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Data

The Data section of the website offers an extensive amount of information on the data instruments used in the study. The following data resources are available on this website:

  • The Data Center is the project’s data repository.  Here you will find how Fast Track data were received, processed, analyzed, documented, archived, and disseminated.  The Data Center is also responsible for processing requests from national and international researchers.
  • The Data Collection Description section offers information on the conceptual framework, how to use the data catalog, and how to cite information from the study.
  • The Data Collection History section describes each study year including the age of participants, school grade, school calendar year for each cohort, and the approximate data collection period for each cohort.
  • The Instrument Administration History is a historical timeline of the study years an instrument was administered to each cohort. The instrument name links directly to individual instrument pages describing its source, variable definitions, response values, scaling procedures, characteristics of the resulting scales, technical information and reports.
  • The Data Instruments section provides an alphabetical listing of each instrument used in the study. The instrument name links directly to individual instrument pages describing its source, variable definitions, response values, scaling procedures, characteristics of the resulting scales, technical information and reports.