American Institutes for Research,
Evaluation of First 5 Family Literacy Initiative (AIR)
Timeline
2003-2009
Research Questions
Research Questions
- What happens in family literacy programs?
- What do family literacy programs look like across a number of different types of programs? What do parents learn in family literacy programs about helping their children learn?
- What do children learn in family literacy programs and does it help them in kindergarten?
Project Support
First 5 LA
American Institutes for Research
First 5 LA
American Institutes for Research
Project Summary
The Center for Improving Child Care Quality (CICCQ) is working with the American Institutes for Research (AIR) to conduct a study of family literacy programs supported by First 5 LA. This project is designed to measure children’s learning over time in family literacy programs. An initiative gave grants to 15 individual family literacy programs and funded the Family Literacy Support Network (FLSN) to provide training and technical assistance to these programs. AIR is conducting an evaluation of the overall initiative including an implementation/process evaluation. CICCQ is helping AIR with an impact study that specifically focuses on children’s developmental outcomes. Data include child assessments, teacher questionnaires, parent interviews, and observations of children in the child care programs.
From 2003 to 2006 we conducted a 3-year longitudinal study of children’s learning through the end of kindergarten. The current study uses a shorter-term design linking program observations with children’s outcomes at the end of the program.
