Child Care Policy Research Partnerships (CCPRP-2019) Community of Practice (CoP) No-Cost Extension Year Evaluation

OMB Control Number: 0970-0401; Expiration Date: 05/31/2027

Child Care Policy Research Partnerships (CCPRP-2019) Community of Practice (CoP) No-Cost Extension Year Evaluation Form

The purpose of this voluntary information collection is to solicit feedback from participants of Community of Practice (CoP) meetings run by the Center to Support Research and Evaluation Capacity of CCDF Lead Agencies (CSRE). The participants are ACF grant team members participating in the Community of Practice (CoP) which aims to support cross-project collaborations and advance research evidence. Participant feedback will be collected during or after a CoP meeting with a link to an online survey.

Questions

Please complete this survey to help us evaluate the no-cost extension year of the 2019 Child Care Policy Research Partnerships Community of Practice (CoP) meetings. Please give feedback on CoP Meetings from October 2023 to July 2024 (and the planned meeting in September 2024).

This feedback will help us understand your experiences and will be used to improve supports for future Communities of Practice when grant recipients are in a no-cost extension year. This survey will take about 5 minutes to complete. 

Each member of your team is invited to complete the evaluation. Please complete and submit today, or no later than MONTH DAY, 2024. Once you start the survey you may come back to it until that date.

Please select a number to indicate whether you agree or disagree with each statement.

N/A = Not Applicable

1= Strongly Disagree

2=Disagree

3= Neither Agree Nor Disagree

4=Agree

5=Strongly Agree

		Strongly-------------Strongly Disagree Agree
The opportunity to share key takeaways with my peers was valuable.	N/A	1	2	3	4	5
The opportunity to hear the findings of other grant teams was valuable.	N/A	1	2	3	4	5
I was comfortable asking questions & contributing to the discussion.	N/A	1	2	3	4	5
I will be able to apply what I learned in these meetings to my work.	N/A	1	2	3	4	5
As a whole, the CoP meetings from October 2023 to July 2024 were a good use of my time.	N/A	1	2	3	4	5
I preferred sharing findings over the course of the year instead of having a final one-day in-person meeting to share findings.	N/A	1	2	3	4	5
The opportunity to share findings with OCC was valuable.	N/A	1	2	3	4	5
I had the supports I needed to share findings with OCC.	N/A	1	2	3	4	5
It was useful to share findings twice, once with OCC and once with peers in the CoP	N/A	1	2	3	4	5

10. If you disagreed (2) or strongly disagreed (1) with any statements, please briefly explain further.
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Please indicate if you would have preferred to spend less time, about the same amount of time, or more time on each of the following:

Peer presentations (15 minutes)	N/A	Less Time	About the same	More Time
Q&A following the peer presentations (10 minutes)	N/A	Less Time	About the same	More Time

13. How frequently do you think a CoP should meet in a no-cost extension year following the end of their regular grant?

1. Monthly

2. Bimonthly

3. Quarterly

4. Other (Fill in the blank)

14. Are there activities other than sharing findings that you would have found helpful during your no-cost extension year (October 2023-September 2024)?

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15. Did fewer members of your team attend the CoPs during the no-cost extension year than in previous years? If so, why?

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16. In the past five years, what activity (ex. teams sharing findings, expert speakers, breakout groups, etc.) was most meaningful to you as you reflect on your own professional development or advancing thinking for the grant? And, why was this most helpful to you?
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17. In the past five years, what supports or resources were most valuable for helping to amplify dissemination of your team’s findings? And, why were these valuable?

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18. What could the CSRE have done to better support your project’s dissemination efforts?

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19. What additional comments would you like to share with the CSRE or OPRE about your experience with the FY2019 CCPRP Community of Practice? Our goal is to make these CoPs valuable and effective. Please feel free to share any candid reflections that could improve our future approaches.
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20. What is your role on your grant team?

1. Researcher - Principal Investigator (PI) or Co-Investigator (Co-PI)

2. Researcher – Team member

3. CCDF Lead Agency partner

Thank you for taking the time to complete the survey. You are always welcome to share any additional reflections on your experience directly with Sarah Blankenship at OPRE (Sarah.Blankenship@acf.hhs.gov).

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT OF 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13) STATEMENT OF PUBLIC BURDEN: The purpose of this information collection is to help ACF understand grant recipient preferences for future meetings and other supports. Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 5 minutes per respondent, including the time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and reviewing the collection of information. This is a voluntary collection of information. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information subject to the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. The OMB # is 0970-0401 and the expiration date is 05/31/2027. If you have any comments on this collection of information, please contact Teresa Derrick-Mills at tderrick-mills@urban.org.