Reports | Measures (1) | NICHD SECCYD Site-Specific Research | Presentations | Report | Measures (2)
- Funding Phase 1-4: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
- Funding Phase 5-6: Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
The Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD) is a national longitudinal study conducted at 10 research sites from 1991 to 2008. The study was designed to examine early child care and its effects on children’s development, in particular five parameters of child care experience: age of entry into care, continuity of care, type of care, amount or quantity of care, and quality of care. Because it was a non-experimental study, the investigators adopted a broad ecological framework, considering multiple contexts of development. For this reason, the study was as much a study of the home, school, and out-of-school environments as it was a study of child care settings.
Across the 10 sites, 1,364 children and their families were enrolled in the study at birth. The children were followed through age 15 years in four study phases. In Phase I (birth to 36 months) and Phase II (37 months to Grade 1), the primary focus was on child care and the family. Phase III (Grade 2 to Grade 7) was conceptualized more broadly and focused on the interplay between early and concurrent experience in child care, in the family, in school, and in out-of-school settings, and the processes that account for varying developmental trajectories. Phase IV (Grade 8 to 15 years) focused on development in middle adolescence. Phase V was designed to follow up with the young adults as they transitioned from high school to college age (age 18), assessing their current academic achievements, work and living situation, and future career goals.Phase VI was an Age 26 follow-up assessment implemented to identify enduring effects of organized out-of-school activities on adult outcomes including educational attainment, earnings, occupation, family formation, physical and mental health, and civic engagement.
- Phase I (PDF – 100 KB) (birth through 3 years of age)
- Phase II (PDF – 85.3 KB) (54 months through 1st grade)
- Phase III (PDF – 152 KB) (2nd through 6th grades)
- Phase IV (PDF – 100 KB) (7th through 9th grades)
NICHD SECCYD Site-Specific Research
Deborah Lowe Vandell and Kim Pierce, now at the University of California, Irvine, led the University of Wisconsin-Madison site of the NICHD SECCYD. Each research site had opportunities to supplement the common protocol with measures of particular interest to the research team at that site. A chart of the site-specific measures collected at the University of Wisconsin-Madison site, and when they were administered, can be viewed by clicking HERE. The individual measures and associated documentation appear below.
- Presentations
- Reports
- Measures
- Questionnaires
- Interviews
- Live Ratings
- Interactions
- Videotaped Procedures
- Other
Vandell, D. L., Burchinal, M., Friedman, S., & Brownell, C. (2001, April). Overview of early child care effects at 4.5 years. In J. Belsky (Chair), Early child care and children’s development prior to school entry. Symposium conducted at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN. [Powerpoint]
Vandell, D. L., Pierce, K. M., Booth, C. L., Belsky, J., Clarke-Stewart, K. A., Owen, M. T., et al. (2003, April). Are child developmental outcomes related to before- and after-school care arrangements? In D. L. Vandell (Chair), After-school care during middle childhood: Self-care, structured activities, and formal programs. Symposium conducted at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, FL. [PDF Powerpoint] [PDF Notes]
Vandell, D. L. (2003, December). Early childhood education: The research evidence. A presentation to the Governor’s Task Force on Improving K-12 Education, Madison, WI. [PDF Powerpoint]
Vandell, D. L., Pierce, K. M., & Lee, D. (2005, April). Quality of relationships with after-school program staff and child developmental outcomes. In J. L. Mahoney & D. L. Vandell (Chairs), Features of after-school programs that promote development: Type, quality, and content. Symposium conducted at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, GA. [PDF Powerpoint] [PDF Notes]
Vandell, D. L., Burchinal, M. R., Belsky, J., Owen, M. T., Friedman, S. L., Clarke-Stewart, K. A., McCartney, K., & Weinbraub, M. (2005, April). Early child care and children’s development in the primary grades: Follow-up results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care. In M. R. Burchinal (Chair), Early child care and children’s development in the primary grades: Results from three large longitudinal studies. Symposium presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, GA. [PDF Powerpoint] [PDF Notes]
Pierce, K. M., Lee, D., & Vandell, D. L. (2007, March-April). Extracurricular participation and academic outcomes in the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development. In L. M. Malone (Chair), Learning outside of elementary school: A longitudinal look at extracurricular participation and achievement. Symposium conducted at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA. [PDF Powerpoint] [PDF Notes]
Vandell, D. L., & Wolfe, B. (2000). Child care quality: Does it matter and does it need to be improved? Washington, DC: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Also available as (Special Report No. 78). University of Wisconsin-Madison, Institute for Research on Poverty. [PDF Paper]
Each research site had opportunities to supplement the common protocol with measures of particular interest to the research team at that site. A chart of the site-specific measures collected at the University of Wisconsin-Madison site, and when they were administered, can be viewed by clicking HERE. The individual measures and associated documentation appear below.
