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From left, Amanda Prokasky, MAP Academy senior research specialist, and Lorey Wheeler, MAP Academy director, are developing a data coordination center to provide methodological and analytic support to multiple universities.
Head Start University Partnership Workforce Well-Being Data Coordination Center
Research Team
Principal Investigator: Amanda Prokasky
Co-Principal Investigators: Lorey Wheeler
Funding Information
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services—Administration for Children and Families
Award Date: Feb 5, 2025
End Date: Feb 1, 2026
Abstract
This project is designed to develop an Head Start University Partnership: Early Childhood Education Workforce Well-Being data coordination center that will provide methodological and analytic support to facilitate cross-site analyses and dissemination efforts of the consortium.
Researchers' preliminary activities will support future analyses and dissemination, including:
- Conversations with grantees and federal staff to identify research questions best addressed by merged data;
- Craft data sharing agreements as needed to merge data across all six projects, including obtaining IRB approval to share project-specific data with the data center and from the data center to the other projects;
- Development of cross-team decision-making procedures and guidelines regarding priorities, analytic approaches and authorship;
- Development of file-sharing protocols and all activities required to create high-quality, secure, merged datasets for analyses;
- Development of a common codebook of measures collected by at least four of the six teams that includes collection forms, scoring guidelines, norms and reliability coefficients;
- Development of analytic plans for analyses of cross-project data; and
- Conducting preliminary outreach to the Child and Family Data Archive at the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) regarding archiving of the merged dataset(s).
Research, Measurement and Evaluation Methods, Early Childhood Education and Development
From left, Amanda Prokasky, MAP Academy senior research specialist, and Lorey Wheeler, MAP Academy director, are developing a data coordination center to provide methodological and analytic support to multiple universities.