Early Childhood Longitudinal Study [United States]: Kindergarten Class of 1998-1999, Third Grade

The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class
of 1998-1999 (ECLS-K) focuses on children's early school experiences
beginning with kindergarten through fifth grade. It is a nationally
representative sample that collects information from children, their
families, their teachers, and their schools. ECLS-K provides data
about the effects of a wide range of family, school, community, and
individual variables on children's development, early learning, and
early performance in school. This data collection contains the wave of
data collected in the spring of third grade (2002). The third-grade
data collection includes information about the diversity of the study
children, the schools they attended, and their academic progress in
the years following kindergarten. Other variables include child
gender, child race, family background, childcare, childcare
arrangements, food security, hours per week in child care,
socioeconomic status, household income, highest level of education for
parents and students, parents' employment status, teachers' evaluation
practice, and usefulness of different activities in the classroom.