- Questionnaires
- Adolescent Regulatory Focus Questionnaire [PDF measure] [PDF documentation]
- Adult Attachment Scale [PDF measure] [PDF documentation]
- Attitude toward Maternal Employment [PDF measure] [PDF documentation]
- Caregiver-Parent Partnership Scale: Parent Version [PDF measure] [PDF documentation]
- Caregiver-Parent Partnership Scale: Caregiver Version [PDF measure] [PDF documentation]
- Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale [PDF measure] [PDF documentation]
- Child Adjustment Scale [PDF measure] [PDF documentation]
- Child Management Style Scale: Parent [PDF measure]
Teacher [PDF measure] [PDF documentation] - Child Temperament Self-Report [PDF measure] [PDF documentation]
- Children’s Behavior Questionnaire: Parent Version, copyright [PDF documentation]
- Children’s Sleep Habits Questionnaire [PDF measure] [PDF documentation]
- Combining Work & Family [PDF measure] [PDF documentation]
- Couple’s Problem Inventory [PDF measure] [PDF documentation]
- Early Adolescent Temperament Q-Revised: Short Form [PDF measure] [PDF documentation]
- Early Adolescent Temperament Q-Revised: Parent Report [PDF documentation]
- Family Expressiveness Questionnaire [PDF measure] [PDF documentation]
- Family Finances [PDF measure] [PDF documentation]
- Feelings about School [PDF measure] [PDF documentation]
- First Week of Child Care for My New Baby [PDF measure] [PDF documentation]
- Generations [PDF measure] [PDF documentation]
- Information about My Parents [PDF measure] [PDF documentation]
- Love and Relationships [PDF measure] [PDF documentation]
- My Own Child Care History [PDF measure] [PDF documentation]
- My Relationship with My Father [PDF measure] [PDF documentation]
- My Relationship with My Father Growing Up [PDF measure] [PDF documentation]
- My Relationship with My Mother [PDF measure] [PDF documentation]
- My Relationship with My Mother Growing Up [PDF measure] [PDF documentation]
- My Time Spent as a Parent [PDF measure] [PDF documentation]
- PANAS: Child [PDF measure] [PDF documentation]
- PANAS: Self [PDF measure] [PDF documentation]
- Parent Role Quality Scale [PDF measure] [PDF documentation]
- Parent-Teacher Relationship Scale: Parent [PDF measure] Teacher [PDF measure] [PDF documentation]
- Parental Modernity Scale [PDF measure] [PDF documentation]
- Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale [PDF measure] [PDF documentation]
- Self-Report Family Inventory Version II [PDF measure] [PDF documentation]
- Sibling Questionnaire [PDF measure] [PDF documentation]
- Social Competence Inventory [PDF measure] [PDF documentation]
- Social Skills Strategies [PDF measure] [PDF documentation]
- Teacher-Child Rating Scale [PDF documentation]
- Toddler Behavior Assessment Q [PDF measure] [PDF documentation]
- Work and Family [PDF measure] [PDF documentation]
- Work Spillover Scale [PDF measure] [PDF documentation]
- Interviews
- Attachment Story Completion Task [PDF documentation]
- Berkeley Puppet Interview [PDF documentation]
- Emotion Understanding [PDF documentation]
- Self-Beliefs Interview: Grade 1 [PDF measure] 15 Years [PDF measure] [PDF documentation]
- Sibling Interview [PDF measure] [PDF documentation]
- Live Ratings
- Attachment To Caregiver [PDF documentation]
- Child Behavior at Child Care: Qualitative Ratings [PDF documentation]
- Child Emotionality in Lab: Qualitative Ratings [PDF documentation]
- Home Anxiety Inventory [PDF documentation]
- Mother-Child Interaction: Live Qualitative Ratings [PDF documentation]
- Stranger Episode [PDF documentation]
- Videotaped Interactions
- Carnival [PDF documentation]
- Childbirth Narrative [PDF documentation]
- Family Interaction [PDF documentation]
- Father-Child Interaction [PDF documentation]
- Marital Interaction [PDF documentation]
- Mother-Child Interaction: Challenging Activities [PDF documentation]
- Sibling Interaction [PDF documentation]
- Videotaped Procedures
- Guided Play [PDF documentation]
- Inhibition to the Unfamiliar [PDF documentation]
- Solitary Play [PDF documentation]
- Other
- Bracken Basic Concept Scale [PDF documentation]
- Maternal Stimulation of Infant Play [PDF documentation]
- Parent Language to Infant [PDF documentation]