Submission for OMB Review; Assessing the Implementation and Cost of High-Quality Early Care and Education: Field Test, OMB 0970-0499
| Published date | 02 July 2021 |
| Citation | 86 FR 35301 |
| Record Number | 2021-14148 |
| Section | Notices |
| Court | Children And Families Administration |
Federal Register, Volume 86 Issue 125 (Friday, July 2, 2021)
[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 125 (Friday, July 2, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35301-35302]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-14148]
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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, OMB 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: 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 as part of the project,
Assessing the Implementation and Cost of High-Quality Early Care and
Education (ECE-ICHQ). The study received approval for a field test to
validate and improve the psychometric properties of these measures in
November 2019. This request is to add a measure to the approved field
test to help further assess the associations between measures of
implementation, cost, and quality.
DATES: Comments due within 30 days of publication. OMB must make a
decision about 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 within 30 days of publication of
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or using the search function.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: ACF seeks approval to collect new information to use
in testing measures of the implementation and costs of high-quality
early care and education as part of the ECE-ICHQ
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project. 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 study received approval for a field
test to validate and improve the psychometric properties of these
measures in November 2019. For all previously approved materials for
this study, see https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAOMBHistory?ombControlNumber=0970-0499. This request is to add a
measure to the approved field test to help further assess the
associations between measures of implementation, cost, and quality. The
field test and this additional measure will include only remote data
collection.
Respondents: Teachers and aids.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Number of
Number of responses per Avg. burden Total/annual
Instrument respondents respondent per response burden (in
(total over (total over (in hours) hours)
request period) request period)
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Center re-engagement call and roster update 80 1 .50 40
for teaching staff survey..................
Teaching staff survey....................... 1,120 1 .50 560
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 600.
Authority: Sec. 658O(a)(5) as amended by the CCDBG Act of 2014
Sec. 9.
Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2021-14148 Filed 7-1-21; 8:45 am]
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