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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