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Challenges and Solutions to Conducting Intensive Studies in Early Care and Education Settings
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Challenges and Solutions to Conducting Intensive Studies in Early Care and Education Settings

OPRE Brief 2020-96
Published: Aug 29, 2020
Publisher: Washington, DC: Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, US. Department of Health and Human Services
Human Services Early Childhood Child Development Quality Measurement

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Julia Lyskawa

Gretchen Kirby

Pia Caronongan

Annalee Kelly

Andrew Burwick

The Assessing the Implementation and Cost of High Quality Early Care and Education (ECE-ICHQ) project recruited and collected data from ECE centers as part of a five-year measures development project. This brief presents lessons learned from the ECE-ICHQ project that could prove useful in addressing challenges when conducting qualitative research, cost analysis, and self-reported data collection with staff in center-based settings.

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