SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- Design and Collection of the First and Second Grade Waves of Early Childhood Longitudinal Study - Kindergarten Class of 2010-2011 - Draft PWS
- Notice Date
- 4/13/2010
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541720
— Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities
- Contracting Office
- Department of Education, Contracts & Acquisitions Management, Contracts (All ED Components), 550 12th Street, SW, 7th Floor, Washington, District of Columbia, 20202
- ZIP Code
- 20202
- Solicitation Number
- ED-IES-10-R-0028
- Archive Date
- 6/16/2010
- Point of Contact
- Pamela a Bone, Phone: 202-245-6181, Sylvia K. Reid, Phone: 202-245-6214
- E-Mail Address
-
pamela.bone@ed.gov, sylvia.reid@ed.gov
(pamela.bone@ed.gov, sylvia.reid@ed.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Draft Performance Work Statement The US Department of Education anticipates the release of the subject solicitation on or about April 28, 2010. The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) at the U.S. Department of Education (ED) has a requirement to design and conduct data collections for the first and second grade years of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 2010-11. The main purpose of this evaluation is to yield policy-relevant information by 1) providing current data on kindergarteners and their progress through the elementary grades, 2) providing data relevant to emerging policy-related domains not fully measured in the prior datasets, and 3) allowing for cross-cohort comparisons of the educational experiences of children attending school before and after the advent of new federal laws and policies. The period of performance is 54 months. The following summarizes the primary activities covered by this performance work statement (PWS): 1) recruit students, families, and schools in order to continue following the progress of the cohort as it moves from kindergarten through first and second grade; 2) finish developing a parent, teacher, and school administrator questionnaire for the first grade collection, and develop parent, teacher, and school administrator questionnaires for second grade; 3) field test the nonassessment instruments; 4) plan and conduct the first and second grade (spring 2012 and spring 2013) data collections; 5) create data files and documentation for the kindergarten through second-grade data; and 6) update child locating information (e.g. home address and telephone number, last school attended) annually to allow students to be traced over time. The ECLS-K:2011 will collect data about the child and the child's school, classroom, teacher, and family. These data shall be collected directly from the child, the child's parents/guardians, teachers, and school administrators. In the kindergarten year, data also will be collected from children's regular before- and after-school care providers. The ECLS-K:2011 will directly assess children in reading, mathematics, and executive functioning, as well as measure height and weight. The inclusion of a direct science assessment is being evaluated for the kindergarten through second grade waves of the study. Science assessments will become part of the core study starting in third grade if they cannot be included in the earlier collections. The methods of data collection will include computer assisted 2-stage adaptive testing of children to allow comparability with ECLS-K:1998-99, paper and pencil questionnaires, and computer assisted telephone and in-person interviews (CAI). The ECLS-K:2011 begins with a cohort of kindergartners (and their parents, teachers, and schools) as they start school in the fall of 2010. A follow-up data collection will occur for the cohort at the end of the kindergarten school year, in the spring of 2011. A subsample of the cohort will be re-contacted in the fall of 2011 as they enter first grade. Re-contacts with the full sample will occur every spring thereafter through 2016, when most of the cohort will be completing fifth grade. This contract, the second of the ECLS-K:2011 contracts, focuses on the national data collection for the springs of the first- and second-grade years. Apart from fielding the first- and second-grade collections, this contract also covers the release of the resulting data. In addition, this contract includes work to field test parent, teacher, and school administrator questionnaires for the first and second grade collections. It also includes work to track children from kindergarten into first grade and from first grade into second grade. There are several options to the contract including an option for a fall second grade data collection and an option for state sample augmentation. Work from the first ECLS-K:2011 contract will necessarily play a central role in this, the second ECLS-K:2011 contract. As noted, the first contract focused on collecting data from the cohort during their kindergarten year (2010-11), the fall of their first grade year (fall 2011), and the design and evaluation of reading, math, and science assessments for the cohort's kindergarten-, first grade-, and second grade-years. Drafts of the first grade parent, teacher, and school administrator questionnaires are also currently under development. As such, items for the academic assessments for the first and second grade collections, and drafts of the parent, teacher, and school administrator first grade instruments will be provided to the contractor by NCES at the outset of this, the second ECLS-K:2011 contract. The contractor will need to finalize the first-grade parent, teacher, and school administrator instruments and field test them, and also fully develop the second grade parent, teacher, and school administrator instruments including field testing. The contractor shall employ procedures, instruments, and questionnaire items similar to those used in the ECLS-K:1998-99, the ECLS-B, and the kindergarten collections of the ECLS-K:2011, with updates as necessary. Information about these studies can be found on the NCES web site at http://nces.ed.gov/ecls. All activities under this contract shall be completed and delivered within 54 months of the award date. The base contract is for 54 months, there are eleven options at ED's discretion that will not extend the contract.
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