Should families whose incomes exceed the Head Start income eligibility requirement be submitted as a subgroup?
We will not form subgroups for families who are over income. Since no more than 10 percent of the EHS program enrollment can be families who are over the income eligibility requirement, we recommend recruiting less than 10 percent to prevent having more of these families selected into the program group than the comparison group. C. MAINTAINING THE RESEARCH SAMPLE 1. After programs have filled all of their slots, it is likely that a few families will leave the program. If a family leaves the program, what procedures should be followed to fill the vacancy? Programs should submit applicants for random assignment whenever a vacancy occurs, until the maximum research sample size has been reached. Applicants (whether newly recruited or from a waiting list) should be sent to MPR only when the program has an opening. For every one opening, the program can send from one to ‘a few’ applicants for random assignment (except for the Utah program, which must send an even number of applicants). Since
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