The final spring 2015 parent-survey pilot collected 253 parent responses across seven school-based and nine center-based Chicago preschool sites, in English and Spanish¶

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q2 i? In the final spring 2015 pilot, the parent survey was administered on-site in seven school-based and nine center-based preschool sites, with 253 parents responding (139 in English and 114 in Spanish); 81 percent completed it online using tablets. → Ehrlich 2016

Evidence¶

Ehrlich 2016¶

Ehrlich, S.B., Pacchiano, D.M., Stein, A.G., & Luppescu, S. (2016). Essential organizational supports for early education: The development of a new survey tool to measure organizational conditions. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Consortium on School Research and the Ounce of Prevention Fund. http://consortium.uchicago.edu/surveys

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Field pilot of the parent survey conducted May-June 2015 by data-collection teams visiting sites, with Qualtrics online administration on tablets and paper-pencil backups. Surveys took parents between 10-20 minutes to complete on average.

"There were 253 parents who responded to the survey (139 in English and 114 in Spanish, evenly distributed over school- and center-based sites); 81 percent were completed online using tablets with the remaining filled out using paper-pencil versions"

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