[Federal Register: August 18, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 160)]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
Title: Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project: 5th-Grade
follow-Up.
OMB No.: 0970-0143.
Description: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is requesting
comments on plans to collect 5th-grade follow-up data on children
recruited into the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation study. 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.
This data collection is necessitated by the mandates of the 1998
reauthorization of Head Start (Head Start Act, as amended, October 27,
1998, Section 649 (d) and (e)).
Respondents: Individuals or households.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Number of Average
Instrument Number of responses per burden hours Total burden
respondents respondent per response hours
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Year 1 (2007):
Parent Interview............................ 570 1 1.00 570
Child Assessment............................ 570 1 1.16 661
Child Interview............................. 570 1 0.25 143
Mother-Child Interaction.................... 1,140 1 0.25 285
Teacher Questionnaire....................... 570 1 0.50 285
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Year 1 Total............................ 3,420 .............. .............. 1,944
Year 2 (2008):
Parent Interview............................ 950 1 1.00 950
Child Assessment............................ 950 1 1.16 1,102
Child Interview............................. 950 1 0.25 238
Mother-Child Interaction.................... 1,900 1 0.25 475
Teacher Questionnaire....................... 950 1 0.50 475
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Year 2 Total............................ 5,700 .............. .............. 3,240
Year 3 (2009)
Parent Interview............................ 380 1 1.00 380
Child Assessment............................ 380 1 1.16 441
Child Interview............................. 380 1 0.25 95
Mother-Child Interaction.................... 760 1 0.25 190
Teacher Questionnaire....................... 380 1 0.50 190
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Year 3 Total............................ 2,280 .............. .............. 1,296
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Estimated Total Burden Hours: 6,480.
Additional Information: Copies of the proposed collection may be
obtained by writing to the Administration for Children and Families,
Office of Administration, Office of Information Services, 370 L'Enfant
Promenade, SW., Washington, DC 20447, Attn: ACF Reports Clearance
Officer. All requests should be identified by the title of the
information collection. E-mail address: infocollection@acf.hhs.gov.
OMB Comment: OMB is required to make a decision concerning 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. Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent directly to the following: Office
of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reducing Project, 725 17th Street,
NW., Washington, DC 20503, attn: Desk Officer for ACF, e-mail address:
Katherine_T._Astrich@omb.eop.gov.
Dated: August 14, 2006.
Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
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