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CCDBG Implementation Research and Evaluation Planning Grants FY2016 - Phase I/Cohort I.

This research brief summarizes the measures used in Quality Rating and Improvement Systems validation studies...

This white paper addresses the 2018 revision of the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC). Federal statistical agencies use the SOC to classify workers and jobs into occupational categories. ACF’s proposals in this paper include changes to the titles, definitions, and placement of the occupations involving the early childhood care and education (ECCE) workforce....

This Overview of Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV) grantee-led evaluations provides a synthesis of the opportunity these evaluations provide to expand the knowledge base on home visiting implementation and effectiveness. The overview describes the importance of grantee-led evaluations in answering questions of interest to states and learning about home visiting implementation in diverse contexts...

The Federal Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) is a primary source of assistance helping low-income parents pay…

This brief uses new, nationally representative data from The National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) —funded by the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) in the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services—to describe critical elements in the decision-making process of parents and other caregivers regarding the non-parental care of infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. 

Respondents (usually parents) in...

This brief highlights advantages, disadvantages, and potential research uses of four publicly available datasets...

This brief highlights the lack of consistent findings regarding subsidy duration in existing studies, resulting from...

More than half of states now have Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) in some stage of development…

This Issue Brief draws on a review of the literature on QRSs, as well as the proceedings of three meetings convened by…