This ICR is approved on the understanding that: (1) All identifiable data--including videotapes--will be maintained by the contractor, and ACF will not own and will not be able to retrieve identifiable data; (2) The incentives for the teacher survey will be a flat $20 for the first round. In subsequent rounds, a higher, differential incentive may be considered if a study about the effects of such differential incentives on response rates is built into the study design; (2a)If ACF chooses to explore differential incentives in subsequent rounds of this study, ACF will submit a change-request to OMB outlining the study design before implementing such differential incentives; (3)
All letters to parents and children will be corrected, as necessary, to indicate that parents will receive $30 for their participation and children will receive $10; (4)
The instructions on the teacher survey will be changed to inform respondents that they may (and are encouraged) to complete this survey online; (5)if data will or might be shared with anyone outside of the research team for this particular project, all informed consent forms and invitation letters which say that Âinformation will not be shared with anybody or Âinformation will not be shared with anybody outside the research team will be changed to say Âinformation will be used only for research purposes"; (6) ACF will email OMB a copy of all revised materials--ICs, supplemental information, and supporting information--within 2 months of this approval.
Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
01/31/2010
36 Months From Approved
3,800
0
0
2,153
0
0
0
0
0
This study is being conducted to assess children and families when the children in the study will be 5th graders or attending the 6th year of their formal schooling. Because of the way children and families were initially recruited for the study, it will take three years to collect 5th-grade data from the full sample of children. About 30 percent of the sample will be 5th graders in spring 2007, 50 percent in spring 2008, and 20 percent in spring 2009. Data will be collected on a sample of approximately 1,900 children and families across all 17 of the Early Head Start research sites. Data collection will include a child assessment and a child interview, an interview with the child's primary caregiver (usually the child's mother), videotaping of mother-child interactions and a set of home observations, and a questionnaire to be completed by the child's 5th-grade teacher.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
Form 0 Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project: 5th Grade Follow-Up
Revised OMB package 9-6-06-FINAL.pdf
Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project: 5th Grade Follow-Up