Early Care and Education Leadership Study: Descriptive Study

Completed

Conditions studied: Leadership in Early Care and Education Centers

In brief

Mathematica and the Institute for Early Education Leadership and Innovation at the University of Massachusetts Boston, conducted a descriptive study within the Early Care and Education Leadership Study (ExCELS). ExCELS is funded by the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation within the Administration for Children and Families in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The goal of the descriptive study is to develop a new measure of early care and education (ECE) leadership that has strong psychometric properties and examines associations among key constructs and outcomes on how ECE leadership could support quality improvements. In early 2022, the study team recruited 132 ECE centers serving children whose ages range from birth to age 5 (but who are not yet in kindergarten) and supported by Head Start grants or Child Care Development Fund subsidies. In spring 2022, the study team conducted phone interviews to collect center characteristics and learn about the center's staffing structure and leadership positions, and distributed surveys to center managers and teaching staff in recruited centers.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT05258994

Run by

Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

People needed

1164

Starts

2022-03-04

Expected to finish

2023-09-15

Last updated by the study team

2023-09-18

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Early care and education (ECE) centers serving children whose ages range from birth to age 5, not yet in kindergarten, who are supported by Head Start or Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) subsidies. A center is defined as a specific physical location where ECE is delivered to children whose ages range from birth to age 5 (not yet in kindergarten) with at least two classrooms.

You may not qualify if…

• Classrooms operated by public schools
• Centers offering less than four hours of early childcare education each day
• Drop-in child care settings

Where it is running

• Mathematica — Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States

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