TY - JOUR
T1 - The Early Head Start Father Studies
T2 - Design, Data Collection, and Summary of Father Presence in the Lives of Infants and Toddlers
AU - Boller, Kimberly
AU - Bradley, Robert
AU - Cabrera, Natasha
AU - Raikes, Helen
AU - Pan, Barbara
AU - Shears, Jeffrey
AU - Roggman, Lori
N1 - Funding Information:
In sum, Early Head Start Father Studies originated in the context of the national program evaluation and its accompanying research agenda. Funding for this effort was provided by the ACYF of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, and the Ford Foundation. Members of the Early Head Start national evaluation study team were joined by representatives from each of these funding agencies in helping to direct the father studies embedded in the larger evaluation study.
Funding Information:
This article is based on work funded at least in part with Federal funds from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Specifically, the work described in this article and in other articles included in this Special Issue was conducted as part of the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project funded by the ACF, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, under contract 105–95–1936 to Mathematica Policy Research, Princeton, NJ, and Columbia University’s National Center for Children and Families, Teachers College, in conjunction with the Early Head Start Research Consortium. The Consortium consists of representatives from 17 programs participating in the evaluation, 15 local research teams, the evaluation contractors, and ACF. Research institutions in the Consortium (and principal researchers for conducting the research through 36 months of age) include ACF (Rachel Chazan Cohen, Judith Jerald, Esther Kresh, Helen H. Raikes, and Louisa Tarullo); Catholic University of America (Michaela Farber, Harriet Liebow, Nancy Taylor, Elizabeth Timberlake, and Shavaun Wall); Columbia University (Lisa Berlin, Christy Brady-Smith, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, and Allison Sidle Fuligni); Harvard University (Catherine Ayoub, Barbara Alexander Pan, and Catherine Snow); Iowa State University (Dee Draper, Gayle Luze, Susan McBride, and Carla Peterson); Mathematica Policy Research (Kimberly Boller, Jill Constantine, Ellen Eliason Kisker, John M. Love, Diane Paulsell, Christine Ross, Peter Schochet, Cheri Vogel, and Welmoet van Kammen); Medical University of South Carolina (Richard Faldowski, Gui-Young Hong, and Susan Pickrel); Michigan State University (Hiram Fitzgerald, Tom Reischl, and Rachel Schiffman); New York University (Mark Spellmann and Catherine Tamis-LeMonda); University of Arkansas (Robert Bradley, Richard Clubb, Andrea Hart, Mark Swanson, and Leanne Whiteside-Mansell); University of California, Los Angeles (Carollee Howes and Claire Hamilton); University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (Robert Emde, Jon Korfmacher, JoAnn Robinson, Paul Spicer, and Norman Watt); University of Kansas (Jane Atwater, Judith Carta, and Jean Ann Summers); University of Missouri – Columbia (Mark Fine, Jean Ispa, and Kathy Thornburg); University of Pittsburgh (Beth Green, Carol McAllister, and Robert McCall); University of Washington School of Education (Edu-ardo Armijo and Joseph Stowitschek); University of Washington School of Nursing (Kathryn Barnard and Susan Spieker); and Utah State University (Lisa Boyce, Gina Cook, Catherine Callow-Heusser, and Lori Roggman).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2006, Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2006/5/1
Y1 - 2006/5/1
N2 - In this introductory article to the Special Issue, we provide an overview of the research and policy context for the Early Head Start Father Studies. We describe the methods used to conduct the father studies, which began in 1997 and were designed to complement the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project, a random assignment evaluation of 3,001 families - half who received Early Head Start services and half who did not. The Early Head Start Father Studies included in the Special Issue addressed 5 key research questions about low-income fathers and their children (all under 3 years old) using a variety of data collection approaches, including mother report, father report, father - child videotaped interactions, and Early Head Start program staff report. Here we describe the father studies' methods and response rates, father demographics, and father - child relationship status.
AB - In this introductory article to the Special Issue, we provide an overview of the research and policy context for the Early Head Start Father Studies. We describe the methods used to conduct the father studies, which began in 1997 and were designed to complement the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project, a random assignment evaluation of 3,001 families - half who received Early Head Start services and half who did not. The Early Head Start Father Studies included in the Special Issue addressed 5 key research questions about low-income fathers and their children (all under 3 years old) using a variety of data collection approaches, including mother report, father report, father - child videotaped interactions, and Early Head Start program staff report. Here we describe the father studies' methods and response rates, father demographics, and father - child relationship status.
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U2 - 10.1080/15295192.2006.9681302
DO - 10.1080/15295192.2006.9681302
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85047868384
SN - 1529-5192
VL - 6
SP - 117
EP - 143
JO - Parenting
JF - Parenting
IS - 2-3
ER -