[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 241 (Friday, December 16, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 77123-77125]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-27241]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Submission for Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Review;
Culture of Continuous Learning Project: Case Study of a Breakthrough
Series Collaborative for Improving Child Care and Head Start Quality
(New Collection)
AGENCY: Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration
for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Request for public comments.
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SUMMARY: The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE),
Administration for Child and Families (ACF) is proposing an information
collection activity for the Culture of Continuous Learning Project
(CCL). The goal of the project is to assess the feasibility of
implementing continuous quality improvement methods in early care and
education (ECE) programs and systems to support the use and
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sustainability of evidence-based practices.
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 by using the search function. You can
also obtain copies of the proposed collection of information by
emailing [email protected]. Identify all emailed requests
should be identified by the title of the information collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: The CCL project is proposing a new information
collection activity to assess the feasibility of implementing
continuous quality improvement methods in ECE programs and systems to
support the use and sustainability of evidence-based practices. Three
Breakthrough Series Collaboratives (BSCs), a specific quality
improvement model designed to support the implementation of continuous
quality improvement methods in organizations, will be implemented in
Head Start and child care settings. The BSC methodology has been
studied extensively in health care and other fields but has limited
evidence as an effective quality improvement methodology in the early
childhood field. The findings will be of broad interest to ECE programs
as well as training and technical assistance providers and researchers,
all of whom are interested in improving the quality of services young
children receive.
Head Start and child care programs that voluntarily participate in
the BSCs will be asked to complete a number of tools designed to
facilitate implementation of the BSC. The implementation of the BSCs
will be evaluated using a case study design that will involve focus
groups, interviews, surveys, and classroom observations. To fully
capture participants' experiences in the BSCs, the implementation and
evaluation instruments are designed to engage respondents one to three
times during a thirty six-month period, depending on the instrument.
The goal of the case study is to document the factors that contribute
to the feasibility of BSC implementation within a state quality
improvement system (e.g., a state quality rating and improvement
system) and/or a regional professional development or technical
assistance system (e.g., a region within a state, or a cross-state
region such as Head Start regional technical assistance areas) such
that we can refine hypotheses and study measures which will be useful
in the design of an evaluation for a future study of BSCs in ECE
systems. The case study will also help determine what additional
capacity ECE systems may need to adopt the BSC methodology and offer it
within their system at a larger scale.
Respondents: Up to 45 ECE programs will be invited to complete an
application to participate in a BSC and up to five people per program
will be involved in completing the application. Up to eight programs
will be selected to participate in one of three BSCs, for a total of up
to 24 programs. Within each program, up to seven individuals (e.g.,
directors, lead teachers, assistant teachers, teacher aides, parents,
curriculum specialists, etc.) will participate in the implementation of
the BSC, meaning that up to 168 individuals will participate.
Respondents will also include additional teachers (up to 114), program
staff (up to 96), and parents (up to 2,136) located at participating
Head Start and child care programs where a BSC is implemented but who
are not members of the BSC Team.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Number of
Number of responses per Avg. burden
Instrument respondents respondent per response Total burden Annual burden
(total over (total over (in hours) (in hours) (in hours)
request period) request period)
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BSC Implementation Instruments
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Instrument 1: BSC Selection 225 1 1.5 338 113
Application Questionnaire..
Instrument 2: Pre-Work 48 1 2 96 32
Assignment: Data Collection
Planning Worksheet.........
Instrument 3: Plan, Do, 168 34 0.25 1,428 476
Study, Act (PDSA)Form &
Tracker....................
Instrument 4: Monthly 48 8 1.5 576 192
Metrics....................
Instrument 5: Implementation 168 34 0.25 1,428 476
Discussion Forum Prompts...
Instrument 6: Learning 168 4 0.25 168 56
Session Feedback Form......
Instrument 7: Action 168 4 0.25 168 56
Planning Form..............
Instrument 8: BSC Overall 168 1 0.25 42 14
Feedback Form..............
Instrument 9: Organizational 168 5 1.5 1,260 420
Self-Assessment............
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BSC Evaluation Instruments
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Instrument 10: Key Informant 9 1 1 9 3
Interviews with BSC Faculty
Members Affiliated with the
States/Regions Discussion
Guide......................
Instrument 11: BSC 30 2 1.5 90 30
Implementation Staff and
Faculty Focus Group
Discussion Guide...........
Instrument 12: BSC 30 1 0.17 5 2
Implementation Staff and
Faculty Background Survey..
Instrument 13: Key Informant 24 2 1 48 16
Interviews with BSC Center
Administrators Discussion
Guide......................
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Instrument 14: BSC Teachers 120 2 1.5 360 120
and Support Staff Focus
Group Discussion Guide.....
Instrument 15: BSC Parent 24 2 1.5 72 24
Focus Group Discussion
Guide......................
Instrument 16: Individual 168 2 1.5 504 168
BSC Teams Focus Group
Discussion Guide...........
Instrument 17a: 24 3 0.5 36 12
Administrator Surveys......
Instrument 17b: Teacher 240 3 0.5 360 120
Surveys....................
Instrument 17c: Other Center 96 3 0.5 144 48
Staff Surveys..............
Instrument 17di: Non-BSC 2136 2 0.25 1068 356
Parent Surveys.............
Instrument 17dii: BSC Parent 24 3 0.5 36 12
Surveys....................
Instrument 18: Classroom 48 3 0.33 48 16
Observations...............
Instrument 19: 24 4 0.25 24 8
Administrative Data Survey.
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 2,770.
Authority: Head Start Act 640 [42 U.S.C. 9835] and 649 [42 U.S.C.
9844]; appropriated by the Continuing Appropriations Act of 2019. Child
Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 as amended by the CCDBG
Act of 2014 (Public Law 113186).
Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2022-27241 Filed 12-15-22; 8:45 am]
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