This public version of the kindergarten-fourth grade user's manual focuses on the fourth-grade round of data collection and data for the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 2010-11 (ECLS-K:2011). It describes the study instruments and data collection procedures used in the spring 2015 collection. It also describes the kindergarten-fourth grade data file structure and variables created from data collected in the fourth-grade round, as well as procedures used to make the data suitable for public release.
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