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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)
- Rural Welfare to Work Strategies (AIR)
- Enhanced Services for the Hard to Employ (AIR)
- Employment Retention and Advancement Project (AIR)
- Building Strong Families (AIR)
- National Head Start Impact Study (AIR)
- Early Head Start Tracking Pre-K (AIR)
- Head Start FACES (AIR)
- Evaluation of Child Care Subsidy Strategies (AIR)
- National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (AIR)
- Study/Evaluation Descriptions and Survey/Measure Descriptions
- Use Background Information Template (separate document)
- Study/Evaluation Descriptions and Survey/Measure Descriptions
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
- Child Development Supplement to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (Child Trends)
- National Survey of American Families (Child Trends)
- National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 (Child Trends)
- National Survey of Adolescent Health (Add Health) (Child Trends)
- National Survey of Children’s Health (SLAITS) (Child Trends)
- Fragile Families (Child Trends)
- NICHD Study of Early Child Care (Child Trends)
- Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, K and B (AIR)
- National Household Education Survey (AIR)
- Current Population Survey (AIR)
- Survey of Income and Program Participation (AIR)
- National Study of Low-Income Child Care (AIR)
- National Child Care Staffing Study (AIR)
- Study/Evaluation Descriptions and/or Survey/Measure Descriptions
- Use Background Information Template (separate document)
- Study/Evaluation Descriptions and/or Survey/Measure Descriptions
IV. Domain: Children’s Socio-emotional Development
- Construct: Internalizing/Externalizing Behavior Problems
- Appropriate surveys/measures from the 9 ACF evaluations
- Appropriate additional surveys, most likely:
- Child Development Supplement to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics
- National Survey of America’s Families
- Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, K and B
- National Survey of Adolescent Health (Add Health)
- National Household Education Survey
- National Survey of Children’s Health, part of CDC’s State and Local Integrated Telephone Survey (SLAITS) [if available]
- National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997
- Fragile Families i. NICHD Study of Early Child Care
- National Study of Low-Income Child Care
- National Child Care Staffing Study
V. Domain: Parenting
- Construct: Parental Monitoring/Awareness
- Appropriate surveys/measures from the 9 ACF evaluations
- Appropriate additional surveys, most likely:
- National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997
- National Survey of Adolescent Health (Add Health)
- National Household Education Survey
- Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), Child Supplement
- Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, K and B
- Fragile Families
- NICHD Study of Early Child Care
- National Study of Low-Income Child Care
- National Child Care Staffing Study
VI. Domain: Child Care
- Construct: Child Care Quality
- Appropriate surveys/measures from the 9 ACF evaluations
- Appropriate additional surveys, most likely:
- National Child Care Staffing Study
- Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, K and B
- Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), Child Supplement
- Current Population Survey
- Survey of Income and Program Participation
- National Survey of America’s Families
- National Household Education Survey
- Possibly others that are already under review for other constructs
VII. Domain: Economic well-being
- Constructs: Income and Earnings
- Appropriate surveys/measures from the 9 ACF evaluations
- Appropriate additional surveys, most likely:
- Panel Study of Income Dynamics
- National Household Education Survey
- Current Population Survey
- National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997
- Survey of Income and Program Participation
- National Survey of America's Families
- Possibly others that are already under review for other constructs.
VIII. Appendices
- 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.
- 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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