Title page
Contents
Acknowledgments 4
Introduction 7
Selected Findings 8
References 13
Appendix A. Survey Methodology and Glossary 15
Appendix B. Standard Error Tables 26
Table 1. Percentage distribution of children who were in kindergarten for the first time in the 2010–11 school year and in fifth grade in the spring of 2016, by child and family characteristics: Spring 2016 9
Table 2. Mean reading scale scores for children who were in kindergarten for the first time in the 2010–11 school year and in fifth grade in the spring of 2016, by child and family characteristics: Fall 2010,... 10
Table 3. Mean math scale scores for children who were in kindergarten for the first time in the 2010–11 school year and in fifth grade in the spring of 2016, by child and family characteristics: Fall 2010,... 11
Table 4. Mean science scale scores for children who were in kindergarten for the first time in the 2010–11 school year and in fifth grade in the spring of 2016, by child and family characteristics: Spring 2011,... 12
Table A-1. Weighted child assessment unit response rates and overall response rates, by round of data collection: Fall 2010 and spring 2011, spring 2012, spring 2013, spring 2014, spring 2015, and spring 2016 17
Table A-2. Characteristics of reading, math, and science IRT scale scores for children who were in kindergarten for the first time in the 2010–11 school year and in fifth grade in the spring of 2016: Fall 2010,... 23
Table B-1. Standard errors for table 1: Percentage distribution of children who were in kindergarten for the first time in the 2010–11 school year and in fifth grade in the spring of 2016, by child and family characteristics:... 27
Table B-2. Standard errors for table 2: Mean reading scale scores for children who were in kindergarten for the first time in the 2010–11 school year and in fifth grade in the spring of 2016, by child and family characteristics:... 28
Table B-3. Standard errors for table 3: Mean math scale scores for children who were in kindergarten for the first time in the 2010–11 school year and in fifth grade in the spring of 2016, by child and family characteristics:... 29
Table B-4. Standard errors for table 4: Mean science scale scores for children who were in kindergarten for the first time in the 2010–11 school year and in fifth grade in the spring of 2016, by child and family characteristics:... 30