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Advanced
Training Institute Sorts the Data! With the generous support of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), APA organized this ATI to help investigators learn the intricacies of performing secondary data analysis, using the large longitudinal dataset from the ongoing Study of Early Child Care (SECC) as an example. Research Triangle Institute, a primary contractor in building this dataset for NICHD, partnered with APA in organizing the ATI. The SECC data are from 1,364 families, followed since their infants'
birth in 1991. The study covers demographic, family, maternal, paternal and
caregiver characteristics; child social and emotional outcomes; language development;
cognitive skills; school readiness; growth and health measures, and much more.
It includes data collected by observation, testing, and face-to-face and phone
interviews. This ATI was designed to introduce the SECC study and its available
databases (currently from birth through the third year of school) so that researchers
may independently use and train others to use the NICHD databases for original
scholarship and publication. Among the individuals in attendance were Ty Partridge
and Jennifer DeGroot Hanawalt from Wayne State University in Detroit. When asked
to comment on the ATI, here is what they said: “The quality level of this ATI exceeded my expectations. The most impressive aspect of the training institute was the supporting material. Overall, the ATI was valuable to researchers who had a wide range of experience with secondary data, large databases, and statistics. I was fortunate to have the graduate student coordinator of my lab, Jennifer DeGroot Hanawalt, attend this training institute as well. “It is clear that countless hours of work and exceptional foresight went into the documentation of this dataset. Now rather than spending six-months to a year trying to understand the data well enough to address even basics questions, we have been able to begin analyses on several projects that will be in the manuscript phase by the end of the semester. This research can be integrated with a cadre of interdisciplinary prevention, intervention and research efforts organized into a comprehensive program referred to as the Wayne State University Children’s Bridge program.” Jennifer DeGroot Hanawalt Applications for the 2004 ATI on using the SECC data will be available in Spring 2004. Visit www.apa.org/science/ati-info.html for more information. Return to Psychological Science Agenda Homepage |
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