Notice2021-17260
Submission for OMB Review; Early Care and Education Leadership Study (ExCELS) Descriptive Study (New Collection)
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Published
August 12, 2021
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Health and Human Services DepartmentChildren and Families Administration
Abstract
The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) seeks approval to collect information for the Early Care and Education Leadership Study (ExCELS) Descriptive Study.
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 153 (Thursday, August 12, 2021)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-17260]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Submission for OMB Review; Early Care and Education Leadership
Study (ExCELS) Descriptive Study (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 Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) within
the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) seeks approval to
collect information for the Early Care and Education Leadership Study
(ExCELS) Descriptive Study.
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 <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this particular
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: The ExCELS Descriptive Study is a new information
collection to learn about what leadership looks like in center-based
early care and education settings serving children whose ages range
from birth to age 5, but not yet in kindergarten, and better understand
how leadership might improve center quality and outcomes for staff,
children, and families. The goals of ExCELS are to (1) develop a short-
form measure of early care and education leadership that has strong
psychometric properties, and (2) examine empirical support for the
associations among key constructs and outcomes in the study's theory of
change of early care and education leadership for quality improvement.
The study will recruit 120 centers that receive funding from Head Start
or the Child Care and Development Fund, ask the primary site leader at
the centers to participate in two interviews, and distribute surveys to
select center managers and all teaching staff to test hypothesized
associations between leadership constructs and outcomes in the study's
theory of change.
Respondents: Management and teaching staff from center-based early
care and education settings that receive funding from Head Start or the
Child Care and Development Fund.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Number of
Number of responses per
respondents respondent Avg. burden Total burden Annual burden
Instrument (total over (total over per response (in hours) (in hours)
request request (in hours)
period) period)
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Center recruitment call script.. 180 1 .33 59 30
Umbrella organization 113 1 .33 37 19
recruitment approval call
script.........................
Engagement interview guide...... 150 1 .33 50 25
Staffing structure and 120 1 .50 60 30
leadership positions interview
guide..........................
Teaching staff roster........... 120 1 .25 30 15
Center manager survey........... 240 1 .42 101 51
Teaching staff survey........... 1,680 1 1 1,680 840
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,010.
Authority: Authorized by the Head Start Act section 640 [42 U.S.C.
9835] and section 649 [42 U.S.C. 9844]; appropriated by the Continuing
Appropriations Act of 2019; the Child Care and Development Block Grant
Act of 1990 section 658O [42 U.S.C. 9858], which also provides
authority to use this discretionary funding for research; appropriated
by the Continuing Appropriations Act of 2019; and the Child Care and
Development Block Grant (CCDBG) Act of 1990 as amended by the CCDBG Act
of 2014 (Pub. L. 113-186).
Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2021-17260 Filed 8-11-21; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4184-22-P
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