| Source |
Survey
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| Title |
Self-administered Test of Adult Basic Education
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| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
2,322 teen mothers.
Sample of all recruited eligibles.
Collected prior to random assignment and 18 months after assignment.
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| Sites |
All sites.
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| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
Fielded sample number not reported.
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| Additional Execution Notes |
No notes reported.
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| Source |
Survey
|
| Title |
In-person New Chance Enrollment Form, including information about prior education, training, and work experience; welfare history; family composition; living arrangements; and psychological well-being
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| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
2,322 teen mothers.
Sample of all recruited eligibles.
Collected prior to random assignment and 18 months after assignment.
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| Sites |
All sites.
|
| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
Fielded sample number not reported.
|
| Additional Execution Notes |
No notes reported.
|
| |
| Source |
Survey
|
| Title |
Self-administered staff survey
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| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
124 program staff members.
Sample of all program staff.
Collected approximately one year after initial program implementation.
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| Sites |
All sites.
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| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
Reported response rate:
85%.
|
| Additional Execution Notes |
No notes reported.
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| |
| Source |
Field Research
|
| Title |
Follow-up interviews/observations
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| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
738 program participants (follow-up for four months).
369 program participants from four month sample (follow-up for eight months).
Sample of enrolled participants.
Collected during first four months and eight months after random assignment.
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| Sites |
All sites.
|
| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
All participants sampled.
Response rate not reported.
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| Additional Execution Notes |
No notes reported.
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| |
| Source |
Field Research
|
| Title |
Observations and site visits
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| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
Site visits, observations, site documents, site memoranda obtained from all members of program group.
Data collected about every three months to a site.
|
| Sites |
All sites.
|
| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
Fielded sample number not reported.
|
| Additional Execution Notes |
No notes reported.
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| |
| Source |
Survey
|
| Title |
In-person 18-month survey
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| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
2,088 teen mothers.
Sample of all program and control group members (1,408 experimental, 680 control).
Collected 18 months after random assignment.
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| Sites |
All sites.
|
| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
Reported response rate:
91.4% program
89.3% control
|
| Additional Execution Notes |
No notes reported.
|
| |
| Source |
Survey
|
| Title |
In-person 42-month survey
|
| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
2,079 teen mothers.
Sample of all program and control group members (1,401 experimental, 678 control).
Collected 42 months after random assignment.
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| Sites |
Chula Vista, California
Inglewood, California
San Jose, California
Denver, Colorado
Jacksonville, Florida
Chicago Heights, Illinois
Lexington, Kentucky
Detroit, Michigan
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Bronx, New York
Harlem, New York
Portland, Oregon
Salem, Oregon
Allentown, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
Reported response rate:
91.4% program
89.2% control
|
| Additional Execution Notes |
No notes reported.
|
| |
| Source |
Interview
|
| Title |
Semi-structured wrap-up interviews
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| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
16 Program coordinators (1 per site).
Data collection schedule not reported.
|
| Sites |
All sites.
|
| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
Reported response rate:
100%
|
| Additional Execution Notes |
Person most interested in program was targeted.
All who were interviewed were judged to be the person most knowledgeable about the program.
Information included key issues involved in running the program and ways they would change the program model.
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| |
| Source |
Direct observations of child interactions
|
| Title |
Videotapes of mother-child interaction
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| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
290 families drawn from participants in New Chance Demonstration.
Sample must have a "focal child" between 30 and 60 months old, be African American or white, be from selected study site during selected observation period, and have completed 18-month interview.
Collected 21 months after enrollment in the demonstration.
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| Sites |
The Bronx, New York
Detroit, Oregon
Harlem, New York
Lexington, Kentucky
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Portland, Oregon
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| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
Reported response rate: 79%.
|
| Additional Execution Notes |
No notes reported.
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