Site-level pre-k attendance in the validation sample averaged 85.2 percent and varied widely across sites¶

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Currency · newest study 2018 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2021: local conditions change quickly

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Modeled site-level attendance rates across the 81 validation sites ranged from 67.4 percent to 94.1 percent, averaging 85.2 percent (SD = 7.1 percent). → Ehrlich 2018

Evidence¶

Ehrlich 2018¶

Ehrlich, S.B., Pacchiano, D.M., Stein, A.G., Wagner, M.R., Luppescu, S., Park, S., Frank, E., Lewandowski, H., & Young, C. (2018). Organizing early education for improvement: Testing a new survey tool. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Consortium on School Research and the Ounce of Prevention Fund. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/organizing-early-education-improvement-testing-new-survey-tool

q2 · i? · associational · r1

Descriptive analysis of 2015-16 attendance records from CPS and DFSS for 9,094 enrolled preschool students, about 60 percent from school-based and 40 percent from community-based sites. "Modeled estimates of site -level attendance ranged from 67.4 percent to 94.1 percent"; the intra-class correlation for attendance was 0.374. No inferential test was reported.

"Modeled estimates of site -level attendance ranged from 67.4 percent to 94.1 percent, with an average of 85.2 percent (SD = 7.1 percent)."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• The validation study sample comprised 81 Chicago ECE sites with high teacher and parent survey response rates — related
• The Early Education Essentials is sensitive to site-level differences — a broader claim this one bears on