NCES Early Childhood Longitudinal Studies (ECLS) Program Tables Library

Information about ECLSThe Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS) program provides important information about children's knowledge, skills, and development from birth through elementary school. For more than 20 years, the ECLS program has helped educators, families, researchers, and policymakers improve children's educational experiences.<br><br>The ECLS program includes four longitudinal studies that examine child development, school readiness, and early school experiences. However, the tables library only covers two of these studies. The kindergarten class of 1998–99 cohort is a sample of children followed from kindergarten through the eighth grade (ECLS-K). The kindergarten class of 2010–11 cohort is a sample of children followed from kindergarten through the fifth grade (ECLS-K:2011).<br>Data OrganizationEach table has an associated excel file, which is in a folder in the dataset (one folder per table).<br><br>In the root folder, there is a catalog csv that provides a crosswalk between the folder names and file names and the original table titles.<br><br>In addition to the tables, this project contains (1) user manuals for ECLS-K and ECLS-K:2011 from the NCES resource library, (2) questionnaires for ECLS-K and ECLS-K:2011 downloaded from the study website and (3) other reports and documentation related to the two studies from the NCES resource library.