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ICHQ). The project’s goal is to create a
technically sound and feasible
instrument that will provide consistent,
systematic measures of the
implementation and costs of education
and care in center-based settings that
serve children from birth to age 5. The
resulting measures will inform research,
policy, and practice by improving
understanding of variations in what
centers do to support quality, their
associated costs, and how resources for
ECE may be better aligned with
expectations for quality. The goals of the
study are (1) to test and refine a data
collection approach to gather
information about implementation
activities and costs of key functions
within ECE centers and (2) to develop
new measures of implementation and
costs for use together in understanding
ways to support quality. The study has
completed two phases of data collection
to develop the data collection tools and
measures. The study team collected data
through on-site visits to 15 centers as
part of an initial phase of data collection
to pre-test information collections (data
collected under clearance #0970–0355).
A second phase (OMB #0970–0499)
relied on remote data collection through
an electronic cost workbook, telephone
interviews, and web-based surveys to
gather information from 30 centers in
three states to develop preliminary
measures of implementation and cost
Number of
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Instrument
Center recruitment call (to gain participation; assumes outreach to 10 centers for every 1 center needed):
Center director ..........................................................................................
Umbrella organization administrator .........................................................
Center engagement call (to gather basic characteristics and plan steps for
participation; assumes 20% may withdraw after this step) .........................
Implementation interview protocol:
Center director ..........................................................................................
Additional center staff ...............................................................................
Electronic cost workbook .................................................................................
Staff rosters for time use survey .....................................................................
Time-use survey ..............................................................................................
Classroom rosters for observations .................................................................
Total Burden .............................................................................................
Comments: The Department
specifically requests comments on (a)
whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the
information shall have practical utility;
(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate
of the burden of the proposed collection
of information; (c) the quality, utility,
and clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including through the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology. Consideration will be given
to comments and suggestions submitted
within 60 days of this publication.
Authority: Social Security Act § 418
as extended by the Continuing
Appropriations Act of 2017 and the
TANF Extension Act of 2019.
Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
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100
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.50
50
80
20
80
80
1,120
80
1
1
1
1
1
1
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.25
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Submission for OMB Review; Survey
of Head Start Grantees on Training and
Technical Assistance (New Collection)
Office of Planning, Research,
and Evaluation; Administration for
Children and Families; HHS.
ACTION: Request for public comment.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Administration for
Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S.
Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) seeks approval to
conduct a statistically representative
survey of directors and managers/
coordinators from Head Start grantee
organizations regarding their access to
and use of training and technical
assistance (T/TA) from multiple
sources, including ACF’s Early
Childhood Training and Technical
Assistance system. The purpose of the
data collection is to inform ACF on
three aspects of grantee directors and
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and further reduced and refined the data
collection tools.
This proposed new information
collection is focused on a field test of
the measures to assess the psychometric
properties of the implementation
measures and to examine the
associations between measures of
implementation, cost, and quality. The
field test will include a mix of remote
and on-site data collection.
Respondents: ECE site administrators
or center directors, program directors,
education specialists, financial
managers or accountants, teachers, and
aides.
Annual Burden Estimates:
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managers/coordinators T/TA
experience: (1) Search and selection of
T/TA; (2) receipt of T/TA; (3) and
potential relationships between T/TA
received and perceived change in
practice.
DATES: Comments due within 30 days of
publication. OMB is required to make a
decision concerning the collection of
information between 30 and 60 days
after publication of this document in the
Federal Register. Therefore, a comment
is best assured of having its full effect
if OMB receives it within 30 days of
publication.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
directly to the following: Office of
Management and Budget, Paperwork
Reduction Project, Email: OIRA_
SUBMISSION@OMB.EOP.GOV, Attn:
Desk Officer for the Administration for
Children and Families.
Copies of the proposed collection may
be obtained by writing to the
Administration for Children and
Families, Office of Planning, Research
and Evaluation, 330 C Street SW,
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Washington, DC 20201, Attn: OPRE
Reports Clearance Officer. All requests
should be identified by the title of the
information collection. Email address:
OPREinfocollection@acf.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: The Head Start Directors
Wave 1 survey addresses the grantee’s
organizational characteristics, how the
organization defines and diffuses T/TA,
T/TA received and requested in the
prior program year, and overall
organizational goals and reflections on
T/TA efforts for the current year. The
Head Start Managers/Coordinators Wave
2 survey addresses four distinct
domains of Head Start activity: (1)
Program management and fiscal
operations; (2) education; (3) parent and
family engagement; and (4) health and
wellness. The Wave 2 survey addresses
how these activity domains are
structured and staffed with the grantee
organization, the types of T/TA and
resources sought and used to improve
practice in each domain, perceptions of
usefulness of recent T/TA received, and
T/TA priorities for the next program
year.
Respondents: Head Start Directors,
Head Start Managers/Coordinators.
ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES
Total/annual
number of
respondents
Instrument
Wave 1 Head Start Director Survey ................................................................
Wave 2 Head Start Managers/Coordinator Survey .........................................
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 1,544.
Authority: The Statutory Authority for
this data collection is: Section
640(a)(2)(D) and section 649 of the
Improving Head Start for School
Readiness Act of 2007.
Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and
Families
Submission for OMB Review;
Formative Data Collections for ACF
Program Support (New Collection)
Office of Planning, Research,
and Evaluation, Administration for
Children and Families, HHS.
ACTION: Request for public comment.
