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Childhood and Beyond, 1986-1995: Documentation

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Childhood and Beyond, 1986-1995: Documentation
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/T1QCQQ
 
Creator Eccles Jacquelynne S.
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description This study is not yet available for use



The purpose of this study is to gain an understanding of the development and socialization of children's self-perceptions, task values, and activity choices. Childhood and Beyond is a large-scale, cross-sequential, longitudinal study of development in four primarily white, lower-middle- to middle-class school districts in Midwestern urban/suburban communities, begun in 1986. The study began with groups of children in kindergarten, first, and third grade. Many issues were studied, including children's achievement self-perceptions in various domains and the roles that parents and teachers play in socializing these beliefs. Parent involvement in their children's education was also explored.




The original sample included 875 children, their parents, and teachers from 10 schools in 4 school districts in Southeastern Michigan. Seventy-nine percent of the sample agreed to participate in the study, which began in 1987. In Year 1 (1987), parents and teachers provided basic information on the children and the children took a school-administered test of cognitive abilities. In Years 2 to 4 (1988 to 1990), data were collected from children, teachers, parents, and school records. During Year 5 (1994), all children from the original sample were re-contacted and 82% of the original sample participated in another wave of data collection. Data collection has continued through two years post-high school.




The Murray Research Archive holds numeric file data and selected questionnaire pages with open-ended responses from entire sample.
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Type longitudinal