Creating a Nationally Representative Survey Panel of Public School Pre-K Teachers

David Grant, Anna Shapiro, Elizabeth D. Steiner, Joshua Eagan, Dorothy Seaman, Cyril Cherian, Gerald P. Hunter, Ashley Woo, Jill S. Cannon, Christopher Joseph Doss, et al.

ResearchPublished Apr 9, 2025

In spring 2024, the Gates Foundation sponsored the recruitment of public school pre-kindergarten (pre-K) teachers to RAND’s American Teacher Panel (ATP), an online survey panel of approximately 27,000 U.S. public school teachers that had previously covered teachers in kindergarten through 12th grade.

In this short report, the authors describe details of the pre-K teacher recruitment effort. They discuss the sample, recruitment methods, recruitment results, and approach to weighting surveys conducted with pre-K panel members.

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Grant, David, Anna Shapiro, Elizabeth D. Steiner, Joshua Eagan, Dorothy Seaman, Cyril Cherian, Gerald P. Hunter, Ashley Woo, Jill S. Cannon, Christopher Joseph Doss, and Lynn A. Karoly, Creating a Nationally Representative Survey Panel of Public School Pre-K Teachers, RAND Corporation, RR-A3279-1, 2025. As of April 30, 2025: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA3279-1.html

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Grant, David, Anna Shapiro, Elizabeth D. Steiner, Joshua Eagan, Dorothy Seaman, Cyril Cherian, Gerald P. Hunter, Ashley Woo, Jill S. Cannon, Christopher Joseph Doss, and Lynn A. Karoly, Creating a Nationally Representative Survey Panel of Public School Pre-K Teachers. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2025. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA3279-1.html.
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