The fifth grade ECLS-K data file and PDF user’s guides have been added to the PRI ECLS SodaPop collection.

More documentation and the ECB program can be found on the ECLS-K Fifth Grade Public Use CD-ROM.

The PRI Data Archive has received a copy of the ECLS-K Fifth Grade Public Use Data File and Electronic Codebook on CD-ROM. The CD-ROM has been cataloged and is available for check-out from the computer lab in 806 Oswald Tower. The data and user’s guide will be made available via SodaPop.

Please note that users may order one free copy of the CD-ROM from Ed Pubs while supplies last.

This brief uses data from the ECLS-K of 1998-1999 to examine how often per week and how much time per day first-graders were instructed in subjects such as reading, mathematics, and science. The brief also focuses in more detail on students’ in-class work on reading and language arts. The major findings of the brief are that more than 90 percent of first-graders received daily instruction in reading and mathematics, while the most common length of time spent per day on reading is more than 90 minutes and on mathematics is between 31 and 60 minutes. The most common reading or language arts activities used in first grade classrooms were working on phonics and instruction in capitalization and punctuation.

This methodology report provides technical information about the development, design, and conduct of the fifth grade data collection of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (ECLS-K). Detailed information on the development of the instruments, sample design, data collection methods, data preparation and editing, response rates, and weighting and variance estimation is included.

The ECLS-K kindergarten through third grade longitudinal file is now available on SodaPop.

While attempting to prepare these data for SodaPop, a PRI programmer discovered that the extraction software was not working properly on any of the CD-ROMs in the PRI Data Archive collection. A new CD-ROM with a later publication date was obtained, but the same problem occurred. The programmer contacted the ECLS project and received program files to fix the extraction error. Please note, however, that these file have to be installed by someone with administrator privileges. As the majority of departmental machines do not allow users that privilege level, it is recommended that users work with the SodaPop version of the file (full SAS dataset access on /home/sas_data and \\paris\sas_data - see the ECLS SodaPop Web page for full path to SAS library).