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AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Office of Planning,
Research, and Evaluation (OPRE), in the
Administration for Children and
Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS)
intends to request approval from the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for a generic clearance to
conduct a variety of formative data
collections with more than nine
respondents. These information
collections would not be highly
systematic or intended to be statistically
representative or otherwise
generalizable. ACF programs promote
the economic and social well-being of
families, children, individuals and
communities. Many ACF program
offices need to learn more about funded
program services so that an
understanding of program or grantee
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processes and potential for
improvements can inform ACF
decision-making and program support.
Information collected under this generic
would help address these needs.
DATES: Comments due within 30 days of
publication. OMB is required to make a
decision concerning the collection of
information between 30 and 60 days
after publication of this document in the
Federal Register. Therefore, a comment
is best assured of having its full effect
if OMB receives it within 30 days of
publication.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
directly to the following: Office of
Management and Budget, Paperwork
Reduction Project, Email: OIRA_
SUBMISSION@OMB.EOP.GOV, Attn:
Desk Officer for the Administration for
Children and Families.
Copies of the proposed collection may
be obtained by emailing
OPREinfocollection@acf.hhs.gov.
Alternatively, copies can also be
obtained by writing to the
Administration for Children and
Families, Office of Planning, Research,
and Evaluation, 330 C Street SW,
Washington, DC 20201, Attn: OPRE
Reports Clearance Officer. All requests,
emailed or written, should be identified
by the title of the information collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: Information gathering for
program support was originally
described under the Formative Data
Collections for ACF Research Generic
Clearance (0970–0356), but is now being
requested as a stand-alone generic
clearance. A 60-day comment period
was provided as part of the approval
process for #0970–0356, which included
description of information collections
for program support. We are now
providing a 30-day comment period
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644
specific to this generic clearance for
program support.
The goals of the generic information
collections under this approval are to
obtain information about program and
grantee processes or needs, and to
inform the following types of activities,
among others:
• Delivery of targeted assistance and
workflows related to program
implementation or the development or
refinement of program and grantee
processes, and the development and
refinement of recordkeeping and
communication systems.
• Planning for provision of
programmatic or evaluation-related
training or technical assistance (T/TA).
• Obtaining grantee or other
stakeholder input on the development
of program performance measures.
• Use of rapid-cycle testing activities
to strengthen programs in preparation
for summative evaluation.
• Development of learning agendas
and research priorities.
ACF envisions using a variety of
techniques such as semi-structured
discussions, focus groups, surveys,
templates, open-ended requests, and
telephone or in-person interviews, in
order to reach these goals.
Following standard OMB
requirements, OPRE will submit a
change request for each individual data
collection activity under this generic
clearance. Each request will include the
individual instrument(s), a justification
specific to the individual information
collection, and any supplementary
documents. OMB should review
requests within 10 days of submission.
Respondents: Example respondents
include: current or prospective service
providers, training or technical
assistance (T/TA) providers, grantees,
contractors, current and potential
participants in ACF programs or similar
comparison groups, experts in fields
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Submission for OMB Review; Survey of Head Start Grantees on
Training and Technical Assistance (New Collection)
AGENCY: Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation; Administration
for Children and Families; HHS.
ACTION: Request for public comment.
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SUMMARY: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) seeks approval to conduct
a statistically representative survey of directors and managers/
coordinators from Head Start grantee organizations regarding their
access to and use of training and technical assistance (T/TA) from
multiple sources, including ACF's Early Childhood Training and
Technical Assistance system. The purpose of the data collection is to
inform ACF on three aspects of grantee directors and managers/
coordinators T/TA experience: (1) Search and selection of T/TA; (2)
receipt of T/TA; (3) and potential relationships between T/TA received
and perceived change in practice.
DATES: Comments due within 30 days of publication. OMB is required to
make a decision concerning the collection of information between 30 and
60 days after publication of this document in the Federal Register.
Therefore, a comment is best assured of having its full effect if OMB
receives it within 30 days of publication.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent directly to the following: Office
of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project, Email:
[email protected], Attn: Desk Officer for the Administration
for Children and Families.
Copies of the proposed collection may be obtained by writing to the
Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research
and Evaluation, 330 C Street SW,
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Washington, DC 20201, Attn: OPRE Reports Clearance Officer. All
requests should be identified by the title of the information
collection. Email address: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: The Head Start Directors Wave 1 survey addresses the
grantee's organizational characteristics, how the organization defines
and diffuses T/TA, T/TA received and requested in the prior program
year, and overall organizational goals and reflections on T/TA efforts
for the current year. The Head Start Managers/Coordinators Wave 2
survey addresses four distinct domains of Head Start activity: (1)
Program management and fiscal operations; (2) education; (3) parent and
family engagement; and (4) health and wellness. The Wave 2 survey
addresses how these activity domains are structured and staffed with
the grantee organization, the types of T/TA and resources sought and
used to improve practice in each domain, perceptions of usefulness of
recent T/TA received, and T/TA priorities for the next program year.
Respondents: Head Start Directors, Head Start Managers/
Coordinators.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Total/annual Number of Average burden
Instrument number of responses per hours per Annual burden
respondents respondent response hours
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Wave 1 Head Start Director Survey............... 1,200 1 .75 900
Wave 2 Head Start Managers/Coordinator Survey... 860 1 .75 644
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,544.
Authority: The Statutory Authority for this data collection is:
Section 640(a)(2)(D) and section 649 of the Improving Head Start for
School Readiness Act of 2007.
Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
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