Kathy Hebbeler, ECO at SRI Lynne Kahn, ECO at FPG Christina Kasprzak, ECO at FPG Cornelia Taylor, ECO at SRI Lauren Barton, ECO at SRI National Picture –Child Outcomes for Early Intervention and Preschool Special Education: Implications and Use DEC Conference, San Francisco, CA October, 2013
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Kathy Hebbeler, ECO at SRILynne Kahn, ECO at FPG
Christina Kasprzak, ECO at FPGCornelia Taylor, ECO at SRILauren Barton, ECO at SRI
National Picture –Child Outcomes for Early Intervention and Preschool Special Education: Implications and Use
DEC Conference, San Francisco, CAOctober, 2013
Overview
• 2011-2012 national numbers • Trends for the last 4 years• State approaches and data quality
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Ultimate Goal for EI and ECSE
“To enable young children to be active and successful participants during the early childhood years and in the future in a variety of settings – in their homes with their families, in child care, preschool or school programs, and in the community.”
Based on the ECO stakeholder process when identifying 3 functional outcomes
3Early Childhood Outcomes Center
Entire document available at http://projects.fpg.unc.edu/~eco/assets/pdfs/ECO_Outcomes_4-13-05.pdf
Functional outcomes: • Refer to using skills to accomplish things that
are meaningful to the child in the context of everyday life
• Refer to an integrated series of behaviors or skills that allow the child to achieve the important everyday goals
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Early Childhood Outcomes Center
Children Have Positive Social Relationships
• Involves:– Relating with adults– Relating with other children– For older children, following rules related to groups or
interacting with others• Includes areas like:
– Attachment/separation/autonomy– Expressing emotions and feelings– Learning social rules and expectations– Social interactions and play
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Early Childhood Outcomes Center
Children Acquire and Use Knowledge and Skills
• Involves:– Thinking– Reasoning– Remembering– Problem solving– Using symbols and language– Understanding physical and social worlds
• Includes:– Early concepts—symbols, pictures, numbers, classification,
spatial relationships– Imitation– Object permanence– Expressive and receptive language and communication– Early literacy
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Early Childhood Outcomes Center
Children Take Appropriate Action to Meet Their Needs
• Involves:– Taking care of basic needs– Getting from place to place– Using tools (e.g., fork, toothbrush, crayon)– In older children, contributing to their own health and
safety• Includes:
– Integrating motor skills to complete tasks– Self-help skills (e.g., dressing, feeding, grooming,
toileting, household responsibility)– Acting on the world to get what one wants
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Early Childhood Outcomes Center
OSEP Reporting CategoriesPercentage of children who:
a.Did not improve functioningb. Improved functioning, but not sufficient to move
nearer to functioning comparable to same-aged peers
c. Improved functioning to a level nearer to same-aged peers but did not reach it
d. Improved functioning to reach a level comparable to same-aged peers
e. Maintained functioning at a level comparable to same-aged peers3 outcomes x 5 “measures” = 15 numbers
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Illustration of 5 Possible Paths
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Age in Months
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Maintained functioning comparable to age peers
Achieved functioning comparable to age peers
Moved nearer functioning comparable to age peers
Made progress; no change in trajectory
Did not make progress
The Summary Statements
1. Of those children who entered or exited the
program below age expectations in each outcome,
the percent who substantially increased their rate of
growth by the time they turned 3 [6] years of age or
exited the program.
2. The percent of children who were functioning within
age expectations in each outcome by the time they
turned 3 [6] years of age or exited the program.13Early Childhood Outcomes Center
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Approach Part C
(N=56)
Preschool
(N=59)
COS 7 pt. scale
42/56 (75%) 37/59 (63%)
One tool statewide
8/56 (14%) 9/59 (15%)
Publishers’ online analysis
1/56 (2%) 6/59 (10%)
Other 5/56 (9%) 7/59 (12%)
State Approaches to Measuring Child Outcomes – 2011-12
3 Methods Methods for Calculating National Estimates
1. All states averaged (each state weighted as 1)
2. All states weighted by child count
3. States with the highest quality data weighted by child count to represent all states*
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*The data we will be presenting for the national picture
Identifying States with Quality Data
Criteria for high quality data:• Reporting data on enough children
– Part C – 28% or more of exiters– Preschool – 12% or more of child count
• Within expected patterns in the data– category ‘a’ not greater than 10% – category ‘e’ not greater than 65%
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Number of States that Met Criteria for Inclusion in the National Analysis
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08-09 09-10 10-11 11-12
Part C 19 29 39 33
Preschool 15 33 36 39
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social relationships knowledge and skills action to meet needs0
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Part C: Greater than Expected GrowthTrends Across 4 Years
• Consistent data over time• Increasing number of children in the child
outcomes data• Increasing number of states in the ‘quality’
data for child outcomes
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Current Emphasis
• Data Quality– Increasing the number of children/families in the data– Pattern checking to identify data quality issues– Training, guidance, supervision, etc.
• Use of Data for Program Improvement– Linking data to other data– Interpreting data at the state and local levels– Making plans for improving systems and services