 2019 collects information from a national probability sample of Head Start programs to learn what progress Head Start has made toward meeting program performance goals.

The goals of FACES 2019 are to describe: (1) the characteristics of Head Start classrooms, programs, and staff for specific program years; (2) the changes or trends in the characteristics of classrooms, programs, and staff over time; (3) the school readiness skills and family characteristics of children who participate in Head Start during specific program years; (4) the changes or trends in children's outcomes and family characteristics over time; and (5) the factors or characteristics at multiple levels that predict differences in children's outcomes. Originally, FACES 2019 also sought to observe Head Start classroom quality but was unable to do so, with classroom observations cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Conditions

Head Start Participation

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: OTHER
• Study Time Perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL

Study Groups

Head Start children and families - 2019

children (2,260), parents (2,260), classrooms/teachers (590), program directors (165), center directors (318)

No interventions assigned to this group

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• In one of the 50 states or the District of Columbia
• Providing services directly to children ages 3 to 5
• The Head Start Program Performance Standards require that children turn 3 by date used to determine eligibility for public school in the community in which the Head Start program is located. Therefore, some study children were 2 years old at the time of sampling if sampling occurred before the date used for public school eligibility.
• Not be in imminent danger of losing its grantee status. Probability samples of centers were selected within each program, classrooms within each center (within those classrooms, eligible classrooms needed to have at least one Head Start child enrolled) and children within each classroom. Teachers associated with selected classrooms were included in the study with certainty, as were parents associated with selected children.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 2 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Department of Health and Human Services

FED

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Office of Planning, Research & Evaluation

FED

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Sara Bernstein

Principal Researcher

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Sara Bernstein, Ph.D.

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

Nikki Aikens, Ph.D.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

Louisa Tarullo, Ed.D.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

Locations

Mathematica Policy Research

Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States

Countries

United States

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Related Links

https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/project/head-start-family-and-child-experiences-survey-faces-1997-2022

To learn more about FACES and access reports/products, please visit the FACES ACF website.

Other Identifiers

50515A

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id