APPENDIX B KEY INFORMANT INTERVIEW PROTOCOL AND CODEBOOK This Appendix details the interview protocol for the ECCS CoIIN Key Informant Interviews as well as the analytic codebook at the end of this section.
Interview Protocol for ECCS CoIIN Key Informant Interviews Introduction: Thank you for taking time out of your day to speak with me. My name is [name] and I am a member of NICHQ’s Department of Applied Research and Evaluation (DARE). As you know, NICHQ is leading the overall evaluation of the Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems CoIIN Initiative. Our evaluation is focusing on understanding your progress, successes, and challenges as part of the ECCS CoIIN project across the following areas: partnerships, policies, early childhood systems capacity, state and local connections, measurement, and improvement and sustainability. Your perspective will help us evaluate, suggest changes, and make recommendations to strengthen the efforts to enhance early childhood systems and increase age-appropriate developmental skills among three-year-old children during and after the initiative. The results from this study will be shared in a report and used to teach others.
Procedures: We are interested in learning about your experiences participating in ECCS CoIIN. You are being asked to participate in a 45 minute to one-hour interview to share your experiences and perceptions of activities in the ECCS CoIIN. All interviews will be conducted virtually on the Zoom platform. With your permission, we will audio-record and take notes during this interview.
Risks: We do not anticipate any risks associated with participating in the study. If any question asked makes you uncomfortable, you are always free to decline to answer or discontinue participation at any time.
Benefits: Participating in this study will give you an opportunity to add your ideas and opinions to recommendations around improving Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems.
Confidentiality: The researchers for this study will protect the confidentiality of whatever you share with them, and no identifying information will be released to anyone. Outside of NICHQ staff, only the Allendale Investigational Review Board of RTA Inc. or the FDA can access this confidential information. Information from this study will be used for research purposes and may be published; however, your name will not be used in any publications. Any interview audio-recordings will be destroyed after the final report is written. The IRB may decide to review the records made during this study.
Compensation: There is no compensation for participating in this study.
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