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EDCP Options Document: Overall Strategy Template

I. Introduction to the project

• History of the EDCP
  • Benefits
  • Challenges
• EDCP Purpose/Goals
  • Options Document
  • Memoranda for public-use data sets and key elements to report
• Name the ACF evaluations that form basis of the project
• Explanation of Options Document layout/strategy
  • Name domains
  • Name constructs
  • Brief discussion of how arrived at those domains and constructs
  • Somehow discuss what this document is not? (I'm thinking here about things like only 1 construct per domain; not at the measurement module level, etc.) [Mainly noting this is not an exhaustive list]
• Explanation of Memoranda (separate from this document)
• Definition of key terms (evaluation, study, survey, domain, construct, measure, scale, subscale, index, item, etc.)

II. Descriptions of the Nine ACF Experimental and Non-experimental Studies Appropriate to our Domains

(Note: Lead organization for developing description in parentheses)

1. Rural Welfare to Work Strategies (AIR)
2. Enhanced Services for the Hard to Employ (AIR)
3. Employment Retention and Advancement Project (AIR)
4. Building Strong Families (AIR)
5. National Head Start Impact Study (AIR)
6. Early Head Start Tracking Pre-K (AIR)
7. Head Start FACES (AIR)
8. Evaluation of Child Care Subsidy Strategies (AIR)
9. National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (AIR)
   • Study/Evaluation Descriptions and Survey/Measure Descriptions
     • Use Background Information Template (separate document)

III. Descriptions of Additional Data Collection Efforts Relevant to Project Goals (Note: Some of these are surveys, and others are studies with surveys embedded within them. Be sure to describe both the study/evaluation and the survey/measure where applicable)

Note: Lead organization for developing description in parentheses

1. Child Development Supplement to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (Child Trends)
2. National Survey of American Families (Child Trends)
3. National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 (Child Trends)
4. National Survey of Adolescent Health (Add Health) (Child Trends)
5. National Survey of Children’s Health (SLAITS) (Child Trends)
6. Fragile Families (Child Trends)
7. NICHD Study of Early Child Care (Child Trends)
8. Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, K and B (AIR)
9. National Household Education Survey (AIR)
10. Current Population Survey (AIR)
11. Survey of Income and Program Participation (AIR)
12. National Study of Low-Income Child Care (AIR)
13. National Child Care Staffing Study (AIR)
    • Study/Evaluation Descriptions and/or Survey/Measure Descriptions
      • Use Background Information Template (separate document)

IV. Domain: Children’s Socio-emotional Development

• Construct: Internalizing/Externalizing Behavior Problems
  1. Appropriate surveys/measures from the 9 ACF evaluations
  2. Appropriate additional surveys, most likely:
     1. Child Development Supplement to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics
     2. National Survey of America’s Families
     3. Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, K and B
     4. National Survey of Adolescent Health (Add Health)
     5. National Household Education Survey
     6. National Survey of Children’s Health, part of CDC’s State and Local Integrated Telephone Survey (SLAITS) [if available]
     7. National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997
     8. Fragile Families i. NICHD Study of Early Child Care
     9. National Study of Low-Income Child Care
     10. National Child Care Staffing Study

V. Domain: Parenting

• Construct: Parental Monitoring/Awareness
  1. Appropriate surveys/measures from the 9 ACF evaluations
  2. Appropriate additional surveys, most likely:
     1. National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997
     2. National Survey of Adolescent Health (Add Health)
     3. National Household Education Survey
     4. Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), Child Supplement
     5. Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, K and B
     6. Fragile Families
     7. NICHD Study of Early Child Care
     8. National Study of Low-Income Child Care
     9. National Child Care Staffing Study

VI. Domain: Child Care

• Construct: Child Care Quality
1. Appropriate surveys/measures from the 9 ACF evaluations
2. Appropriate additional surveys, most likely:
   1. National Child Care Staffing Study
   2. Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, K and B
   3. Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), Child Supplement
   4. Current Population Survey
   5. Survey of Income and Program Participation
   6. National Survey of America’s Families
   7. National Household Education Survey
   8. Possibly others that are already under review for other constructs

VII. Domain: Economic well-being

• Constructs: Income and Earnings
  1. Appropriate surveys/measures from the 9 ACF evaluations
  2. Appropriate additional surveys, most likely:
     1. Panel Study of Income Dynamics
     2. National Household Education Survey
     3. Current Population Survey
     4. National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997
     5. Survey of Income and Program Participation
     6. National Survey of America's Families
     7. Possibly others that are already under review for other constructs.

VIII. Appendices

1. Items
   • Place the items within the options document if that was manageable, and use a web-link if there are too many items to place in the options document.
2. Useful Methodological Papers
   • Include papers that might be useful (only include those easily found; i.e., this is a secondary goal)

 

 

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