Submission for OMB Review; Assessing the Implementation and Cost of High Quality Early Care and Education: Field Test (0970-0499), 48934-48935 [2019-20115]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and
Families
Submission for OMB Review;
Assessing the Implementation and
Cost of High Quality Early Care and
Education: Field Test (0970–0499)
Office of Planning, Research,
and Evaluation, Administration for
Children and Families, HHS.
ACTION: Request for public comment.
AGENCY:
This information request is
part of the project, Assessing the
Implementation and Cost of High
SUMMARY:
Quality Early Care and Education (ECE–
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.
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.
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: The Administration for
Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S.
Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) seeks approval to collect
new information to use in testing
measures of the implementation and
costs of high quality early care and
education. This information collection
is part of the project, Assessing the
ADDRESSES:
Implementation and Cost of High
Quality Early Care and Education (ECE–
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
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
Number of
respondents
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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) .........................
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Number of
responses
per
respondent
Average
burden
hours per
response
Total
burden hours
800
75
1
1
.33
.33
264
25
100
1
.50
50
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ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES—Continued
Average
burden
hours per
response
Total
burden hours
Implementation interview protocol:
Center director ..........................................................................................
Additional center staff ...............................................................................
Electronic cost workbook .................................................................................
Staff rosters for time use survey .....................................................................
Time-use survey ..............................................................................................
Classroom rosters for observations .................................................................
80
20
80
80
1,120
80
1
1
1
1
1
1
3
3
8
.25
.25
.50
240
60
640
20
280
40
Total Burden .............................................................................................
........................
........................
........................
1,619
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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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Submission for OMB Review; Assessing the Implementation and Cost
of High Quality Early Care and Education: Field Test (0970-0499)
AGENCY: Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration
for Children and Families, HHS.
ACTION: Request for public comment.
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SUMMARY: This information request is part of the project, Assessing the
Implementation and Cost of High Quality Early Care and Education (ECE-
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.
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 emailing
[email protected]. 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: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) seeks approval
to collect new information to use in testing measures of the
implementation and costs of high quality early care and education. This
information collection is part of the project, Assessing the
Implementation and Cost of High Quality Early Care and Education (ECE-
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 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
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Number of Average
Instrument Number of responses per burden hours Total burden
respondents respondent per response hours
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Center recruitment call (to gain participation;
assumes outreach to 10 centers for every 1
center needed):
Center director............................. 800 1 .33 264
Umbrella organization administrator......... 75 1 .33 25
Center engagement call (to gather basic 100 1 .50 50
characteristics and plan steps for
participation; assumes 20% may withdraw after
this step).....................................
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Implementation interview protocol:
Center director............................. 80 1 3 240
Additional center staff..................... 20 1 3 60
Electronic cost workbook........................ 80 1 8 640
Staff rosters for time use survey............... 80 1 .25 20
Time-use survey................................. 1,120 1 .25 280
Classroom rosters for observations.............. 80 1 .50 40
---------------------------------------------------------------
Total Burden................................ .............. .............. .............. 1,619
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Authority: Social Security Act Sec. 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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